Bogus Facebook apps could lead to Android malware

Bogus Facebook apps could lead to Android malware


Bogus Facebook apps could lead to Android malware

Posted: 21 May 2012 11:55 AM PDT

Bitdefender researchers have recently spotted something that could be the beginning of paid promotions through Facebook, and believe that the approach can very easily be used for peddling malicious mo...

Instant decryption of MS Office 2010 documents now possible

Posted: 21 May 2012 10:34 AM PDT

Passware announced Passware Kit Forensic 11.7, which includes live memory analysis and subsequent decryption of MS Word or Excel 2007-2010 files. In addition, the new version instantly decrypts PGP Wh...

Mistakes that led to the massive Utah data breach

Posted: 21 May 2012 09:16 AM PDT

A little over a month ago, the largest data breach in Utah history resulted in the compromise of Social Security numbers of some 280,000 Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Plans users and "less ...

Fake BBC website serves malware and a scam

Posted: 21 May 2012 08:02 AM PDT

Online scammers and malware peddlers know that the more afraid and desperate their targets are, the more likely it is that they will fall for their tactics, so their repeated targeting of the unemploy...

Policy-based automation of storage provisioning

Posted: 21 May 2012 07:48 AM PDT

iWave Software announced iWave Storage Automator version 6, a storage automation software product that lets enterprise IT organizations and service providers deliver Storage as a Service using their e...

Organizations struggling to enforce policies for managing records

Posted: 21 May 2012 06:25 AM PDT

Despite greater investments in their information management programs, most organizations still struggle with properly implementing those programs and getting employees to comply with them, putting the...

Fake Amex ID verification email leads to malware

Posted: 21 May 2012 06:10 AM PDT

A bogus American Express account ID verification email is currently doing rounds, trying to trick users into following the offered links: The email might look like a phishing one at first glance,...

Microsoft embraces CVRF format for its security bulletins

Posted: 21 May 2012 04:56 AM PDT

A year has passed since the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) introduced the first version of the Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework, an XML-based framework...

Cloud Security Alliance announces EMEA congress

Posted: 21 May 2012 04:24 AM PDT

Building on the success of the Cloud Security Alliance Congresses held in the USA, the inaugural CSA EMEA Congress (Amsterdam, 25-26 September 2012) will provide practical solutions for managing the t...

Fake Pinterest pages scam users

Posted: 21 May 2012 04:17 AM PDT

Pinterest continues to draw both users and scammers in search for easy targets. Trend Micro fraud analyst Paul Pajares has recently delved into the world of Pinterest scams, and has discovered a nu...

IEEE introduces standard for body area networking

Posted: 21 May 2012 04:01 AM PDT

IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, today announced a new standard, IEEE 802.15.6TM-2012, optimized to serve wireless communications needs for ultra-l...

Week in review: Vulnerable CCTV systems, Pinterest scam toolkits, and top three security concerns for CSOs and CIOs

Posted: 20 May 2012 09:00 PM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, videos and articles: IT candidates should shift career perspectives Enterprises seem to be capitalizing on the competit...

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