Spam for Dropbox users raises speculations about breach |
- Spam for Dropbox users raises speculations about breach
- Energy grids are prime attack targets
- Android malware is booming
- Fake Facebook photo tag notification leads to malware
- Firefox gains Google encrypted search by default
- WoW players targeted with in-game phishing schemes
- Cyber espionage campaign in the Middle East
- Most companies block cloud services
- Oracle releases 87 security fixes
- Rapid password cracking using Pico FPGA-based hardware
- MPs call for cyber war on Britain's cyber enemies
- Real-time IP address blocking of DDoS attacks
| Spam for Dropbox users raises speculations about breach Posted: 18 Jul 2012 10:38 AM PDT European Dropbox users have been inundated with spam advertising gambling websites, prompting speculations about a possible breach of the company's systems. The news spread on Dropbox' online for... |
| Energy grids are prime attack targets Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:50 AM PDT The electrical power grid is the backbone on which everything else depends. A cybercriminal could debilitate a major city by a single targeted attack on the energy grid and compromise anything from th... |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:31 AM PDT Trend Micro's January prediction that some 11,000 pieces of Android malware will be detected by June this year has proved completely inaccurate, as the number of malicious applications in the wild for... |
| Fake Facebook photo tag notification leads to malware Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:40 AM PDT Beware of fake Facebook emails telling you that you've been tagged in a photo, as you could easily end up infected with malware. The emails do visually resemble messages sent by the social network,... |
| Firefox gains Google encrypted search by default Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:44 AM PDT With this latest Firefox release (v14.0.1), Mozilla has fixed a slew of security vulnerabilities, including five deemed critical that may have allowed hackers to run attacker code and install software... |
| WoW players targeted with in-game phishing schemes Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:53 AM PDT It should not be a surprise that when Blizzard announced closed beta testing for Mists of Pandaria - the fourth expansion pack for the massively popular World of Warcraft online RPG - scammers were re... |
| Cyber espionage campaign in the Middle East Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:31 AM PDT Kaspersky Lab researchers announced the results of a joint-investigation with Seculert regarding Madi, an active cyber-espionage campaign targeting victims in the Middle East. Madi is a computer ne... |
| Most companies block cloud services Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:31 AM PDT While 80 percent of companies do not allow their employees to use cloud based file synchronization services, 70 percent of companies would use these services if they were as robust as internal tools, ... |
| Oracle releases 87 security fixes Posted: 17 Jul 2012 10:44 PM PDT The Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) Advisory for July 2012 contains 87 security fixes for various products across their portfolio. This advisory is a bit of déjà vu from the April 2012 advisor... |
| Rapid password cracking using Pico FPGA-based hardware Posted: 17 Jul 2012 10:30 PM PDT ElcomSoft updated two password recovery tools, employing Pico FPGA-based hardware to greatly accelerate the recovery of passwords. Users of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker and Elcomsoft Wireless... |
| MPs call for cyber war on Britain's cyber enemies Posted: 17 Jul 2012 10:30 PM PDT Britain's security and intelligence agencies have been urged by MPs to engage in cyber attacks against enemy states in a report released by The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). The repo... |
| Real-time IP address blocking of DDoS attacks Posted: 17 Jul 2012 10:28 PM PDT Corero Network Security is extending its capabilities with the launch of ReputationWatch. It will identify in real-time known malicious entities and block access to 'bad' IP addresses 'on-the-fly' bas... |
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