Malicious fake Firefox update spam run

Malicious fake Firefox update spam run


Malicious fake Firefox update spam run

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 11:54 AM PDT

Fake notices about a Firefox update are again targeting the browser's users, says Sophos. A rather plain message supposedly coming from Mozilla instructs users to follow the included link in order ...

Big corporations "hacked" in Defcon social engineering contest

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 11:27 AM PDT

Most of the recent high-profile cyber attacks against corporations and government organizations have one thing in common - they all started with a successful social engineering attempt. It often ...

SMS spying Android Trojan triggered by keywords

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 09:55 AM PDT

Another week, another trojanized Android app. And, according to Trend Micro researchers, this one has a functionality that differentiates it from similar previous ones: it intercepts text messages bas...

Anonymous dumps US law enforcement, Brazil's Federal Police data, hacks Syrian MOD website

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 09:27 AM PDT

It has been another busy weekend for the AntiSec initiative. First Anonymous and LulzSec released a 10GB data dump consisting of the information pilfered from the servers of over 70 US law enforce...

Event: FloCon 2012

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 07:34 AM PDT

FloCon is an open workshop that provides a forum for operational analysts, tool developers and other parties interested in the analysis of large volumes of traffic to showcase the next generation of f...

Annual cost of cybercrime highlights need for governance

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 07:17 AM PDT

ISACA commends the Ponemon Institute's latest "Cost of cybercrime" report for the detail it provides on the indirect costs of IT security attacks, as well as the news that organizations are focusing m...

"Fidel Castro died" spam run leads to malware

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 04:04 AM PDT

Malware pushers have never balked from using news about a celebrity's death to trick people into downloading malicious payloads. They also have no problem with faking such news. The latest spam cam...

The privacy officer's agenda according to Gartner

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:30 AM PDT

Data breaches, cloud computing, location-based services and regulatory changes will force virtually all organizations to review, and at least half of all organizations to also revise, their current pr...

Assessing the security of cloud providers

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 02:55 AM PDT

The Cloud Security Alliance announced the launch of a new initiative to encourage transparency of security practices within cloud providers. The CSA Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR) ...

Week in review: Mobile drive-bys, Facebook bug bounty and Operation Shady RAT

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 09:01 PM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Facebook introduces bug bounty program Facebook has decided to follow in Google's and Mozilla's steps and institute ...

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