Another Dutch CA confirms breach, stops issuing certificates

Another Dutch CA confirms breach, stops issuing certificates


Another Dutch CA confirms breach, stops issuing certificates

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 10:19 AM PST

Another Certification Authority has admitted a breach into its systems and has decided to suspend the issuing of digital certificates as a precaution until more details are known about the intrusion. ...

20-fold increase in fraudulent spam

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 09:46 AM PST

In Q3 2011, the percentage of fraudulent emails in spam traffic increased twenty times, rising from 0.1 per cent last quarter to 2 per cent of all spam traffic in Q3. The quantity of fraudulent messag...

Brazilian ISPs hit with massive DNS cache poisoning attacks

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 07:01 AM PST

A massive DNS cache poisoning attack attempting to infect users trying to access popular websites is currently under way in Brazil, warns Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini. "Brazil has some big I...

Why do malicious Android apps come from China?

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:43 AM PST

It seems like every time we hear about a malicious application aimed at Android users, it is always distributed by third-party Chinese app markets. You might wonder why the Chinese seem to have a ...

Browser bloat and privacy concerns

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:22 AM PST

An increase in browser-based bloat and malware, and growing concern over online tracking technology, will top the technology trends in 2012, according to SlimWare Utilities. Already, the amount o...

McAfee updates its Cloud Security Platform

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:15 AM PST

McAfee announced the latest enhancements to its Cloud Security Platform which secures all primary channels of traffic – email, web and authentication – moving between an organisation and the cloud to ...

Fake PayPal Account Review Notification doing rounds

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 04:34 AM PST

An email notification supposedly sent by PayPal saying that an intrusion into the user's account has been detected is currently hitting inboxes around the world. "We have limited access to your acc...

You can count on IT failures

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:41 AM PST

A worrying 60 per cent of respondents surveyed by City Lifeline at this year's IP Expo have lost access to the company's IT system following an unexpected incident. The resulting unplanned downtime...

Barracuda Link Balancer XSS vulnerabilities

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:26 AM PST

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Barracuda Link Balancer, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, according to Secunia. Certain input passed v...

ISO 27001: ISMS implementation process overview

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 03:10 AM PST

Although many people consider ISO 27001 as a bureaucratic standard with no real benefits, actually the opposite is true – if it is implemented properly, not only will it enhance the marketing position...

GFI Software cloud-based anti-malware and anti-spam email security

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 02:54 AM PST

GFI Software announced that GFI MailEssentials Complete Online, a cloud-based anti-malware and anti-spam email security solution, is now available to small and medium businesses (SMBs) throughout the ...

Week in review: Study of hacker forums, creating effective CAPTCHAs, and trust relocated for yet another CA

Posted: 06 Nov 2011 09:01 PM PST

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, reviews and articles: Irresponsible IT disposal methods Although data security is the primary concern when decommission...

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