Nearly 50 chemical, defense companies hit with cyber espionage attacks

Nearly 50 chemical, defense companies hit with cyber espionage attacks


Nearly 50 chemical, defense companies hit with cyber espionage attacks

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:04 AM PDT

Nearly 50 (and quite possibly more) companies in the chemical, defense, and other sectors have been hit with a spear phishing campaign carrying a backdoor Trojan with the ultimate goal of exfiltrating...

Online social networks: Malware launch pads

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:55 AM PDT

With the advent of social networks, the online world has become a virtual society. Social networks serve as seamless communication channels, but at the same time they are ideal launch pads for malware...

How to create effective CAPTCHAs

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:41 AM PDT

Half a year ago, a team of researchers from Stanford University's Security Laboratory has managed to build a computer program able to solve audio CAPTCHAs and to define how future audio CAPTCHAs shoul...

The rising tide of portable device risks

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:39 AM PDT

Responding to research claiming to show that almost a third of executives have rogue mobile devices linked to their organisation's network, Cryptzone says that this a symptom of the falling cost of te...

Insecure devices extend shopping risks

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 06:32 AM PDT

Shopping online for the holidays is up, with a 15 point increase in the percentage of Americans who say they will spend more time shopping online than in 2010. But according to ISACA, more than half t...

Toolkit cracks encrypted information on iOS 5 devices

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:39 AM PDT

ElcomSoft updated the iOS Forensic Toolkit with iOS 5 support for recovering keychain information in iOS 5 devices. Providing near-instant forensic access to encrypted information stored in the lat...

Secure replacement for the Certificate Authority System

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:46 AM PDT

Convergence is a secure replacement for the Certificate Authority System. Rather than employing a traditionally hard-coded list of immutable CAs, Convergence allows you to configure a dynamic set o...

Free guide to identity theft prevention

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:41 AM PDT

Intersections released the second edition of the Double Trouble ebook, that serves as a guide to identity theft prevention, including real-world scenarios where identity theft is common. "Breaches ...

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