Fraudsters beat two-factor authentication, steal $45k

Fraudsters beat two-factor authentication, steal $45k


Fraudsters beat two-factor authentication, steal $45k

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 10:39 AM PST

It seems that two-factor authentication solutions that deliver verification codes to mobile phones are not as foolproof as one might think - a lesson that an Australian business owner learned the hard...

Facebook bug allows users to access private photos

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 09:19 AM PST

A bug tied to Facebook's "Report/Block" process can be misused to access uploaded photos of people who have chosen not to share them publicly, says a poster on the Bodybuilding.com forum. To access...

U.S. wakes up to cybercrime threat

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 07:05 AM PST

Businesses in the U.S. are increasingly waking up to the threat of cyber crime according to the latest Lloyd's Risk Index, but evidence shows the problem of cyber crime is growing and preparedness acr...

Ettercap 0.7.4 released

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 06:46 AM PST

Ettercap is a network sniffer/interceptor/logger for ethernet LANs. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones, like SSH and HTTPS). Data injection in an esta...

New version of Qualys web application scanner

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 05:37 AM PST

Qualys announced a new release of QualysGuard Web Application Scanning (WAS) 2.1 that integrates with Selenium to help companies further automate scanning of web applications with complex authenticati...

Download.com bundles Nmap with malware

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:35 AM PST

"Hi Folks. I've just discovered that C|Net's Download.Com site has started wrapping their Nmap downloads (as well as other free software like VLC) in a trojan installer which does things like installi...

Key concern for 2012? Application DDoS attacks

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:01 AM PST

Imperva announced its predictions for the top cyber security trends for 2012. The analysis is designed to help companies shield themselves from the threat of hackers and insiders. The top nine cy...

Kaspersky Lab Virus Scanner in the Mac App Store

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 02:03 AM PST

Kaspersky Virus Scanner is a new lightweight application to secure Mac computers, available from the Mac App Store. Kaspersky Virus Scanner detects and removes both Mac and Windows-based malware th...

Sophos updates its endpoint protection

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 12:27 AM PST

According to industry estimates, as many as 90 percent of successful attacks are against vulnerabilities in which a patch already exists. Despite this statistic, many computers do not have the latest ...

Next-generation firewall with integrated IPS

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:30 PM PST

Sourcefire announced its Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) which combines IPS threat prevention, integrated application control and firewall capabilities in a high-performance security appliance. By ...

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