Bogus reminder about tomorrow's meeting carries malware

Bogus reminder about tomorrow's meeting carries malware


Bogus reminder about tomorrow's meeting carries malware

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 09:48 AM PDT

Bogus emails warning users not to forget about a meeting scheduled for the next day have been hitting inboxes and trying to make the recipients download malware, warns Sophos. The emails in questio...

DarkComet RAT author ends the project

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 08:42 AM PDT

The DarkComet remote administration tool, which has recently been misused by the Syrian government to spy on its opponents, has reached the end of the line. "DarkComet RAT ends like this after seve...

MIT unveils a new Internet protocol for mobile clients

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 07:12 AM PDT

By exchanging TCP with UDP, two MIT researchers have managed to create the State Synchronization Protocol (SSP) - a new Internet protocol more suited to establishing and sustaining the irregular and l...

Free tool protects Internet connections from DNS Changer shutdown

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:41 AM PDT

Bitdefender released a tool to prevent computer users worldwide infected with DNS Changer malware from losing their internet connection on July 9th. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation shut d...

New Android Trojan secretly buys apps

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:01 AM PDT

Even though malicious Android apps can occasionally be found on Google Play, Chinese third-party online Android markets are known for offering them by the hundreds, if not thousands. Most of them...

Open source IDS Suricata 1.3 released

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 04:55 AM PDT

Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. Several characteristics of Suricata make it appro...

Fake anti-piracy warnings hitting UK users with money requests

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 04:02 AM PDT

Much has been said and written about the UK's Digital Economy Act, but most Internet users still know just one thing about it: that it will eventually end with ISPs sending out notifications to Intern...

Enterprise log managers: An unsexy but vital tool

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Ultimately, the goal of Enterprise Log Management (ELM) is to get your most critical events escalated to your operations staff to react and respond with the appropriate actions. In today's enterprise,...

Worldwide IT spending to surpass $3.6 trillion in 2012

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 12:57 AM PDT

Worldwide IT spending is on pace to reach $3.6 trillion in 2012, a 3 percent increase from 2011 spending of $3.5 trillion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner. Gartner's 2012 IT spending outloo...

Cuckoo Sandbox: Automated malware analysis

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Cuckoo Sandbox is an open source automated malware analysis system. It started as a Google Summer of Code 2010 project with The Honeynet Project and evolved into being one of the most appreciated and ...

Think Like a Programmer

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 09:30 PM PDT

The real challenge of programming isn't learning a language's syntax—it's learning to creatively solve problems so you can build something great. In this book, author V. Anton Spraul breaks down the w...

Week in review: Android clickjacking rootkit, EU Parliament rejects ACTA, and Facebook's contact-deleting API bug

Posted: 08 Jul 2012 09:00 PM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, videos and articles: Firewall management, IPv6 and you While the IPv6 protocol has been around for along time, forklift upgrades ...

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