"Groupon discount gifts" email leads to malware

"Groupon discount gifts" email leads to malware


"Groupon discount gifts" email leads to malware

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 11:02 AM PDT

Spam emails targeting users on the lookout for good deals have been hitting inboxes around the world, Sophos warns. The email purportedly comes from Groupon, the popular deal-of-the-day website, an...

Is Ubisoft's DRM browser plugin a rootkit?

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 09:50 AM PDT

An offhand remark made by Google engineer Tavis Ormandy to a post on the Full Disclosure mailing list has sparked anger in the harts of Ubisoft users, as he shared his discovery of what seems to be a ...

Researcher demonstrates highly persistent hardware backdoor

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:36 AM PDT

Spurred by the conclusion of a recent report that said that given the fact that China is the de-facto manufacturer of most IT equipment in the world, it could easily backdoor any computer well before ...

Sophos releases free anti-virus app for Android

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 07:40 AM PDT

Sophos announced Sophos Mobile Security, a free lightweight anti-virus app that protects Android devices against malware, privacy issues and hardware loss - without reducing performance or battery lif...

Email from disgruntled buyer leads to eBay phishing page

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:46 AM PDT

In these hard economic times, many have turned to eBay for selling things in order to earn a buck. But, in order to be trusted by buyers, the sellers depend on good ratings from those who have already...

1,500 severe security events detected on Black Hat WLAN

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:41 AM PDT

The WLAN network at Black Hat was accessed by 3,155 attendees with a maximum of 904 simultaneous clients, detected and quickly contained a total of 1,561 severe independent security events. These e...

Tumblr and Twitter users targeted with oddball spam messages

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:21 AM PDT

A bizarre spam campaign touting free McDonalds gift cards has recently been spotted on compromised Tumblr and Twitter accounts: According to GFI, the link included in the spam message first tak...

Wargame examines the future of US infrastructure

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Booz Allen Hamilton concluded the first-ever wargame simulation examining creative infrastructure initiatives and solutions that factor in US transportation needs by the year 2040. Simulation parti...

Five steps for a secure cloud transition

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:14 AM PDT

Almost every type of SMB is examining its current IT infrastructure, determining what data and processes can move to the cloud. Of course, security remains one of the biggest concerns. Here are fiv...

Security storage app for iOS and Android devices

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:10 AM PDT

TrustPort launched Portunes, a freeware security storage app that runs on iOS and Android devices. Portunes is an application protecting sensitive data like informationon user's credit cards, ban...

The Computer Incident Response Planning Handbook

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 12:27 AM PDT

The Computer Incident Response Planning Handbook is derived from real-world incident response plans that work and have survived audits and repeated execution during data breaches and due diligence. ...

Week in review: Hidden security risks of top mobile apps, Facebook invites white hats to attack its networks

Posted: 29 Jul 2012 09:00 PM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and reviews: Penetration testing tool masquerades as surge protector In the same way that a hardware keylogger may remai...

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