World's third largest botnet receives mortal blow

World's third largest botnet receives mortal blow


World's third largest botnet receives mortal blow

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 07:30 AM PDT

Grum, a botnet responsible for 17.4 percent of the world's spam emails, finally seems to be dead. In the last few days, Dutch authorities have shut down two of the botnet's secondary C&C servers po...

Guy steals $80,000 worth of Nike items via website loophole

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 06:32 AM PDT

A former college baseball player from Virginia managed to get his hands on Nike merchandise worth over $80,000 for free after having found and exploited a loophole in one of the company's websites. ...

Event: RSA Conference Europe 2012

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 06:25 AM PDT

From managing smartphones and tablets to assessing risks from social media tools, securing information touches us all. RSA Conference Europe 2012 delivers the steps and strategies needed to protect yo...

BYOD governance, security and privacy issues

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:58 AM PDT

Even IT professionals tasked with securing corporate data would be concerned about the privacy of their personal information if mobile device management (MDM) software were installed on smartphones or...

Compromised online accounts for sale

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:09 AM PDT

The recently unearthed website of a service specializing in selling access to compromised email and social networking accounts of Russian and Ukrainian users offers a fascinating glimpse into just ho...

Trend Micro Mobile Security 8.0 released

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:06 AM PDT

Trend Micro launched Trend Micro Mobile Security (TMMS) 8.0 which enhances the enforcement of existing password and encryption policies as well as provides more granular remote wipe capabilities. ...

Spear phishing targets one in two organizations

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT

Proofpoint announced findings from a survey of security IT enterprise decision makers, about email and information security trends. Key findings include: Spear phishing is an increasingly seriou...

Encryption for Microsoft Office 365

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 03:51 AM PDT

CipherCloud unveiled CipherCloud for Office 365, a cloud encryption gateway that transparently encrypts all email message, calendar, and contact data stored in Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange Online ...

When employees leave so does your data

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 03:30 AM PDT

One in three (32%) employees have taken or forwarded confidential information out of the office on more than one occasion, according to Iron Mountain. When people change jobs, highly sensitive info...

D-Link releases Cloud Camera 5000 with pan and tilt

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 11:21 PM PDT

D-Link announced its D-Link Cloud Camera 5000 (DCS-5222L), which offers a round-the-clock surveillance solution with 720p HD recording, smooth pan/tilt and digital zoom functionality, integrated motio...

Metasploit Pro increases vulnerability management efficiency

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 10:15 PM PDT

Rapid7 introduced the means to increase vulnerability management efficiency by leveraging intelligence from its penetration testing solution, Metasploit Pro, to validate potential risks. Metasplo...

Real-time fraud prevention with PhoneID Contact

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 09:09 PM PDT

TeleSign announced the newest product in the PhoneID suite, which helps online businesses block fraud by delivering name and address details based on a phone number. PhoneID Contact enables online ...

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