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Disturbing state of enterprise security
Symantec organization published security report “State of Enterprise Security” that brings statistic data about enterprise security....
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Security researchers at NetWitness organization have discovered a massive botnet, called Kneber, affecting at least 75,000 computers at 2,500 companies and government agencies worldwide....
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After installing Microsoft's February security updates, Windows XP operation system users discovered BSOD (eng. blue-screen-of-death) error which made their computers unusable....
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APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) organization published the Phishing Activity Trends Report for the third quarter of 2009....
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Gartner Inc. security report indicates that security measures such as the use of one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication is no longer enough to protect online banking systems....
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Engineers have discovered a fix for serious security vulnerability in the SSL (secure sockets layer) protocol that secures email, web transactions and other types of sensitive internet traffic....
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The hacker who spread the massive MySpace worm in 2005, Samy Kamkar, has published a attack that identifies a victim's geographic location via his router....
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The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms as bases of operations for their online crimes. But security experts noticed that criminal have begun setting up their own virtual data centers....
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Security experts in MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5) agency are worried that hackers are spies who tries to steal industrial secret....
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Karsten Nohl, chief research scientist with H4RDW4RE, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based security research firm says that encryption technology used in GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) system has many security vulnerabilities. Mention system is the ...
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Microsoft published security advisory about vulnerability in operation system Windows 7 that is result of improperly implementation of SMB (Server Message Block) protocol....
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The latest version of Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer 8, contains a bug that can enable attacks against websites that are otherwise safe....
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Four men were indicted for hacking into RBS WorldPay processor and stealing over $9 million from ATMs around the globe. Mention processor, owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, processes financial transactions for different companies....
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Austrian hacker Peter Kleissner published that he created tool called “AV Tracker” that virus writers could use to make more programs that will be more undetectable by anti-virus tools....
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Symantec says that 43 million people have fallen victim to the "scareware" scam in the past 12 months....
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Even nine weeks after hacker Marlinspike demonstrated how to spoof authentication certificates for virtually any website on the internet, Microsoft still hasn't patched the underlying vulnerability....
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A Romanian hacker, well-known for discovering SQL injection vulnerabilities in popular Websites, discovered similar vulnerability on RBS WorldPay's site. ...
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New variant of Trojan, called Trojan.Grups, is using Google Groups newsgroups to distribute commands. Trojan distribution via newsgroups has existed for more than a decade, but using newsgroups as a command and control channel is a new innovation. ...
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An Ealing council employee infected the UK local authority's IT systems with the Conficker-D worm after he plugged an infected USB into a work computer. According to The Guardian report, system repair and lost revenue cost around £500,000....
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Huge number of banking malware applications is using IM (instant messaging) to deliver stolen credentials to thieves in real time. The latest novelty is Trojan called Zeus which monitors actions on infected personal computer to get passwords entered into ...
