What will 2012 bring? We can't know for sure

Stuxnet and the specter of sophisticated, state-sponsored attacks were still dominating the news a year ago, as 2010 ended and we welcomed the New Year. Soon enough, however, there would be a new phenomenon to contend with: hacktivists. As the attack on HBGary Federal and Sony showed, faceless...

URGE (Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter) Hijacking Twitter Trends Released by Anonymous

URGE Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter Hijacking Twitter Trends Released by Anonymous Anonymous have created something called Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter, or more simply URGE, which hijacks Twitter trending topics, allowing Anonymous members and supporters to subvert the topic with their own embedd...

Hacker Halted USA 2011 - 10 Reasons Why You Should Attend

Hacker Halted USA 2011 - 10 Reasons Why You Should Attend Hacker Halted is a global series of Computer and Information Security conferences presented by EC-Council. The objective of the Hacker Halted conferences is to raise international awareness towards increased education and ethics in IT...

This Week: Coalfire Systems in the News

Its been quite a week in the world of IT security, and as experts in our field, we are often asked to comment on current trends and recent stories. Take some time to check out what we had to say recently:...

What is Zeus - Technical paper Zeus by SophosLabs !

What is Zeus - Technical paper Zeus by SophosLabs ! Zeus or Zbot is one of the most notorious and widely-spread information stealing Trojans in existence. Zeus is primarily targeted at financial data theft; its effectiveness has lead to the loss of millions worldwide. The spectrum of those...

The Consumerization of IT and Sophistication of Attacks

Like bank robbers, attackers tend to go where the money is and increasingly that means that they’re going after consumers. In this video, members of the Microsoft anti-malware team discuss the trend toward cybercrime rings employing sophisticated sales and marketing tactics to target consumers, a...

Zeus Malware Not Dead Yet, New Features Being Added

It’s been known for some time now that the creator/maintainer of the Zeus malware had turned over responsibility for his code to the author of the SpyEye Trojan and it was assumed that the two code bases had merged, rendering Zeus extinct. However, some new samples of the Zeus bot have surfaced...

Windows Loses Hacker Star Status In Next Decade

The next decade will see Microsoft lose its grip as the most-used and most attacked platform, as a new generation of hackers and cybercriminals diversify, launching attacks on a growing population of mobile devices and computers that run operating systems other than Windows, according to Kaspersk...

Cisco: More Threats To Apple, Mobile Devices In 2011

Data suggests that 2010 was a year of “more of the same” when it comes to computer threats, but 2011 likely won’t be, at least according to networking giant Cisco Systems, which released its Annual Security Report on Wednesday. Cisco’s annual report on the state of security reiterated findings fr...

PandaLabs Releases : Annual Report 2010 (Must Read) !

In 2010, cyber-criminals have created and distributed a third of all existing viruses. That is, in just 12 months, they have created 34 percent of all malware that has ever existed and has been classified by the company. Furthermore, the Collective Intelligence system, which automatically detects...

Threatpost's List of the Top 10 Security Top 10 Lists

Ever since the traditional print industry collapsed in on itself like a decommissioned ‘Vegas casino, replaced with blogs, micro blogs, social networking and other forms of Web based publishing, the end of the year has brought with it a blizzard of retrospective and prospective Top 10 lists from...

Threatpost's Five Security Trends to Watch in 2011

2010 ended with dire predictions about a new age of Internet enabled hacker-activism, but the big story in 2011 will be the explosion in IP enabled, loosely secured, Internet connected stuff. It’s the time of year when all of us gaze into the crystal ball and think of what the next 12 months has ...

Top 10 IT Security Trends for 2011

The crystal ball gazing has started early this year. Typically, tech prediction pieces emerge after Christmas, but the first 'security trends for 2011' missive has already dropped into my inbox. So, what does the somewhat premature Imperva Application Defense Center think will worry us the most o...

Report: IRC Botnets Dying…But Not Dead

Once the most common form of malicious computer network, botnets that use the IRC Internet Relay Chat protocol are going the way of the Brontosaurus, according to a report from Internet security monitoring firm Team Cymru. Under fire from better monitoring of IRC command and control C&C traffic a...

Project Honey Pot Hits 1 Billionth Spam Mark

Stats from the one billion spam messages blocked by Project Honey Pot over the last five years provide an insight into junk mail trends and spamming practices. Read the full article. The Register...

Office Attacks Linger Years After Patches Published

More than half of the attacks against Microsoft Office applications during the first six months of 2009 were against applications that had not been patched in more than five years. In its semi-annual Security Intelligence Report, a six-month review of malware and attack trends released Monday,...

Prediction: Apple will recommend security software

From CNet Jon Oltsik As an analyst, it is my job to follow the industry, internalize trends, and then use this information to make predictions. OK, here goes: Within the next 18 months, Apple will begin recommending that Macintosh users install Internet security software on all systems. Now I...

Counterpoint: Market share not the only obstacle for mobile viruses

The looming mobile malware threat of the past decade has yet to materialize. The reason for its lack of fruition, according to scientists, is due to geography and the lack of a dominant market shareholder. However well done the math, the scientific study is flawed nonetheless. “Understanding the...

Read the new procedure-based on the open source code to update the vulnerability discovery techniques-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Author: FireFoxF. s. T Article submission in 0 9 year 2 hacking client manual The editors agreed to release the object is for everyone to have better communication more exciting content, see the hacker Handbook Background: The so-called patch or update, it has been is the research and development...

Hackers social engineering attacks new technologies:opportunities and-attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Opportunities type of attack refers to a specific time, place, event, environmental conditions, take special tools for the invasion and destruction of the means, it belongs to social engineering attacks, and in 2 0 0 8 years will frequently appear. Trendy attacks As social engineering attacks,...