Linux Australia Breached by Hackers

Linux Australia, a consortium in charge of organizing Linux conferences Down Under, acknowledged over the weekend it was breached by attackers who were able to secure access to one of its servers, and with it, potential user information. In a detailed email to users on Saturday, the group’s...

Researchers Use Music, Light to Trigger Mobile Malware

Calling it a paradigm shift, university researchers were able to trigger mobile-device malware using a modest amount of music, lighting, magnetic fields or sound vibrations. “When you go to an arena or Starbucks, you don’t expect the music to have a hidden message, so this is a big paradigm shift...

Researchers Discover the World's Most Complicated Piece of Malware

Researchers from Kaspersky Labs claim to have discovered the most sophisticated piece of malware available on the Web. Detected by their antivirus product as TDSS, the Trojan employs a number of methods to avoid detection, including the use of encryption between the botnet command and control...

Top Crimeware Hosting Provider Taken Offline

VolgaHost, a hosting provider notorious in the security community for hosting botnet command-and-control servers and other services related to online crime has been taken offline, and a number of servers involved in the Zeus crimeware operation are offline, as a result. The hosting provider, whic...