Why emerging APAC markets are prime targets for the malware of the future

In many ways, Asia has led the way in technological development. Robotics, video games, dizzyingly fast Internet speeds. But when it comes to cybersecurity, several APAC countries, especially those in emerging markets, are severely lacking. And while, according to the 2017 State of Malware Report...

Dark Web Ransomware Economy Growing at an Annual Rate of 2,500%

CryptoLocker. GoldenEye. Locky. WannaCry. It’s no secret that 2017 is shaping up to be the most notorious year on record for ransomware. Even a casual news consumer can identify several, if not all, of the menacing ransomware attacks that have cost worldwide businesses an estimated $1 billion thi...

M-Trends 2017: A View From the Front Lines

Every year Mandiant responds to a large number of cyber attacks, and 2016 was no exception. For our M-Trends 2017 report, we took a look at the incidents we investigated last year and provided a global and regional the Americas, APAC and EMEA analysis focused on attack trends, and defensive and...

Moving Beyond EMET

EMET – Then and Now Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative was 7 years old in 2009 when we first released the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET. Despite substantial improvements in Windows OS security during that same period, it was clear that the way we shipped Windows at the tim...

CVE-2014-9769

pcrejitcompile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by packets encountered by Suricata...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9769

pcrejitcompile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by packets encountered by Suricata...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9769

pcrejitcompile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by packets encountered by Suricata...

CVE-2014-9769

pcrejitcompile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by packets encountered by Suricata...

CVE-2014-9769

pcrejitcompile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by packets encountered by Suricata...

APT Groups Emerging in Middle East

CANCUN–Since security researchers and vendors began exposing the inner workings of APT groups a few years ago, virtually all of the operations that have been made public have been the work of attackers in Europe, Asia or North America. But recently, groups in the Middle East have joined the game ...

Chertoff Group Security Series Educates Financial Services Institutions about Cybercrime

Last week I attended The Chertoff Groups Security Series on Building Resiliency for Financial Services Sector. They provided insight into what theyre doing to protect their organizations, how they see the industry evolving, and firsthand knowledge about emerging threats...

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Integrated Solutions Console Login Page username Parameter Reflected XSS Security Vulnerability

INFO: Class: Input Validation Error CVE: Remote: Yes Local: No Published: Aug 27 2014 12:00AM Updated: Aug 27 2014 12:00AM Credit: G. S. McNamara, CGI Federal Emerging Technologies Security Practice ETSP Vulnerable: IBM WebSphere Application Server WAS Integrated Solutions Console 7.0.0.19...

Surveillance Backdoors 'Contribute to Insecurity', Report Says

The existing state of affairs in which government agencies and intelligence services work to insert backdoors into various hardware, software and networks is not only a problem in terms of civil rights but also represents a serious security risk to most users and the Internet itself, a recent...

The Rapidly Changing World of Mobile Application Payment Systems Compliance

In this series of Compliance Talk, Dirk and Ken are back at their favorite coffee shop, this time joined by Dan Fritsche. Dan is Coalfires Director of Solution Validated Services and is considered a thought leader on mobile payments, P2PE and other emerging trends in the payments industry...

Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

REDMOND, Wash.–If one were to draw up a list of the most challenging jobs in the technology industry, chief privacy officer at Microsoft likely would be pretty near the top of it. For a company with the size and scope of Microsoft, the volume of potential privacy issues is nearly endless, and if...

Cyber Criminals took over billion dollar of Brazilian companies

Cyber Criminals took over billion dollar of Brazilian companies PricewaterhouseCoopers has revealed in a report that cyber criminals are now shifting their attacks towards emerging markets, especially those engaging with carbon emission trades which promote low carbon technologies but whose...

FBI Looking for App to Monitor Twitter and Facebook For Threat Data

The FBI is in the early stages of developing an application that would monitor sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as various news feeds, in order to find information on emerging threats and new events happening at the moment. The tool would give specialists the ability to pull the data...

International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World

International Conference on Cyber Security ICCS 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World The FBI is teaming up with Fordham University for the International Conference on Cyber Security. It's an effort to identify emerging cyber threats and develop ways to mitigate those threats. The ZeuS Trojan has...

THN December Magazine Released ! Who We are at The Hacker News ?

THN December Magazine Released ! Who We are at The Hacker News ? It is hard to re-cap the past year and all the excitement and hard work we have experienced launching an online magazine. The subject, Hacking, is even more exciting as the technology world awakens to the security issues facing all...

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...