Vawtrak Trojan Adds DGA, SSL Pinning

Attackers behind the Vawtrak banking Trojan have been keeping busy, updating the malware over the last few weeks with new a domain generation algorithm DGA and SSL pinning capabilities. Research published by security firm Fidelis on Tuesday explains the updates and breaks down how Vawtrak’s DGA...

BlueHat v16 Announced

Microsoft is pleased to announce our sixteenth BlueHat Security Conference set for November 3-4, 2016 at the Microsoft Conference Center here in Redmond. BlueHat is a unique opportunity for Microsoft engineers and the security community to come together learn about the current threat landscape an...

LinkedIn Latest Contributor to Breach Fatigue

The obvious takeaway from last week’s LinkedIn data breach revelation where we learned hackers were selling 117 million LinkedIn usernames, email addresses and passwords from a 2012 breach is, change your passwords-and often. The not so obvious takeaways come from noted security expert Troy Hunt,...

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: Top Takeaways

Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report painted a bleak picture when it comes to malware, fraudulent login attempts and the staying power of really old exploits. Key findings in the 198-page biannual report run the gamut illustrating how old threats die hard and what new threats are on the...

Landscape video camera - Customized SSL, KeyStore usage, SD-card access vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Landscape video camera published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Mitre Tackles Its Critics: Set To Revamp CVE Vulnerability Reporting

Mitre Corporation will introduce a new pilot program for classifying Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE in the coming weeks. The move is in response to a backlash in the security community where some critics contend Mitre is failing to keep pace with a massive influx in the number of report...

Apple Counters FBI's Backdoor Demand as Unconstitutional

Apple has matched the Department of Justice’s recent vitriol, by this week calling the FBI’s request for code to help it unlock Syed Farook’s iPhone unconstitutional. Furthermore, Apple in a court filing this week again challenged the validity of the government’s use of the All Writs Act of 1789 ...

What is Threat Intelligence and How It Helps to Identify Security Threats

Simply put, threat intelligence is knowledge that helps you identify security threats and make informed decisions. Threat intelligence can help you solve the following problems: How do I keep up to date on the overwhelming amount of information on security threats…including bad actors, methods,...

U.S. and Japan to Cooperate on Cybersecurity, Information Sharing

The United States and Japan have agreed to cooperate more closely on cybersecurity and information sharing initiatives as a way to help both countries defend against future threats and attacks. The new initiative will include a variety of components, most notably cooperation during serious...

A Call for Better Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure

For years our customers have been in the trenches against cyberattacks in an increasingly complex digital landscape. We’ve been there with you, as have others. And we aren’t going anywhere. Forces often seek to undermine and disrupt technology and people, attempting to weaken the very devices and...

Emerging Threats and Going Beyond Compliance

I recently presented to a C-level gathering of retail finance executives about the industrys changing threat landscape and the emerging threats facing omni-channel sellers. The retail security environment has changed dramatically in the past few years. Not that long ago, retailers mostly worried...

FBI, NYPD Form Financial Cybercrime Task Force

The FBI has formed a new cybercrime task force with the New York Police Department and the Metropolitan Transit Authority whose job will be to go after high-level financial cyber crimes, employing a model of interagency cooperation that the bureau and other federal law enforcement agencies have...

The Next Leap Forward in Cyber Defense: Taking Action to Help Defeat Adversaries

It is often said that attackers have an advantage, because the defenders have to protect every part of their systems all the time, while the attacker only has to find one way in. This argument oversimplifies the security landscape and the real strength that defenders can achieve if they work...

Cost of Doing APT Business Dropping

PUNTA CANA–The term APT often is used as a generic descriptor for any group–typically presumed to be government-backed and heavily financed–that is seen attacking high-value targets such as government agencies, critical infrastructure and financial systems. But the range of targets APT groups are...

Microsoft Security Essentials Support Continues Beyond XP

Microsoft announced yesterday that it plans to continue updating signatures on the antimalware engine it uses to protect Windows XP for more than a year beyond the date from which it plans to cut off support for the operating system. That means enterprises still running System Center Endpoint...

Blackhole and Cool Exploit Kits Nearly Extinct

When authorities in Russia arrested Paunch, the alleged creator of the Blackhole exploit kit, last month, security researchers and watchers of the malware underground predicted that taking him off the board would put a dent in the use of Blackhole and force its customers onto other platforms. Six...

Vulnerabilities Continue to Weigh Down Samsung Android Phones

Attackers have long had an affinity for having their way with Android phones, but the hammer seems to have really come down over the last few months when it comes to devices manufactured by Samsung. Independent Italian researcher Roberto Paleari discussed several bugs he recently found in Samsung...

Groundbreaking Cyber Fast Track Research Program Ending

VANCOUVER–When Peiter Zatko, the security researcher and pioneering hacker known as Mudge, joined the federal government several years ago to help run a DARPA research program, some in the security industry wondered what effect someone with his background could have in an organization as famously...

Phil Zimmermann on Mobile Encryption and Privacy

Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer and PGP inventor Phil Zimmermann about the specter of mobile eavesdropping, his new venture Silent Circle and how the threat landscape has changed in recent years. Download: digitalunderground110 Related: Phil Zimmermann: ‘We Really, Really Don’t Have the...

Trusteer: More Chrome, 64-bit Windows Malware to Come in 2013

Tis the season for predictions and security firm Trusteer checks in today with a handful for the upcoming New Year. In a post on the company’s blog, CTO Amit Klein distills Trusteer’s top ideas into an infographic,. The company predicts the security landscape will see more exploits, specifically...