“The 101” – Episode 4 – What are the Different Types of Malware?

We’re back with another episode of The 101! This weekly security series aims to define endpoint security one question at a time. Tune in each week as we tackle a new term, concept, or comparison in our ongoing effort to cut through the noise and provide clear definitions. So far we’ve talked abou...

“The 101” – Episode 2 – What is Next-Generation Antivirus, or NGAV?

We’re back with another episode of The 101! This weekly security series aims to define endpoint security, one question at a time. Tune in each week as we tackle a new term, concept or comparison in our ongoing effort to cut through the noise and provide clear definitions. Recently, we helped defi...

Breach at Sabre Corp.’s Hospitality Unit

Breaches involving major players in the hospitality industry continue to pile up. Today, travel industry giant Sabre Corp. disclosed what could be a significant breach of payment and customer data tied to bookings processed through a reservations system that serves more than 32,000 hotels and oth...

IoT Medical Devices: A Prescription for Disaster

If you’re sick and sitting in a drab hospital room hooked-up to a dialysis pump, the last thing you want to worry about is hackers. But according to IT healthcare security experts, there is a chance that life-saving dialysis machine is infected with malware, could even be processing fraudulent...

Backoff Sinkhole Reveals Sorry Point-of-Sale Security

Kaspersky Lab researchers say that a recent analysis of two Backoff malware command and control servers paints “a very bleak picture of the state of point-of-sale security.” Kaspersky Lab sinkholed two of the malware’s command and control servers. In just two days, nearly 100 infected systems,...

DDoS Attacks a Cover for Financial Fraud, IP Theft

It’s difficult to imagine a noisier attack than a distributed denial-of-service attack. They’re an ever-present threat to banks and other businesses where the uptime of Web-based services is critical to customers and the well-being of an enterprise. And as a handful proved throughout 2013, they a...

Bitcoin Transaction Malleability Flaw Resolved

The so-called transaction malleability software issue blamed for the dissolution of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has been patched. Also, the Bitcoin-QT reference client was also rebranded to Bitcoin Core, in order to clear confusion users might have had between the Bitcoin network and software. Bitco...

List of 8,000 FTP Credentials for Sale in Underground Forums

Hackers are targeting FTP upload sites with the hopes of redirecting victims to spam or even infecting webservers that rely on FTP applications for updates. Hold Security reported yesterday it had secured a list of credentials for close to 7,800 FTP sites being circulated in cybercrime forums. Th...

Microsoft Changes Bug Bounty Program to Include Incident Responders, Forensics Specialists

Having found some initial success with its first foray into the bug bounty world, Microsoft is expanding the program to open up payments of up to $100,000 to incident response teams and forensics experts who come across active attacks in the wild that include new techniques that bypass exploit...

China is planting spying microchips in Electric Iron and kettles that can scan Wi-Fi devices to serve malware

We have discussed many times in our stories the network of Intelligent devices, their capabilities and the possibilities that cyber criminals could exploit them for illegal activities. Hidden chips are used by cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers to infiltrate company networks and...

WordPress Update 3.5.2 Patches Seven Vulnerabilities

WordPress, which has been a jumping off point for a number of targeted attacks and other high-profile hacks, has been updated and the latest version includes a number of security patches. Version 3.5.2, released late last week, includes seven security fixes and some additional hardening, accordin...

Java: A Fix it for when you cannot let go

There is much to say about the use of Java in both consumer and enterprise environments. Like any other platforms, it has both devoted supporters and fervent critics. But for most, Java is a requirement, a means to an end. In the past few years, Java as a platform has been the target of numerous...

Grid Utilities Critical Infrastructure Protection Lacking

It would seem that what spurs private and public electric grid utility operators to action with regard to cybersecurity isn’t the Chinese or Iranians attacking them, but the word “mandatory”. A paper published yesterday by two U.S. legislators revealed that when there are mandatory cybersecurity...

Activists on Front Lines Bringing Computer Security to Oppressed People

Security-related policy or legislation is enacted and then enforced to protect corporate, government or military interests. Civil organizations are often left flailing in the wind, fending for themselves with fewer IT resources and experience than a Middle America mom-and-pop operation. Yet these...

Cyber security scenario according to WebSense

It's time of stocktaking, principal security firm are proposing their analysis to synthesize actual situation on cyber security, 2012 is widely considered a year when the malware has increased significantly thanks to the contributions of various actors that we will analyze shortly. WebSense has...

Chinese Government targets Uyghur group by malware attack

An old vulnerability in Word for OS X is being used in increasing levels of attacks, probably government-sponsored hacking programs against Uyghur group, including Tibetans, NGOs and human rights organizations. A number of attacks have been seen directed at the World Uyghur Congress, a Munich-bas...

Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Israel and Palestine

Multiple malware attacks against both Israeli and Palestinian systems, likely to be coming from the same source, have been seen over the last year. Researchers in Norway have uncovered evidence of a vast Middle Eastern espionage network that for the past year has deployed malicious software to sp...

Blackshades RAT Pops Up in Attacks on Syrian Activists

They just do not stop having targeted malware attacks in Syria. Just a few days after the author of the Dark Comet RAT announced he was shutting down development and sales of the tool, partly because it was used in attacks by the Syrian government, experts have found that pro-government attackers...

Cyber Criminals Selling Millions of U.S military email addresses

Cyber Criminals Selling Millions of U.S military email addresses Web based underground market service currently selling Millions of harvested U.S government and U.S military harvested emails addresses to potential spammers, and find out just how easy it is to purchase that kind of data within the...

Pro-Syrian Malware Targets, Impedes Activists

The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF warned this week that political activists in Iran and Syria are being targeted in malware attacks disgised as Adobe Flash Player updates on Youtube. In a blog post by the EFF’s Eva Galperin and Morgan Marquis-Boire on Thursday said the attacks occur after...