Koobface: Hit Down in HK, Gets Up in China

Security experts in Hong Kong last week succeeded in taking down a key component of the Koobface bonnet, only to witness the system popping up in China. Read the full article. The Register...

RSA 2010: Experts Reject Taxing Hacks & Malware

Microsoft’s idea that the fight against malware could be funded by an Internet tax is “horrible,” an analyst said as other experts weighed in on a recent comment by the company’s security chief. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam

The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the...

WOW Gamers Targeted with Trojan Spam

Security experts are warning of a new malicious spam campaign with a Trojan Horse designed to harvest the log-in credentials of online gamers with sexually explicit images of Asian women. Read the full article. SC Magazine...

Researchers Releasing Tool to Break Into Oracle Databases

From CNet News.com Elinor Mills During their presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences next week in Las Vegas, security experts will release a tool that can be used to break into Oracle databases. Chris Gates and Mario Ceballos will present Oracle Pentesting Methodology and give...

Opera Unite: Botmaster's Best Friend?

From IDG News Service Robert McMillan Opera has added a lot of cool new features to its upcoming Opera 10 browser, and one of them is almost sure to catch the eye of cyber criminals. It’s called Opera Unite, and while Opera promotes it as an exciting new platform for next-generation Web...

Online Ad Sales Open Door to Viruses

From The Wall Street Journal Emily Steel On a Saturday night at the end of May, visitors to the forums section of Digital Spy, a British entertainment and media news Web site, were greeted with an ad that loaded malicious software onto their computers. The Web site’s advertising system had been...

Data-sniffing trojans hit Eastern European ATMs

From The Register Dan Goodin Security experts have discovered a family of data-stealing trojans that have burrowed into automatic teller machines in Eastern Europe over the past 18 months. The malware logs the magnetic-stripe data and personal identification number of cards used at an infected...

What's the cost of fixing an application vulnerability?

From DarkReading Kelly Jackson Higgins The cleanup cost for fixing a bug in a homegrown Web application ranges anywhere from $400 to $4,000 to repair, depending on the vulnerability and the way it’s fixed. Security experts traditionally have been hesitant to calculate the actual cost associated...

Verify whether the patch installed three large exploit tools-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

We are talking about here is some for creating security tools and exploits program Security Platform. Security experts to perform penetration tests, system administrators can verify whether the patch has been installed, manufacturers can perform regression testing. First, the Metasploit Framework...