Israel preparing their Cyber Army under Unit 8200

The Israeli military has set plans to boost its cyber warfare capabilities with a better Cyber Army by expand its Unit 8200. "It has become clear that the demand for soldiers in this field is growing, which is why we're searching for solutions not only in Israel but abroad as well," a top officer...

Infographic: Veracode on Mobile Security and Protecting Your Device

Veracode have put out another snazzy infographic, this time to help illustrate the mobile computing boom of the last few years. To accompany the BYOD Bring Your Own Device policy that’s becoming commonplace in offices around the world, the web security firm uses two characters, Joe Worker and Joe...

RSA: Phishing Attacks Net $687m to Date in 2012

There have been nearly 33,000 phishing attacks globally each month this year, totaling a loss of $687 million, according to new statistics released by security firm RSA earlier this week. Those phishing attack numbers, 32,581 attacks per month on average, mark a 19 percent increase globally...

Spear Phishing Emails, Malware, Targeting BlackBerry Users

Blackberry owners are being targeted by a new type of malware that’s beginning to spread via spear phishing emails, according to security firm Websense. According to a post on the company’s blog, Security Labs, those users who are targeted receive an email with the subject line “Your BlackBerry I...

Yahoo Looking Into Password Breach

If it’s a day ending in Y, then there must be another password leak. And today it’s Yahoo’s turn in the spotlight, as the company is investigating claims that more than 400,000 plaintext passwords were stolen from the company and posted online. Security researchers who have looked at the data say...

Video: One Minute Of Global Botnet Traffic

We write often about attacks linked to massive botnets like Cutwail, Sality and others. But what does botnet activity really look like, were you to visualize it? Security firm Unveillance has put together this short five minute video to help explain. In the video, Unveillance caputred one minute ...

Amnesty International Website Compromised, Serving Up Gh0st RAT

Amnesty International’s United Kingdom website was compromised and hosting the potent Gh0st RAT Trojan earlier this week, according to research conducted by security firm Websense. According to the company’s Security Labs blog, visitors to the site over two days this week, May 8 and 9, may have h...

Symantec Experiment: Half Of Those Who Find Smartphones Don't Return Them

Good Samaritans are few and far between when it comes to lost cell phones, according to the conclusions of a social experiment conducted by security firm Symantec. Smart phones are unlikely to be returned by those who find them, but very likely to be perused for sensitive data including photos,...

FBI charge Anonymous for stealing CC worth $700000 in Stratfor attack

FBI charge Anonymous for stealing CC worth $700000 in Stratfor attack The FBI has revealed that there were $700,000 worth of fraudulent credit card charges after hacktivist group Anonymous stole nearly 200 gigabytes of data, including credit card numbers, from security firm Stratfor. Anonymous...

Facebook app spreading Android Malwares

Facebook app spreading Android Malwares Even though Google recently introduced a malware-blocking system called Bouncer to keep the Android Market safe from malicious software, crafty spammers and fraudsters are still managing to find ways around the restrictions to get their software onto users'...

Massive Compromise of WordPress Sites Leads To Phoenix Exploit Kit

Researchers at the security firm M86 report that hackers have compromised hundreds of Web sites that use the WordPress content management system. The sites, mostly small Web pages and blogs, are being used to fool spam filters and redirect unwitting visitors to drive by download Websites that wil...

New Facebook Worm installing Zeus Bot in your Computer

New Facebook Worm installing Zeus Bot in your Computer Recently We Expose about 25 Facebook phishing websites and also write about biggest Facebook phishing in French which steal more then 5000 usernames and passwords. Today another new attack on Facebook users with Zeus Bot comes in action. The...

Mac OS X Trojan Goes Bitcoin Mining, Steals Files

A new Trojan targeting Mac OS X users is not only after data, but Bitcoins as well. The malware is being detected by Sophos as Miner-D, but is also known as DevilRobber. According to Sophos, the Trojan is hiding inside pirated versions of the Mac OS X image editing application GraphicConverter...

BIOS based Virus discovered by Chinese Security Firm

BIOS based Virus discovered by Chinese Security Firm A Chinese AV company 360 discovered a new Trojan, the "BMW Virus" also called Mebromi, that can actually infect a computers BIOS: "BMW 360 Security Center virus is the latest catch of a high-risk virus, the virus that infected a chain BIOS...

GlobalSign Investigation Continues, Some CA Services to Return Monday

UPDATE: A day after suspending the issuance of SSL certificates while it investigates claims that its certificate authority infrastructure was compromised, GlobalSign said that the investigation is still ongoing but that it planned to begin bringing some of its services back online on Monday...

GlobalSign Stops Issuing Certs As It Investigates Claims of Compromise

GlobalSign, a major certificate authority that was named by the hacker who has claimed credit for the DigiNotar hack as another CA he has compromised, has stopped issuing certificates for the time being while it investigates the claims and determines whether its network has in fact been...

Report: Web Applications Attacked Every Two Minutes

Web applications are attacked every two minutes and at some times can experience upwards to 25,000 attacks an hour according to a report published by security firm Imperva today. As part of its continuing Hacker Intelligence initiative, Imperva’s Application Defense Center ADC released their Web...

Barr Unbowed: Former HBGary Federal CEO says We Need to Learn from LulzSec

This is the first in a two-part interview with Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal Each of us has made mistakes in our lives – woeful errors that we’ve been forced to learn from at great personal cost. Blessedly, those painful experiences are typically private affairs. Tears are spilled...

Company Offers Tool To Break iPhone Encryption

ElcomSoft, a Russian security firm, claims that a new encryption cracking tool can decode data encrypted on mobile devices running Apple’s iOS operating system. Elcomsoft says it has developed the first ever commercially available password and encryption cracking tool. The company has made a phon...

SMS Trojan Found in Several Android Apps

Google has removed a group of mobile phone applications from its Android Market after it was discovered that the applications contained code that could be used to send SMS Short Message Service spam. Google’s action came after a security firm in Taiwan published a security alert about the apps on...