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There has been a growing awareness during the past few years that cyber-security is an important element of military defense – a fact that was underscored by recent research from McAfee and Brussels-based think tank Security & Defence Agenda (SDA).
A threat called Android.Counterclank by Symantec, is said to have infected 1-5 million users, via 13 different applications. As word of the Android malware started to spread, Symantec’s rival in the mobile protection space – Lookout Mobile Security – disputed their claims as hype.
Fifteen companies, including PayPal, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, have united to launch DMARC, a blueprint for a global, Internet-wide counter attack on phishing
A trader in Latvia was charged for conducting a widespread online account intrusion scheme in which he manipulated the prices of more than 100 NYSE and Nasdaq securities.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States, has issued an investor alert and a regulatory notice about an increase in financially motivated attacks, targeting the email accounts used by investors to initiate transactions.
UFC.com and two domains owned by the luxury designer firm Coach, were targeted for their continued support of the anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting bills.
According to Sophos, Eighty-five (85) percent of all malware, including viruses, worms, spyware, adware and Trojans, comes from the web, with drive-by downloads marked as the top web threat.
Last December, train service and rail schedules were disrupted, according to a TSA memo, after intruders managed to access the network of a rail company in the Pacific Northwest. Initially, the incident was thought to be a targeted attack, but further investigation shows that wasn’t the case.
Microsoft is not just taking down botnets; it is taking them down and naming names. In an amended complaint, Microsoft named Andrey N. Sabelnikov of St. Petersburg, Russia, as the alleged head of the notorious Kelihos botnet.
Twitter has acquired Dasient Inc., a provider of anti-malware solutions for websites and ad networks.
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Traditional security solutions are falling short of providing needed protection because they’re typically blind to changing conditions and new attacks. Simply put: you can’t protect what you can’t see.
Companies are increasingly seeing the benefits of using social technologies both for internal and external purposes. What is the security impact of this trend? What should security teams think about?
I’m a multi-millionaire. Or rather I could be if I helped the honorable Mr. Nagumba get his money out of Nigeria, or helped Barbara get her money out of Brazil, or picked up my unclaimed lottery winnings, or helped another half dozen people in the last month.
Like any well-established sub-culture, the world of script kiddies is fascinating to watch, difficult to fully understand from the outside and obviously intriguing to those within that world.
The question most asked throughout 2011 was, “is this the year with the most hacks?” There is no straight answer. I think the best way to answer the question is to pose another question.
2011 was a landmark year to say the least, in terms of network security and the overall evolution of malware, and there are no indications that things will slow down anytime soon. With that in mind lets embark on that traditional new year exercise and predict a few of the trends we’re likely to see in 2012.
My brief relationship with the Morto worm lasted exactly 5 days, at least that I know of. Morto is a computer worm – one that burrows into a computer system and lives to infect other computers and take orders from her botnet herder.
As malware gets progressively more complex, it’s important to understand how the major players in the malware industry fit together and how these relationships affect the ways that malware is developed, distributed and ultimately used in attacks.
We have an entire commercial class of security professional, but very few hackers. Where are our cyberwarriors? Where will they be when we really need them? With us, or against us?
Malware has become a network-borne and network-enabled threat, and as such we need to bring network controls to the fight against malware. If you can take away the ability for malware to communicate, you can effectively take away much of its power.
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