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Saudi Arabia-based Aramco was attacked earlier this month by malware that targeted some 30,000 workstations. According to the state-owned group which controls all of Saudi Arabia's oil production, things have been cleaned up in short time, and oil production itself was not impacted.
Security researchers from FireEye have discovered a new zero-day Java vulnerability that is being targeted in the wild. According to FireEye researcher Atif Mushtaq, the latest version of Java 7 is vulnerable, but some reports say Java 6 and earlier versions may not be vulnerable.
ROME - (AFP) - Italy's police said Saturday they have seized so far this year 52 million counterfeit items, including train tickets, smartphones, condoms and detergents, with much of them coming from China. The financial police's counter-fraud division said 97 members of organised criminal gangs, 41 percent of them Italian, were arrested during the same first seven months of 2012 in connection with the counterfeit goods.
On Thursday, law enforcement officials with the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) in the Philippines arrested more than 300 in a cybercrime sweep. The arrests took place in several subdivisions, and the operation is being hailed as the biggest cybercrime operation in the nation’s history.
Security researchers from Websense have discovered a new malware campaign targeting BlackBerry customers. The malicious emails say that the recipient has successfully created a Blackberry ID, and attempts to infect their system via a malicious attachment. "To enjoy the full benefits of your BlackBerry ID, please follow the instructions in the attached file," the email reads.
DARPA Opens the Door to ‘Plan X’ ProposalsIn June, SecurityWeek reported on a plan from the secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which will improve the government’s cyberwar capabilities. As expected, DARPA has said they will hold a meeting next month to solicit ideas.
NEW DELHI - (AFP) - India on Friday defended itself against accusations of heavy-handed online censorship, saying it had been successful in blocking content blamed for fuelling ethnic tensions.
On Thursday, researchers at FireEye claimed a definitive link between Gauss and Flame, based on the connection between command and control (C&C) servers.
SAN FRANCISCO - (AFP) - Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a new corporate logo for the first time in 25 years as the US tech giant geared up for a series of big product launches. It features a symbol made up of four separate colored squares -- reminiscent of the old Windows logo featuring wavy squares -- next to the name of the company. The previous logo was simply the italicized name.
The password hints saved in Windows 7 and Windows 8 can be retrieved and decoded by attackers, two researchers have found.
Google is looking to go proactive on privacy issues. The search giant recently posted a job listing for a data privacy engineer to work within their Privacy Red Team. The listing is notable, given that Google settled a privacy case with the FTC last week to the tune of $22.5 million.
Mocana, a provider of software and network services for securing mobile devices, today announced it has secured $25 million in series D funding that will be used to drive the company's two-pronged strategy for mobile security.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas say they have created a piece of malware that can pull together normally benign code from other programs to avoid detection.
On Wednesday, Sophos announced the availability of AP 5, their USB accessory to RED (Remote Ethernet Device), which will turn the networking appliance into a secured wireless access point.
A Vulnerability Management (VM) program is commonly defined as the “cyclical practice of identifying, classifying, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities" . According to Gartner’s report , the purpose of the remediation phase is to harden the environment, prior to eliminating the vulnerability, by using desktop and network security tools, while the mitigation phase role is to eliminate the root causes of the vulnerability by applying a patch to the system.
On Tuesday, prosecutors asked a federal judge to delay sentencing for Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known to some as Sabu, for his role as a cooperating witness. The curt agreed, delaying sentencing for six months.
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Malicious hackers are targeting SAP applications at an alarming pace, according to warnings from Onapsis and Flashpoint.
Cisco announces Hypershield, an AI-native and cloud-native enterprise security solution with a wide range of capabilities.
ICS malware Fuxnet allegedly used by Ukrainian Blackjack group to disrupt industrial sensors and other systems belonging to a Moscow infrastructure firm.
