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CoverItLive, a live-blogging platform owned by Demand Media, has acknowledged that it has been the victim of a cyber attack and that certain information has been accessed without authorization.CoverItLive describes itself as an enterprise-class live blogging platform designed to handle hundreds of thousands of simultaneous readers, and is used by thousands of outlets to cover events as they happen.
24 Million Customers Potentially Exposed After Attackers Breach Internal Systems at Internet RetailerZappos.Com, best-known for selling shoes and clothing online and its top-notch customer service and corporate culture, appears to be the latest victim of a cyber attack resulting in a data breach.
Denis Maslennikov, a mobile security expert from Kaspersky Lab, has discovered what he says is the first IRC bot for Android he has seen.While he wasn’t able to determine how the file is being propagated, he said that after installation, the malicious Android application disguises itself as "MADDEN NFL 12", a mobile version of the popular NFL football video game.
Researchers at Websense uncovered an effort by spammers to target mobile devices using what are known as quick response codes for URLs.Quick response (QR) codes are a type of matrix barcode that are often used by mobile devices to bring people to a particular URL. The codes can be read by any mobile device with a camera and a QR reader.
As a security guy I sometimes have friends and relatives asking me for professional advice, like “I lost my iPhone, can you help me look for it?” or “How do I delete my browser history, you know, in case my wife checks up on me?” It’s not easy being a technical wizard amongst the masses.
Fresh off news that Splunk has filed for an IPO on Thursday, Netherlands-based AVG Technologies today filed an F-1 Registration Statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with a proposed initial public offering (IPO). Similar to an S-1, an F-1 is required by foreign companies looking to sell securities in the United States.
In a talk at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) entitled “Smart Hacking For Privacy,” researchers Dario Carluccio and Stephan Brinkhaus described their experiences with smart meters from the German energy provider Discovergy. They said they could guess what’s on your digital TV based on unencrypted signals from the smart meters. They could also spoof the energy usage reported from the meter, a far more serious concern.
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.“Why was there more news about hacks, and why would anyone be surprised?”Okay, that’s two questions, but the point is that companies have been working without rest to secure their data. While Internet security technology has improved, companies are slow to catch up. Hackers, on the other...
Sophos has released a new edition to its line of network protection offerings, announcing today that its gateway appliances have been adopted for virtual use. They’ve simplified the pricing, with a fixed cost based per user / per year, making the virtual protection available to any company, of any size.
Threats have evolved. Most security technologies have not. Companies need to look at new, innovative security solutions to effectively combat increasingly sophisticated threats in today’s dynamically changing IT environments.
The Day The Internet Will Break For Millions—A Looming Deadline in the Aftermath of 'Operation Ghost Click'
Following a series of highly publicized cyber attacks that occurred over the holidays, Stratfor today launched a rebuilt version of its website.During the attacks, hackers stole and released personal information of Stratfor customers, including credit card data and hashed passwords. Attackers also managed to destroy company servers in what, Stratfor says, appeared to be an attempt to silence the company.
Latest Enchancements Help Developers Make Android Devices More Secure and More Enterprise-ready.Mocana, a vendor that centers itself on smart device security, announced on Wednesday that it has released two products updates aimed at helping developers secure devices running Android 4.x “Ice Cream Sandwich”. One product protects data-at-rest (DAR), while the other offers a stable VPN client for remote connections from Android devices.
Lawsuit Alleges That Symantec's Lineup of Performance Utilities are “Scareware”, and Designed to Report Problems, Even if None Exist.
The "Lords of Dharmaraja", the same group of hackers who claimed to have compromised systems maintained by India’s Military Intelligence, leading to threats of exposing Symantec source code and details surrounding intercept operations that leveraged
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A threat actor is claiming the exfiltration of millions of records from McDonald’s, TCS, Vodafone, and other large organizations.
Atalanta's Argo product is now being used to prove the resilience of Viasat’s satellite communications network.
