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Microsoft has dismissed a lawsuit against a company it contended a month ago was at the heart of the now-defunct Kelihos botnet.In September, Microsoft named Dominique Piatti and his company dotFree Group SRO as controllers of the botnet. The move marked the first time Microsoft had named a defendant in one of its botnet-related civil suits.
Last week, Duqu, the next-step toward the next-generation Stuxnet, was revealed by researchers, although its pedigree and the intended target remains the subject of much debate.
What Can we Learn From Some of the Significant Hacks in 2011?As we round the corner to the last quarter of 2011 and move into the busy holiday season (for hackers too), it’s a good time to look back at some of the hacks that made headlines this year. And 2011 was a monumental year for hackers. Businesses as well as consumers felt the brunt of cybercrime by the millions, some of them a few times over. Here’s a look...
Tru.ly, a provider of Internet-based age verification services, today released an age verification API that lets developers integrate age verification into apps and authenticate the age of an online user based on government issued data.
IP Blacklisting is not as Black or White as it sounds. IP Intelligence Should to be Used to Help flag Malicious Attack Sources.
The company behind the iconic Snort, Sourcefire, has increased its Intrusion Detection and Prevention line to include Red Hat Enterprise’s virtualization offerings. With this addition, Sourcefire’s virtual offerings now cover the markets most used platforms including VMWare and Xen.
SecurityWeek will host a live webcast with Symantec this week on the topic of Duqu, newly discovered malware considered to be the precursor to the next Stuxnet.Note: This Webcast Was Recorded and Is Now Available on Demand Here.
Smart or Not, the Grid is an Important Piece of our Critical Infrastructure that Must be Carefully and Thoroughly Secured.
According to local Japanese media, defense information and nuclear power plant design and safety plans were taken during the attack on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which was discovered in August, and disclosed in September.Japan’s largest defense contractor said in August that it “would continue to strengthen” existing security measures, but believed that it had contained the cyber attack.
Spammers have turned to creating their own URL shortening services to better conceal links in their messages.Researchers at Symantec recently uncovered a spam gang with at least 80 URL shortening sites, all of which used a similar naming pattern as well as the .info top-level domain. According to the company, the spammers are using free, open source URL shortening scripts to operate these sites. After creating shortened URLs with their own service, the spammers then blast out their messages with...
Financially, RIM continues to be a healthy company. But if doesn't “think different” about its network strategy, its customers may think different about their choice of handset vendor.
SSL Renegotiation Vulnerability Exploited via New Attack Tool to Launch DoS AttacksA German hacker group has released a new proof-of-concept tool for denial of service (DoS) attacks that exploits a weakness in SSL.
Taiwan has taken the top spot as the world’s dominant source of attack traffic, according to a new report from Akamai Technologies. In its State of the Internet report for the second quarter of the year, the company found 10 percent of global attack traffic originated from Taiwan, up from 9.1 percent in Q1. Myanmar, the former number one, slipped by second place with 9.1 percent, while the United States rounded out the top three with 8.3.
Commtouch announced today that it has appointed Shlomi Yanai as chief executive officer.
A recent study focused on the concerns and challenges within the IT industry revealed that enterprise-level participants lack confidence in their organization’s overall security posture, citing staffing as one of the main reasons.
Radiant Logic recently announced that it was forming a working relationship with open source identity and access management vendor ForgeRock, merging Forge’s OpenAM tool with their own RadiantOne offering for businesses looking for easier access to SSO solutions.Radiant Logic is one of the smaller market players known for identity and context virtualization.
According to a report from CNN, the U.S.
AntiSec Raids Law Enforcement in Support of "Occupy Wall Street" MovementOn Friday, AntiSec supporters released a massive cache of personal and confidential information, after announcing the successful compromise of several law enforcement websites. The actions, a statement said, were done to support the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Two unknown sources close to the NSADAQ investigation have told Reuters that malicious software that worked its way into a web-based communications platform at NASDAQ last year allowed the attackers to monitor communications between busin
There are thousands of script kiddies, launching hundreds of thousands of automated attacks - at least one of these will hit your site.
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As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk.
A total of 22 patches were releaased, a majority for code execution, privilege escalation, and information disclosure vulnerabilities.
Late amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would give ministers new powers to restrict risky technology providers as supply chain attacks intensify.
