Viruses & Malware
Managing My Company’s Security is a Nightmare
May 17, 2013 Added by:Luis Corrons
IT Departments are very often one step behind users, and unfortunately in most cases there is no real control over all devices on the corporate network. Despite perimeter solutions still being a necessity, the corporate perimeter must now expand to include new devices (mainly smartphones and tablets) that also handle confidential corporate information.
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What Security Risks Do Healthcare Organizations Face?
May 06, 2013 Added by:Michael Fornal
Today, hospitals and healthcare organizations face many risks that they didn’t have to deal with until few years ago. This ever growing list of risks includes social engineering, redundant applications, within a network and keeping patient files secure and confidential but yet available and escalation of privileges.
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Takeaways from the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report for Software Development Teams
April 29, 2013 Added by:Rohit Sethi
The 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report has some important data for software development teams, particularly when considering the likelihood of certain threats to your system.
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Google: Black Hat or White Hat?
April 23, 2013 Added by:Larry Karisny
Google has a perfect opportunity to be a leader in cybersecurity. Google’s recent network -- and acquisitions and hires -- in Austin, Texas, is an opportunity to do security right the first time.
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Security; The non-commodity
March 21, 2013 Added by:Oliver Rochford
In an enterprise environment, a computer comes preloaded with Antivirus. For businesses, this is of course a good thing. It has sadly also had some unintended consequences – mainly to be found in the perception and expectations that customers and end-users have developed because of the commoditization of antivirus.
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Why HTC’s Settlement is a Game Changer for Secure Development
March 08, 2013 Added by:Rohit Sethi
The HTC settlement is not based on high-profile breaches. Instead, it points out: “HTC America failed to employ reasonable and appropriate security practices in the design and customization of the software on its mobile devices”.
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So APT Is China *snicker* Now What?
February 28, 2013 Added by:Krypt3ia
As RSA comes to a close and the corridors of the hall stop ringing with the acronym APT, I find myself once again looking at the problem as opposed to the hype.
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Mandiant report on Chinese APT1 cyber espionage campaign
February 19, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Few weeks after the discovery of the sophisticated cyber espionage campaign against principal US media The Mandiant® Intelligence Center™ released an shocking report that reveals an enterprise-scale computer espionage campaign dubbed APT1. The term APT1 is referred to one of the numerous cyber espionage campaign that stolen the major quantity of information all over the world.
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Adobe 0-days exploited for IEEE aerospace spearphishing attacks
February 12, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Last week Adobe released a patch for Adobe Flash that fixed a zero day vulnerability, CVE-2013-0633, that is being exploited using Microsoft Office files with embedded flash content delivered via email. The vulnerability is not isolated, it is circulating the news of a new one coded CVE-2013-0634 being exploited trough web browsers such as Firefox and Safari on Mac OSX that has been identified by ...
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AV is Dead. Long live AV!
February 11, 2013 Added by:Gabriel Bassett
Anti-virus is an oft-maligned tool in infosec. It clearly mitigates some risks. It also clearly misses many risks. But the discussion often misses some important questions: What is AV? What role should it play in our infosec posture? How do we measure if it is doing its role?
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PiceBOT crimeware hit Latin American banking
February 04, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
In the last weeks we discussed on the efficiency of exploit kits, malicious tool kits that allow to the attackers to exploit a huge quantity of vulnerabilities in victims systems. These products are largely diffused in the underground where is possible to find different tools usable for various purpose, most precious are those kit that contains code to exploit zero day vulnerabilities.
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Security Analytics: Hype or Huge?
February 01, 2013 Added by:Simon Moffatt
This complex chain of correlated "security big data", can be used in a manner of ways from post-incident analysis and trend analytics as well as for the mapping of internal data to external threat intelligence. Big data is here to stay and security analytics just needs to figure out the best way to use it...
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Android Phones in China Hit by Most Costly Malware in History
February 01, 2013 Added by:Dan Dieterle
China may be the source for a lot of international cyber attacks and malware, but they get hit by it too. 620,000 Android phones in China were infected with a nasty virus that collects personal information and begins to send costly text messages to benefit the malware maker...
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How the US is Preparing for Cyber Warfare
January 29, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The US and Israel are considered in cyber warfare context to be the most advanced nations, and according the international press they have been been involved in the creation of the first worldwide recognized cyber weapon, Stuxnet, and many other related spy tools kits such as Flame...
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Trojans for the Bundestag – German PD acquired Finfisher
January 29, 2013 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
German political platform NetzPolitik.org has now uncovered secret documents belonging to the Ministry of Finance, that the Ministry of the Interior sent to the Bundestag (the political seat of Germany) that reveals the German Federal Police’s intention to use Gamma Group’s Finfisher spyware...
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New Variant of Shylock Banking Malware Spread via Skype
January 20, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The first version of the malware demonstrated an improved methodology for injecting code into browsers to remotely control the victim's device and an improved evasion technique to prevent detection by common antivirus software...
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