The Russian gang behind the obscure Qbot botnet have quietly built an impressive empire of 500,000 infected PCs by exploiting unpatched flaws in mainly US-based Windows XP and Windows 7 computers, researchers at security firm Proofpoint have discovered.
John E. Dunn |
08 Oct |
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Security startup Exabeam has launched itself out of stealth purdah with a new technology that tracks and risk-scores user behaviour as a way of overcoming the limitations of complex, ‘noisy' SIEM monitoring.
John E. Dunn |
07 Oct |
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After six days without service and counting, users of the popular cloud storage site Firedrive are starting to ask the dreaded question – is the service (and the widely-linked files stored on it) coming back?
John E. Dunn |
07 Oct |
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The ComputerCOP home monitoring program widely promoted by US police forces to members of the public as far back the 1990s is really a piece of poorly-engineered "spyware" home users should steer well clear of, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
John E. Dunn |
06 Oct |
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US Windows users remain badly exposed to dozens of basic software vulnerabilities, according to third quarter 2014 figures from Danish security firm Secunia. Java was by far the worst offender with 42 percent of systems unpatched against one or more flaws.
John E. Dunn |
03 Oct |
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Cheryl Cole of the hit TV show X Factor is now the most ‘dangerous' celebrity UK Internet users can punch into a search engine, according to McAfee's SiteAdvisor security filter.
John E. Dunn |
02 Oct |
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Do independent security tests make or break products? Normally not but the latest assessment of next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) by testing firm NSS Labs will make mixed reading for some of the products with one – Palo Alto's PA-3020 – described as "below average" with a rating of "caution".
John E. Dunn |
02 Oct |
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The FBI is close to allowing anonymous outsiders to use its Malware Investigator tool for the first time through a dedicated crowdsourcing portal, an official reportedly confirmed at last week's Virus Bulletin conference.
John E. Dunn |
01 Oct |
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As if tackling the malware economy wasn't already hard enough, police forces face a massive task keeping tabs on the ‘darknet' of anonymisation services that are being used by criminals to hide themselves, Europol's latest Internet Organised Crime Assessment (iOCTA) has argued.
John E. Dunn |
30 Sep |
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Remotely wiping mobile devices is proving to be a hugely popular feature for enterprises and IBM's Fiberlink division has some numbers to prove it. The firm's figures show that an average of 450 mobile devices are now being wiped every day by users of its MaaS360 cloud platform.
John E. Dunn |
28 Sep |
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Britain's banks are to start using a new alerting system that will make it easier for a range of police and government agencies to warn its members of cyberattacks and frauds in real time.
John E. Dunn |
27 Sep |
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Akamai's Prolexic division has warned of the growing threat from a Chinese toolkit that has started infecting Linux, Windows and embedded systems in order to launch DDoS attacks peaking at hundreds of Gigabits per second.
John E. Dunn |
25 Sep |
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The Bugcrowd-managed program covers the PrivatOS software that runs Blackphone's Android fork plus all network and cloud services, most though not all website flaws and vulnerabilities detected on the Silent Circle suite of secure apps used by the handset.
John E. Dunn |
25 Sep |
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The Touch ID fingerprint security that comes with Apple's iPhone 6 is no better at resisting sophisticated print-lifting attacks than the iPhone 5s on which the system made its debut, according to a researcher from mobile security firm Lookout.
John E. Dunn |
24 Sep |
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Police in Russia have reportedly arrested two cybercriminals accused of being behind an Android malware campaign that lifted funds from bank accounts used to top up smartphones.
John E. Dunn |
24 Sep |
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