Decoy adware sparks garbled print job mayhem
A double barrel malware threat is causing havoc across enterprises in the US, India and Europe by forcing printers to spew ‘garbled’ text on reams of paper.
Stories by Liam Tung
US DoD looks to fence-in "unconstrained" mobile pilots
The US Department of Defense (DoD) will begin implementing amongst “small populations” its future enterprise-wide model for securing mobile devices, applications and networks.
AV just doesn’t work for targeted attacks: Schneier
Antivirus vendors missed Flame, Stuxnet and Duqu because they never considered them a priority, not because the attackers were superior, says security technologist Bruce Schneier.
Amnesty HK site visitors were slugged with IE zero day
The zero day Internet Explorer (IE) attack McAfee discovered on June 1 was aimed at visitors of Amnesty International’s Hong Kong website, says Symantec.
CSO: the art of catching the board's ear
The success of a CSO and the enterprise’s security strategy depends on awareness at the C-level of not just the threats, but their implications, making communications and building alliances outside IT the key to a CSO’s success. The battle to secure data has become a more vicious and dynamic beast today, according to Mike Rothman, CEO of analyst firm Securosis, who says attackers, including actors who may have “very deep pockets” that tilt the balance of power in their favour. Add these to the chaos of hacktivists, well-organised cybercriminals, social media and Cloud computing, and the challenges that CSOs face in protecting corporate data become clear.
Countdown: Net ‘crippled’ for 8k Aussies on July 9
In less than 20 days around 8,000 Australian Internet users may have their Internet connections “severely crippled”.
Schneier: mandate cyber weapons self-destruct
If cyber is the new space for dog fights, then the world, and in particular the US, needs to adopt a treaty that mandates the weapons self-destruct, says security philosopher Bruce Schneier.
Spend more on cops, less on antivirus, say researchers
Britain is spending far too much on security software and not enough on law enforcement in the war on cybercrime, Cambridge University security researcher Ross Anderson has told CSO.com.au.
Smart meter data a huge privacy risk, says EU watchdog
Europe’s independent privacy watchdog is pushing for tight controls over smart meter data collection, fearing the data could be used to exploit and harm consumers.
Now League of Legends hit by hackers
Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, is warning all its 32 million users to change their passwords after hackers breached its western European, Nordic and eastern European database.
AMD video cards may cause BSOD in high security environments
Organisations running high security environments are being advised to avoid AMD or ATI video cards which could trigger a ‘blue screen of death’ (BSOD) freeze due to a failure to implement important anti-exploitation technologies.
Google to warn 'suspected' state-sponsored targets
Google will notify users when it suspects they are being targeted by nation states or their private contractors via a pink ribbon at the top of the page (of a signed-in user).
Flame Nightmare: stolen Microsoft certs spoof Microsoft Update
The stolen Microsoft certificates it revoked on Monday were used by the Flame malware to launch a man-in-the-middle (MITM) ‘spoofing’ attack on the Microsoft Update security update system, according to F-Secure.
CloudFlare boss’s Gmail hacked in redirect attack on 4Chan
Content distribution network CloudFlare reset all its customer API keys over the weekend after its CEO’s personal and corporate Gmail was breached in an “elaborate” attack on one customer, which appears to have been the 4Chan message board.
McAfee’s AV study shows why Win8’s Defender is needed
McAfee’s estimate that 17 per cent of PC users worldwide do not run AV is why Microsoft should extend its Windows 8 enhanced Defender-by-default to older and even pirated Windows.