The bloated, modular Flame malware may or may not be the biggest threat since Stuxnet, but its tardy discovery highlights the limits of antivirus in a world where governments are investing heavily in offensive cyber capabilities.
Liam Tung |
31 May |
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An apparent trio of ‘hackers’ operating under the LatinHackTeam banner has claimed the Australian Government’s Department of Health and Ageing eHealth education site as its 13,789th ‘defacement‘ victim.
Liam Tung |
30 May |
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Iranians and Syrians that search the web for a popular censorship evading proxy, ‘Simurgh’, are at risk of downloading a fake, trojanised version of the privacy tool.
Liam Tung |
30 May |
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Drug dealers that sell prescription steroids, opioids and other “Schedule 8” controlled drugs, are exploiting the lack of consistency in legitimate Australian prescription documents, according to a Queensland Health investigator.
Liam Tung |
29 May |
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Email attacks which contain malicious attachments consistently fell on weekends, according to an analysis of the first quarter of 2012 by US security and malware analytics vendor, FireEye.
Liam Tung |
28 May |
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One of the operators behind the mega spamming Bredolab botnet, which Dutch authorities took down in 2010, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment in Armenia.
Liam Tung |
24 May |
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Half a million people may receive a warning from Google today that their computer or router is showing signs of infection by the infamous DNSChanger malware.
Liam Tung |
23 May |
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The US Department of Defense’s latest assessment of China leaves little to the imagination about which country’s it thinks is the greatest cyber threat to US private sector and defence industry organisations.
Liam Tung |
21 May |
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For today’s Mexican cartel Facebook and an IP address is as invaluable as machine guns and armour-piercing bullets, says Brad Barker, president and founder of US intelligence contractor, HALO corporation.
Liam Tung |
18 May |
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A 21 year-old British man, Gareth Crosskey, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months in prison for hacking one US citizen’s Facebook account over six months in 2011.
Liam Tung |
18 May |
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The US Government, like most others, is openly building up offensive ‘cyber’ capabilities, but the arms race is on before the world has even seen a real cyber attack, says Robert Clark, operational attorney for the U.S. Army Cyber Command.
Liam Tung |
17 May |
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Yesterday CSO Australia reported that a new variant of a virus called Win32.Rmnet.16 was taking an abnormally high number of Australian victims.
Liam Tung |
16 May |
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Dr Web, the Russian antivirus firm that raised alarm over Flashback’s Mac malware outbreak, claims over 10,000 Australian Windows users have been infected by a single botnet using a new variant of the old Ramnit virus.
Liam Tung |
15 May |
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Adobe is partially reversing a decision not to patch flaws in Illustrator and Photoshop 5 and earlier following outcry from customers.
Liam Tung |
14 May |
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The Pirate Bay (TPB) has distanced itself from a distributed denial of attack against British ISP Virgin Media which was amongst several forced to block the torrent link magnet site.
Liam Tung |
11 May |
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