Despite claims the phishing email that netted RSA’s staff in its SecurID breach was a crude example of social engineering, RSA boss Art Coviello insists it was highly sophisticated and would have fooled even the most skilled PC operator.
Liam Tung |
05 Oct |
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IT professionals should stop mocking their users for doing seemingly stupid things like opening phishing emails, according to IBM. These un-patchable people could turn out to be the canary that flags the next Advanced Persistent Threat attack.
Liam Tung |
30 Sep |
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The hackers that breached South Korean SK Communications in July, gaining access to 35 million Nate and CyWorld social network users, executed a cunning attack that relied on compromised infrastructure spanning several countries.
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29 Sep |
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Microsoft has pulled off its third technical and legal botnet takedown, this time aimed at the Kelihos botnet and a domain responsible for the recent spate of MacDefender malware attacks on Mac users.
Liam Tung |
28 Sep |
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Despite widespread security concerns by smartphone users, 82 per cent do not have any security products installed, a survey by research group NPD has found.
Liam Tung |
26 Sep |
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Adobe’s security team is rushing to deploy a multiple operating system patch for a cross-site scripting Flash Player flaw that has reportedly been used in targeted attacks.
Liam Tung |
22 Sep |
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Hacked Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar on Monday filed for bankruptcy, its US authentication company parent Vasco announced.
Liam Tung |
21 Sep |
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Microsoft’s anti-malware program Windows Defender will be revamped in Windows 8 with a host of features drawn from its other platform, Security Essentials.
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19 Sep |
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A child protection department under the UK’s peak serious crime fighting agency forgot to encrypt submissions made through its website.
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16 Sep |
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Despite massive funding increases and greater cooperation from federal and state law enforcement agencies, Australia's security chief predicts the intelligence community will continue to struggle with new technology.
Liam Tung |
15 Sep |
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A 27 year-old bank cashier was fined £800 (A$1,226) yesterday for using her position at Barclays Bank to profile a customer who was the victim of a sex attack by the cashier’s husband.
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14 Sep |
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Researchers analysing the impact of domain typo-squatting on Fortune 500 companies found that 151 lost sensitive information by senders using mis-spelt email addresses.
Liam Tung |
12 Sep |
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The world’s fifth largest issuer of SSL (secure sockets layer) certificates, Global Sign, has stopped issuing certificates following a claim that its systems were compromised.
Liam Tung |
08 Sep |
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The so-called Comodo Hacker has claimed credit for the breach of Dutch SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate authority DigiNotar, now known to be behind 531 forged certificates.
Liam Tung |
07 Sep |
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Sony has named US government cyber security czar Phillip Reitinger its first chief information security officer (CISO).
The newly filled post was one of Sony’s key responses to its first major customer data breach in which 77 million customers personal details were compromised.
Liam Tung |
07 Sep |
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