'Lurid' malware hits Russia, CIS countries
The latest espionage-related hacking campaign detailed by security vendor Trend Micro is most notable for the country it does not implicate: China.
Jeremy Kirk | 23 Sep | Read more
The latest espionage-related hacking campaign detailed by security vendor Trend Micro is most notable for the country it does not implicate: China.
Jeremy Kirk | 23 Sep | Read more
Adobe issued a critical update today for its Flash Player software. The patch fixes six security vulnerabilities, at least one of which is a zero-day vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild.
Tony Bradley | 23 Sep | Read more
Just when you were starting to get ahead of the curve when it comes to locking down the network and protecting PCs, everything went mobile. Not just laptops--but tablets, and smartphones that run unique operating systems and applications on completely different hardware. To help you combat the dramatic <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/229145/malware_spikes_spam_plummets_says_report.html">rise in mobile security threats</a>, McAfee has developed <a href="http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/enterprise-mobility-management.aspx">Enterprise Mobility Management</a>.
Tony Bradley | 21 Sep | Read more
Talk about disconnect! Analysts, security engineers and other infosec geeks aim for Swiss-watch precision, because one little mistake means the bad guys win. We want people to take this seriously, right? So why do certain marketing and PR departments spread a load of what my father, a man more polite than me, would have called "bulldust"?
Stilgherrian | 13 Sep | Read more
Young males in emerging markets are the most likely to fall victim to cybercrime, whose total cost per year is approaching the scale of illegal drug trafficking worldwide, according to a study by the Norton division of Symantec.
Tim Greene | 08 Sep | Read more
IT people who try to secure mobile devices in a big company face three big conceptual problems.
Kevin Fogarty | 07 Sep | Read more
A Finnish penetration testing company has released a free tool it says can detect all variants of five major families of malicious software that steal online banking credentials.
Jeremy Kirk | 06 Sep | Read more
As AVG Ambassador Tony Anscombe explained the rational behind some of the new features in AVG Internet Security 2012, released today, I couldn't help but think of the bouncer at one of my favourite local pubs.
Stilgherrian | 01 Sep | Read more
Big business and government need to invest in data forensics and skills if they intend on fending off targeted attacks, according to analyst firm Gartner.
AusCERT general manager Graham Ingram has questioned the wisdom of Australia's National E-Health Strategy plans to make medical records available online, pointing to the difficulty of securing end-users' computers.
Stilgherrian | 25 Aug | Read more
A dangerous piece of malicious code responsible for stealing money from online bank accounts is being updated with new functions after its source code was leaked earlier this year, according to security researchers.
Jeremy Kirk | 25 Aug | Read more
WikiLeaks made public thousands of US diplomatic cables on Wednesday hours after its Californian DNS host was ordered to hand to authorities everything it had on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
Researchers have uncovered evidence that the infamous Zeus login-stealing Trojan has been blended with the Ramnit worm to create hybrid malware that can attack online bank accounts while spreading across networks.
John E. Dunn | 24 Aug | Read more
Attacks on Android by malware writers have jumped 76 percent over the last three months, making it the most assaulted mobile operating system on earth during the period, according to a report by cybersecurity solutions maker McAfee.
John P. Mello Jr. | 24 Aug | Read more
Recent efforts by Microsoft and law enforcement to take down the biggest spamming botnets may have helped fight pharmaceutical companies but they have had little effect on overall spam levels.