Mac malware is on the rise, though slowly Mac malware, while not nearly as widespread as the Windows variety, does occasionally appear. Earlier this year we had Mac Defender. Now security research firm F-Secure has announced the discovery of another up-and-coming Trojan horse. Read More →
Foreign exchange students funnelled money to masterminds A mid-level organiser of an international online bank theft ring that relied on the Zeus Trojan faces up to 45 years in prison when he is sentenced early next year, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and possession of false IDs. Read More →
Al-Shamukh servers unreachable, say terrorism experts Al-Qaida’s top-tier Al-Shamukh chat forum is facing an ongoing electronic attack, that has rendered the forum totally unreachable, according to a terrorism expert. Read More →
Russian hacker claims he would sell root access to the domain for $3,000 The website for the open-source MySQL database was hacked and used to serve malware to visitors yesterday. Read More →
New Democratic Party seeks to foil intrusion with tough encryption One of Canada’s largest political parties is using cloud services from Salesforce.com to store information about voters and interact with them. However, worries that US government snoops could peek at sensitive information prompted the New Democratic Party to use a strong encryption approach. Read More →
New Democratic Party seeks to foil intrusion with tough encryption One of Canada’s largest political parties is using cloud services from Salesforce.com to store information about voters and interact with them. However, worries that US government snoops could peek at sensitive information prompted the New Democratic Party to use a strong encryption approach. Read More →
Official describes malware as “only proven case of actual cyber-warfare” Russia has for the first time laid the blame for the Stuxnet worm at the door of the US and Israel, describing it as “the only proven case of actual cyber-warfare.” Read More →
Social engineering attacks could be about to get a lot easier Facebook’s new Timeline will make it even easier for criminals and others to mine the social network for personal information they can use to launch malicious attacks and steal passwords, researchers said. Read More →
Modern CIOs face complex challenges as employees bring in their various smartphones and tablets to the workplace Modern CIOs and their IT department face a new, complex set of mobile device security and manageability challenges as employees bring in their various smartphones and tablets to the workplace, and as additional devices are rolled out across the enterprise. Read More →
Safego intended to flag malicious or spam followers Security firm BitDefender has launched security software for micro-blogging service Twitter that will identify which of a user’s contacts are a security threat. Read More →
