Blog Posts Tagged with "malware"
Zeus Malware Targeting Facebook, Gmail and Yahoo Users
May 16, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"We've recently discovered a series of attacks being carried out by a P2P variant of the Zeus platform against some of the internet’s leading online services... The attacks are targeting users of Facebook, Google Mail, Hotmail and Yahoo – offering rebates and new security measures..."
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Skype Malware Campaign Spreading Poison Ivy Trojan
May 16, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Malware researcher Dancho Danchev is reporting a widespread social engineering campaign on Skype that is spreading a variant of the Poison Ivy Trojan. Less than half of the 42 commercial antivirus solutions surveyed are able to detect the Trojan's signature...
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NIST Workshop: The Technical Aspects of Botnets
May 16, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
NIST seeks to engage all stakeholders to identify the available and needed technologies and tools to recognize, prevent, and remediate botnets; explore current and future efforts to develop botnet metrics and methodologies for measuring and reporting botnet metrics over time...
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Symantec Reverse Engineers OS X Flashback Malware
May 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Symantec researchers reverse engineered components of the Flashback malware that recently infected more than 600,000 Mac systems and reveal that it was designed in part as a highly profitable ad-clicking operation that could be net the Trojan's creators $10,000 per day...
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Securing Your Company Against BYOD-Created Threats
May 14, 2012 Added by:Ashley Furness
The increasing emergence of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies has both good and bad implications. Here are four strategies your company should implement to keep data secure while supporting employees' choice to use their own laptops, smartphones and tablets in the workplace...
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Malware Spreading Through Hotel Internet Connections
May 10, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The FBI and other agencies warn that malicious actors are targeting travelers with pop-up windows while establishing an Internet connection in their hotel rooms, infecting laptops with malicious software. Anyone who has been a target of this attack should contact the FBI and IC3...
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DHS Comments on DNSChanger Malware Deadline
May 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Please act now. The clean servers maintained by the private sector in coordination with the FBI will expire on July 9, 2012. Internet users who have the DNSChanger malware and whose IS) has moved them to one of the clean servers, may not have access to the Internet after this date...
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It's Summer Blockbuster Season Again - Time to get Prepared
May 08, 2012 Added by:Lee Munson
One of the most used tricks that black hat hackers use during this time of year is to piggyback off of the advertising of big budget movies. There are a lot of ways that you can leverage attacks with this type of advertising and believe me they use all of them...
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Trojans Dominate New Malware Development Sampled
May 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
In the first quarter of 2012 alone, six million new malware samples were created, following the trend of increasingly of previous years. Trojans set a record as the preferred category of cybercriminals for carrying out information theft, representing 80 percent of new malware...
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BYOD is really BYOPMD
May 07, 2012 Added by:Phil Klassen
BYOD should make the security society very nervous. For those who still believe that personal devices will never be a part of your network, remember, never say never. Regardless if non-corporate devices have accessed your network or not, the first step is acceptable use policy...
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A Tribute to Our Oldest and Dearest Friend - The Firewall Part 2
May 07, 2012 Added by:Ian Tibble
Nine times out of ten, when you ask to see firewall rules, faces will change in the room from "this is a nice time wasting meeting, but maybe I'll learn something about security" to mild-to-severe discomfort. Discomfort - because there is no hiding place any more...
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Firewalls and Anti-Virus Aren't Dead - Should They Be?
May 05, 2012 Added by:Beau Woods
Decreasing the effectiveness of firewalls and antivirus in is the way they're used. Because of the massive number of connections in and out of a network, definitions of what is and is not allowed and exactly how to allow or deny network connections have become a sprawling mess...
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RedKit Private Exploit Tool Emerges in the Wild
May 04, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"RedKit is armed with two of the most popular exploits... The first exploit is a fairly obfuscated PDF file that exploits the LibTIFF vulnerability..." The second is the "latest Java exploit, dealing with the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability..."
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Try Application White Listing to Mitigate Malware
May 04, 2012 Added by:Paul Paget
Unless you run a network that has no Internet connection and a “no disks” policy, the only way to against malware is to employ application white listing, which protects the software that controls the behavior of your computers. If the software is not on the white list, it won’t run...
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Why We Still Need Firewalls and AV
May 02, 2012 Added by:Wendy Nather
It's become trendy to talk about how ineffective some commoditized security products are, classic firewalls and AV being the poster children. One of Josh Corman's favorite points is that "we never retire any security controls." As I am of Josh, I think he's wrong on this...
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On the Growth of Identity Theft
May 01, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
It is clear that criminal organizations are devoting substantial resources in this sector. An increasing component of organized crime is specializing in this kind of activity characterized by high profits and low risks compared to traditional criminal activities...
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