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Anyone who was ever concerned by the concept of hacking conventions such as Black Hat — which has evolved into a reputable venue for security defenders — should brace themselves: An event called MalCon is on the horizon, which will provide a fine venue for malware creators to hone their craft, as well as, theoretically, [...] Read more »
A lawmaker has uncovered that 1,715 files containing South Korean military secrets, including war plans against North Korea, were stolen from infected Army-issued computers.
Song Young-sun, a member of the South Korean parliament, who sits on the National Defense Committee, asked the Defense Ministry recently to release details about the security breach.
According to the information, the [...] Read more »
Hackers are using tales of dead celebrities to build out Zeus botnets by duping users into compromising their own PCs, security experts said today.
The list of celebrities — actors and singers for the most part, with an occasional sports star tossed in — range from Anniston (Jennifer) and Cruise (Tom) to West (Kanye) and Z [...] Read more »
Spanish authorities investigating the crash of Spanair flight 5022 in Madrid have found that malware may have contributed to the accident, which occurred two years ago, killing 154 people on board. Only 18 survived the crash and subsequent fire.
The Spanish agency charged with investigating the accident has listed the official cause as pilot error, because [...] Read more »
Virus authors have developed a strain of malware that attempts to con users into uninstalling legitimate security packages.
A rogue package called AnVi Antivirus generates a cheeky pop-up message suggesting that legitimate apps are “uncertified” and ought to be removed. Failure to take action would result in drastically degraded computer performance, marks are disingenuously warned.
Many malware [...] Read more »
Cameron Diaz is the most dangerous celebrity on the Web, antivirus company McAfee said Thursday.
Search strings using Diaz’s name have a one-in-ten chance of coming up with a site infected with or spreading malware, said Dave Marcus, McAfee’s director of security research and communication. Search for “Cameron Diaz and screensavers,” and the risk doubles, Marcus [...] Read more »
A majority of security software suites still fail to detect attacks on PCs even after the style of attack has been known for some time, underscoring how cyber criminals still have the upper hand.
NSS Labs, which conducts tests of security software suites, tested how security packages from 10 major companies detect so-called “client-side exploits.” [...] Read more »
A hack attack that can expose users to malware exploits has infected more than 1 million webpages, at least two of which belong to Apple.
The SQL injection attacks bombard the websites of legitimate companies with database commands that attempt to add hidden links that lead to malware exploits. While most of the sites that fell [...] Read more »
As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months, a security expert said today.
“This is one of the biggest infections for drive-by download attacks that I’ve seen,” said Wayne Huang, co-founder and CTO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Armorize Technologies, a Web application security company.
Network [...] Read more »
McAfee recently published its McAfee Threat Report: Second Quarter 2010 revealing a variety of interesting and relevant details about the current state of the malware threat. The McAfee report contains cause for concern and demonstrates why it’s more important than ever that organizations not let their computer and network security guard down.
The report finds [...] Read more »
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