New malware program used in attacks against energy sector companies
A new malware program is being used to do reconnaissance for targeted attacks against companies in the energy sector.
Lucian Constantin | 01 Apr | Read more
A new malware program is being used to do reconnaissance for targeted attacks against companies in the energy sector.
Lucian Constantin | 01 Apr | Read more
Google is teaming up with Symantec and others to enter the ‘cold storage’ market for information that needs to be kept but isn’t accessed frequently.
US, UK and Germany are the most targeted countries
John E Dunn | 07 Mar | Read more
Coordinated global enforcement efforts reduced the number of financial Trojans by more than half -- 53 percent -- in 2014, according to a new report from Symantec, and phishing email rates fell 74 percent.
Maria Korolov | 06 Mar | Read more
Proactive efforts to stop the rate of financially-targeted Trojans saw a 53 percent decline in infection rates during 2014 but ever-smarter malware is learning to evade new security measures, Symantec has warned after an analysis that found Australia suffered over 114,000 financial phishing attacks last year.
David Braue | 05 Mar | Read more
It seems there can be further indignity foisted onto people who've had their iPad or iPhone stolen.
Jeremy Kirk | 03 Mar | Read more
Researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday said that they had found evidence that implies attackers have exploited a security vulnerability in the Superfish adware and a slew of other programs.
Gregg Keizer | 27 Feb | Read more
European law enforcement agencies seized command-and-control servers used by Ramnit, a malware program that steals online banking credentials, FTP passwords, session cookies and personal files from victims.
Lucian Constantin | 26 Feb | Read more
As HP reports numbers, questions will be on its split ... GOPers on FCC want to delay net neutrality vote ... Google deals for Softcard ... and more tech news.
IDG News Service staff | 24 Feb | Read more
Australians are happy to compromise their privacy to get new mobile apps, are far less concerned about mobile viruses than residents of other countries, and think they know more about what personal information an app is sharing than they actually do, according to a new study of mobile users' app privacy perceptions.
David Braue | 05 Feb | Read more
Growing concerns about the security of the evolving Internet of Things (IoT) have elicited a variety of industry responses, the latest being a push by Verizon Enterprise Solutions to scale its digital-certificate creation and management tools to support IoT deployments with tens of millions of connected units.
David Braue | 03 Feb | Read more
A peer-to-peer botnet called ZeroAccess came out of a six-month hibernation this month after having survived two takedown attempts by law enforcement and security researchers.
Lucian Constantin | 31 Jan | Read more
Website owners take notice: In weeks, Mozilla products including its popular Firefox browser will stop trusting an unknown number of SSL certificates that were issued using old root CA certificates with 1024-bit RSA keys.
Lucian Constantin | 30 Jan | Read more
The traditional anti-virus scan seems to be close to extinction, with barely one in ten PC users bothering to run them regularly, or at all, according to the latest analysis from security firm OPSWAT.
John E Dunn | 30 Jan | Read more
Keylogging malware that may have been used by the NSA shares signficant portions of code with a component of Regin, a sophisticated platform that has been used to spy on businesses, government institutions and private individuals for years.
Lucian Constantin | 27 Jan | Read more