Mandiant Warns Users of Ransomware Attacks That Leverage Company’s Name: Security incident response management company Mandiant became famous earlier this year after publishing an extensive report on the cyber espionage operations launched by the Chinese military. In fact, the firm has become so well known that even cybercriminals have started abusing its name in their malicious […]

Cyber-Attack Is a Systemic Risk, Exchange Study Says: A “significant” number of exchanges have fought off sabotage via the Internet in the last year and the majority of bourses worldwide say it is a systemic risk to markets, according to a study co-authored by the World Federation of Exchanges. About 53 percent of exchanges surveyed have […]

Cybercriminals Launch Tool to Repackage Legitimate Android Apps with RAT: In November 2012, a free Android remote access tool (DAT) dubbed AndroRAT surfaced. Now, experts say cybercrminals have launched a new tool that can be used to repackage the RAT with legitimate applications. When it’s installed on an Android device, AndroRAT allows an attacker to remotely […]

Use Tumblr on iPhone or iPad, give your password to the WORLD: Tumblr’s iOS app fails to log users in through a secure (SSL) server, it has emerged. As a result users’ plaintext passwords are exposed to anyone able to sniff traffic on any Wi-Fi network an iOS user happens to use to connect to […]

UK: Statement on GCHQ’s Alleged Interception of Communications under the US PRISM Programme: After obtaining information from the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which is the center for their government’s Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) activities, and the NSA and U.S. counterparts in Congress, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament has issued this statement of findings as to whether […]

Google Glass Hacked With QR Code Photobombs: Researchers at the security firm Lookout Mobile say they developed an attack last spring that could compromise Google’s device when the user merely took a photo that captured a malicious QR code, the square graphic labels often used to link smartphone users to websites and by Google Glass to […]

Oracle releases July patch batch… with 27 fixes for remote exploits: Oracle has pushed out a quarterly patch batch of 89 updates that mean almost all of its enterprise software products need updating for one reason or another.Craig Young, a security researcher at Tripwire, noted that most of the vulnerabilities were picked up by third-party researchers. […]

Much Security Spending Focused on Network Instead of Database: The study, sponsored by Oracle, was achieved by CSO Custom Solutions Group, and fielded responses from 110 companies from a series of verticals, including a tech industry, a financial courtesy and government. More than two-thirds of IT confidence resources are focused on safeguarding a network layer. Less […]

My Chemical Romance Twitter Account Hacked: The official Twitter account of My Chemical Romance (MCRofficial) – the famous American alternative rock band that called it quits in March 2013 – has been hacked. The account’s profile description was changed to read “soon…,” falsely leading the band’s over 600,000 Twitter followers to believe that they might be […]

msi.com hacked with kristians1.net: The website of msi.com (a major computer manufacturer) has been hacked and is serving up malware, despite MSI being informed of the problem. Injected code pointing to the domain kristians1.net (83.143.81.2, ServeTheWorld AS Norway) has been injected into the site and is serving up an exploit kit (report here). This is not the […]