Christopher Brook

Apple continued its recent parade of patches by releasing an update for Quicktime yesterday, fixing 17 different security vulnerabilities, several which could lead to remote code execution.

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Apple finally pushed out a patch yesterday for users of its older operating system, 10.5 Leopard, protecting them from the much-discussed Flashback Trojan. Read more »

The Pentagon on Friday invited a slew of government contractors to meet and share classified information on cyber threats going forward, part of an initiative that the department hopes will reduce the risk of intrusions to government systems. Read more »

Amnesty International’s United Kingdom website was compromised and hosting the potent Gh0st RAT Trojan earlier this week, according to research conducted by security firm Websense. Read more »

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has become increasingly concerned over the usage of the mostly-anonymous payment network Bitcoin by hackers and cybercriminals, according to an unclassified report obtained by Wired this week. Read more »

The Dutch government has asked DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority that was broken into last summer, for €8.7 million ($11M USD) to recoup money it spent buying new certificates, according to several Dutch news reports. The Dutch interior ministry asked for €1 million in January, yet the number “has now risen to €8.7 million,” according to the company’s curator Rocco Mulder in an interview with Dutch news site nu.nl.

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In an attempt to clear the cybersecurity air, the United States and the People's Republic of China agreed Monday to work in tandem to prevent future cyber threats. Meeting at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and General Liang Guanglie, China’s Minister of National Defense, insisted the two nations should be seen as equals and according to Guanglie, “build a new state-to-state relationship that’s not a stereotype of two major powers predestined for conflict.”

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Search giant Google is in negotiations with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the size of a fine it will pay. This, after the company was found in breach of privacy controls in Apple’s Safari browser earlier this year. Read more »

In Syria, the crackdown on political activists continues, with reports of pro-Syrians using malware that targets and spies on users attempting to use popular VOIP software Skype. Read more »

UPDATE: More than 1,000 Wordpress blogs are currently being infected by a form of malware that has ‘piggybacked’ its way onto the blogging platform using the Wordpress automatic update function, a security researcher has discovered. Read more »