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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Scared is a strong word, but the reality, according to a Websense analysis by Patrik Runald, is that spear-phishers, like the ones that compromised a White House network last week, are implementing new evasion tactics, fundamentally changing their attack strategies, and revolutionizing the targeted threat model, giving business executives plenty of reason to worry.
Independent security researcher, web designer, and Stanford Computer Science student Feross Aboukhadijeh has developed an attack concept that exploits the fullscreen application programming interface in HTML5 in order to carry out phishing attacks.
As a number of major U.S. financial institutions deal with the aftermath of what was perhaps the largest DDoS campaign ever, researchers at FireEye are reporting on a separate phishing attack that establishes a channel of malicious communications on its victims’ computers.
Hackers interrupted Internet access in various parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran yesterday after attacking a number of the country’s infrastructure and communications companies, a state official told the Reuters news agency.
The United States District Court of Maryland ruled in favor of the Federal Trade Commission on Sept. 24, imposing a judgment of more than $163 million against the managers and directors of an enterprise whose sole function the FTC alleges was to defraud its customers with scareware.
Lashing out against what they believe is a hopelessly broken international education system, the hacker collective Team Ghostshell published some 120,000 records from a number of the world’s top universities.
Researchers working on the “physically unclonable functions found in standard PC components (PUFFIN) project” announced last week that widely used graphics processors could be the next step in online authentication.
In an analysis of 1.7 billion shortened URLs, researchers at Web of Trust found that 8.7 percent of TinyURLs and five percent of Bit.ly URLs lead to sites that received poor ratings for ‘trustworthiness’ and ‘child protection.’
A Romanian computer scientist discovered that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) was storing its members’ usernames and passwords in plaint-text on a publically accessible file transfer protocol (FTP) server.
Facebook’s active-user count is rapidly approaching one billion. The world’s largest social network, which has long been a popular target and platform for attackers, will only become a more relevant outlet for scams and other fraud as it continues to grow.
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