Keylogging Version of Anti-Censorship Software Simurgh Found
Citizen Lab found a compromised version of an anti-censorship tool that’s popular in Iran and Syria circulating with a backdoor installed.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Infographic: How Mobile Apps Invade Your Privacy
Combine the rapid adoption of mobile devices with the behavior of some companies developing applications for them, and what do you get? A pocket-sized, portable privacy liability. Veracode explores the consequences of rampant data-mining and the importance of finding the balance between function and privacy in this infographic published today.
House Hearing to Address Capital Market Threats
The House Committee on Financial Services is hosting a hearing tomorrow in which they will explore the various cyber threats targeting capital markets and government sponsored enterprises.
The White House revealed today a set of initiatives it plans to use as part of its public-private partnership to combat increasingly disruptive networks of infected computers known as botnets.
A PayPal researcher argues in a new paper that a combination of randomized user interfaces and back end screenshot comparison tools could effectively put an end to clickjacking attacks, one of the most prevalent online scams.
The US State Department has launched a digital campaign against Al Qaida in which they are replacing the terror organization’s anti-American propaganda ads on Yemeni tribal sites with anti-terror propaganda of their own, according to an Associated Press report.
Hacktivists, malware, scams, data theft and DDoS attacks are among the Department of Homeland Security’s concerns regarding this summer’s Olympic Games set to take place in London, according to the DHS Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center’s Strategic Outlook.
On the list of things made obsolete by the Internet, signatures are right up there with paperback books and the postal service, but the Microsoft Malware Protection Center decided to dig deeper into the signature of Carl A. (unreadable last name) anyway and see why it keeps turning up in malware samples.
Cybercriminals are using the Tatanga trojan to carry out a complicated man-in-the-browser (MitB) attack that enables the circumvention of SMS authentication for financial transactions, according to Trusteer’s Amit Klein.
A British man could spend as much as a year in prison after admittedly hacking into the private Facebook account of a pop star and actress, meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to record his Rutgers University roommate in an intimate moment, will spend just 30 days in jail.
