Home Depot Hacked!
Looks like The Home Depot needs to turn their own ‘Doing
Dials’ up a notch: the website of the home improvement retailer was compromised
by a piece of hidden code that redirected browsers to a site infected with malware.
Brian Donohue
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
2011’s First Patch Tuesday Fixes Three Windows Flaws
Microsoft released just two bulletins in this month’s
edition of patch Tuesday. Both bulletins cover vulnerabilities in Windows, and Microsoft is recommending that users install the critical fix for the two vulnerabilities covered in MS11-02 immediately.
China Sleeps On A Stuxnet-Like SCADA Bug
One of the most widely used SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) applications in China may be harboring a critical security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to exploit the bug
and execute arbitrary code.
Two international students from Vietnam are under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security on charges of identity theft and wire fraud.
Mobile devices are making us dumber – at least when it comes to security, according to research conducted by security firm Trusteer. Research published by the company found that smartphone and computer tablet users are three times more
susceptible to email phishing scams than traditional PC and laptop users.
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has urged users of its Office suite to apply a security update, MS10-087, released last November. The company says it has become aware of attacks exploiting the hole in Office applications that are circulating on the Internet.
GSM mobile phone networks are becoming the backbone of communications and commerce in the developed and developing worlds, but those networks may be easily susceptible to eavesdropping, according to a presentation at the annual Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Berlin.
A Kaspersky Lab research report for November 2010 showed
the amount of email based spam fell 0.06 percent to 76.8 percent from October.
The study also showed there was a .47 percent decrease in the prevalence of
phishing emails across all mail traffic and a .13 percent decrease in the frequency
of malicious files found in email.
In response to a 24 hour outage that occurred last week on
their internet voice and video chat platform, Skype’s Chief Information Officer has revealed that an error in some versions of the company’s software client is to blame.
The recent wave of online actions by supporters and opponents of information leaking site Wikileaks has focused attention on the phenomenon of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. But a study published by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society this week concludes that there is no clear and easy defensive solution for many of the sites being targeted by DDoS attacks.
