Blackhole Exploit Kit’s Dominance On Infected Hosts Could Push Rivals To the Cloud
The Blackhole exploit kit has a near monopoly on infected Web pages, according to Web security firm M86’s latest Security Labs Report, issued today. (PDF)
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security" - Benjamin Franklin
Infographic: How To Spot A Fake Facebook Friend Profile
A whopping 97 percent of fake Facebook profiles purport to be female, according to this infographic based on a new study, announced today, from security firm Barracuda Networks. In order to expand their networks and entice would-be victims, 58 percent of the phony profiles also claim to be bisexual and on average, have 726 friends while 68 percent claim to have attended college.
Game On: Gamma Ray Scanners To Guard ‘Most Technologically Secure’ Super Bowl Ever
Gamma ray scanners? Night vision cameras? bomb-proof manhole covers? G-Men? It must be Super Bowl time again, and Marion County, Indiana says that they’ve gone where no other municipality has gone before: a permanent, $18 million regional operation center (yes – ROC) that will manage security at the Big Game.
Join Paul Roberts, Threatpost editor, and his guests, Michael Guigli, CEO of CloudConnect and Tim Armstrong, Malware Researcher at Kaspersky Lab as they discuss Virtualization and the security challenges faced by small businesses.
A new banking Trojan variant can bypass CAPTCHA, as demonstrated by a video posted today by security firm Websense on their Security Labs blog.
Google announced Tuesday that it will revamp its privacy policy and terms of service, boiling more than 60 privacy policies down to one comprehensive document that will extend across most of their products.
The New York State Public Service Commission announced yesterday they’ll be looking into a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of almost two million customers to unknown attackers.
A fake version of the popular Camera+ iPhone application was offered on Apple’s App Store over the weekend, according to a post by Glyn Evans on the iPhoneography blog on Saturday, just the latest example of suspicious and malicious applications to slip through Apple’s shadowy application vetting project.
In his presentation at S4, doctoral student Eireann Leverett presented his research showing how more than 10,000 Internet acccessible industrial control systems can be found online, including HVAC systems, building management systems, PLCs and other industrial systems. Here, Leverett shows a Google Map displaying the location of vulnerable ICS devices in North America.
The Project Basecamp presentation received a rousing response from the audience, many of whom are industrial control security experts who have long warned, quietly, about the woeful state of software security in the industry. But not everyone was enthused. Kevin Hemsley of ICS-CERT questioned Peterson about the decision to go public with the Project’s findings before notifying vendors. Here, Wightman presents his findings at S4.
