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Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
Banking Trojans have become a major security problem in many regions, particularly South America and Europe. In this video, Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Vicente Diaz discusses the epidemic and what can be done to mitigate it.
Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Hutton of Verizon about the 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report, the massive decrease in the number of records breached, the increase in the number of incidents and the clues to the cover challenge that may or may not be embedded in the report.
The continuing shift to mobile computing and the proliferation of smartphones has raised a slew of privacy and security concerns around the way that mobile devices and applications handle users’ data and personal information. A group of researchers from North Carolina State University has developed a method for addressing the problem on Android devices by giving users granular control of how apps can behave on their devices.
Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser that includes not only an updated version of Adobe Flash that fixes a critical bug, but also patches for three critical vulnerabilities in the browser’s GPU process.
Adobe is planning to patch the recently disclosed Flash Player vulnerability on Friday for users on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The vulnerability is being used in targeted attacks right now that use malicious Word documents.
When Adobe warned customers earlier this week about a newly discovered vulnerability in the Flash Player software, company officials said that there were already attacks underway against the bug. Those attacks are using malicious Flash files buried in Word documents and Microsoft’s security engineers have analyzed the exploits and found some interesting details.
In parallel with its release of 17 bulletins on Patch Tuesday this month, Microsoft also unveiled two new tools that are meant to help make a couple of common exploitation scenarios more difficult for attackers.
Microsoft has released its April Patch Tuesday fixes, a large group of patches that includes updates for several critical holes in Internet Explorer as well as a patch that finally fixes the SMB client bug that disclosed publicly in February.
Adobe on Monday warned its customers about a new unpatched vulnerability in its Flash Player application. Officials say that the bug is being used in targeted attacks involving a malicious Flash file embedded in a Microsoft Word document.
As the first phishing attacks begin to emerge targeting the millions of customers affected by the email data breach at Epsilon, there are indications that more than just email addresses and names may have been taken during the attack.
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