Arabic Text String Taking Down Apps, Clients, Browsers on iOS, Mac OS X
A bug in Apple’s Core Text technology is at the core of denial of service conditions on iOS and Mac OS X caused by a string of Arabic text making the rounds online.
Michael Mimoso
Kelihos Relying on CBL Blacklists to Evaluate New Bots
The Kelihos botnet is leveraging legitimate security services such as composite blocking lists (CBLs) to test the reliability of victim IP addresses before using them to push spam and malware.
Facebook Produces First Report on Government Requests for Data
Facebook complied with 79 percent of the government requests for user data it received, according to its first transparency report.
Drive, a variant of the DirtJumper DDoS toolkit, has been updated with mitigation bypass capabilities.
A new Trojan has been discovered that goes to great lengths to bypass Craigslist’s controls in order to post spam messages on the site.
Parts of China’s .cn domain are available again after a large DDoS attack made close to a third of the sites registered under that domain unavailable on Sunday.
Researchers have spotted the Poison Ivy RAT being used in three new attacks with ties to China.
Researchers have spotted a new version of the Jigsaw pen-testing tool which builds email lists used in spam and phishing campaigns from the Jigsaw business directory.
Researchers from MIT and the Northern University of Ireland stand by their theory that information theory is the wrong foundation for cryptography and security.
A USENIX paper presented yesterday explains how a team of researchers was able to disrupt a small portion of the underground merchants selling fraudulent Twitter accounts.
