‘Why is security so hard?’ That’s the question that a new conference focused on “useable security” will attempt to answer by bringing together experts on security, software development and human-computer interaction.
UPDATED: The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Wednesday announced the break-up of an identity theft and fencing ring responsible for around $1 million in fraudulent purchases from Apple stores around the country.
We’ve noted for a while that the
practices of rogue antivirus software have started to mimic those of
legitimate antivirus software vendors. But a new version of FakeXPA scareware take things a bit further: posing as a legitimate commercial AV package, AVG Antivirus 2011.
How important a role did Facebook play in the popular revolution that swept Egypt last week? According to data from security firm zScaler: it was very important. Fully 42% of the country’s Web surfing on January 27, the day before Egypt’s main ISPs abruptly severed ties to the Internet.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a call for proposals this week in a $40m program to encourage research and development in a wide range of topics related to cyber security: from designing more resilient software, to alternatives to passwords and CAPTCHA technology to prevent automated attacks.
Amidst growing popular protests, Egypt has been severed from the Internet, according to reports from Intenet monitors and reporters within the country.
Spammers aren’t the only ones who have figured out that social networks like Twitter and Facebook are good for business. Sophisticated hackers conducting targeted attacks are also using the networks as a tool to manage malware installations on victims’ networks, according to a new report from Mandiant.
BitTorrent, the peer to peer file sharing network, has gained a reputation for enabling the masses to share and distribute files. But when it comes to sharing copyrighted content, just 100 users are responsible for most of the content.
The Web site of The Mail & Guardian, a leading news outlet in South Africa, was off line on Wednesday after what the paper claims were “sustained attacks” by hackers, reportedly based in Russia.
A new report from the Conficker Working Group concludes that coordinated efforts to stomp out the botnet were a mixed bag: helping to thwart the worm’s efforts to register Web domains that it used to spread, but failing to remove the worm from infected Windows computers.
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