The United States intelligence community and its counterparts in law enforcement are quite secretive about their surveillance methods and the targets of those operations. Few people are privy to information about ongoing surveillance, but now it turns out that the Chinese government may have a better handle on who some of those targets are than the average U.S. citizen or politician does.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in both File Lite and File Pro, two file management applications created by Perception Systems for iOS, currently available on Apple’s App Store.
The Safe cyberespionage campaign includes elements of malware and coding from a professional cybercrime software development team.
REDMOND, Wash.–If one were to draw up a list of the most challenging jobs in the technology industry, chief privacy officer at Microsoft likely would be pretty near the top of it. For a company with the size and scope of Microsoft, the volume of potential privacy issues is nearly endless, and if someone is calling you for help, something has probably gone wrong.
The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has been spearheading botnet takedowns and other anti-cybercrime operations for many years, and it has had remarkable success. But the cybercrime problem isn’t going away anytime soon, so the DCU is in the process of building a new cybercrime center here, and soon will roll out a new threat intelligence service to help ISPs and CERT teams get better data about ongoing attacks.
Researchers at Seculert discover that the PushDo malware gang has counter-punched a research report by Dell SecureWorks and Damballa outing its use of a domain generation algorithm and has adjusted the DGA to generate just .KZ domains.
Mac spyware was discovered on the computer of an activist attended a free speech workshop in Oslo.
Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich said the organization has not pushed a patch that blocks third-party cookies by default to the Beta version of Firefox 22. Further testing, he said, is needed to address false positives and negatives.
REDMOND, Wash.–Cybercrime has developed in the last few years into a major concern, not just for the consumers and businesses that are victims, but also for governments around the world. Obama administration officials have called it one of the larger threats to the United States economy. While law enforcement agencies handle the investigative and prosecutorial […]
A new malware campaign has been hitting Pakistan hard over the last few months and after a little e-sleuthing, it appears the not-so-stealthy attacks have been originating from nearby India and exploiting a certificate to run its binaries.
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