Blue Coat’s Senior malware researcher Chris Larsen has pulled data from the company’s Mid-Year Security Report for an infographic on malware networks. Read on to get an idea of some of the larger networks, their points of entry and a list of prevention techniques.
A major provider of Internet services and mobile access in South Korea has been hit by one of the larger data breaches in recent history, resulting in the compromise of personal information belonging to as many as 35 million users. The attack on SK Telecom’s Cyworld site reportedly came from an IP address in China and resulted in the loss of users’ names, email addresses and other data.
What country serves up the biggest share of online attacks? The U.S., you say? It’s the world’s largest and most advanced economy. China maybe? Its growing fast, with billions of citizens and hundreds of millions of Internet users. How about Russia?
Computer viruses have been a problem for 25 years now, and in honor of that dubious milestone, Mikko Hyponnen of F-Secure spoke at the TED Global conference in Scotland recently about the evolution of malware and how it’s turned into a tool for cybercrime.
What happens when 20-something Beltway wonks put down their Blackberries and start getting real about hacking? Chris Wysopal can tell you. The security expert and former L0pht member is just back from D.C., where he took on the job of teaching Senate staffers on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about SQL injection, spear phishing and more.
Researchers have discovered a massive iframe injection campaign that has infected more than 90,000 Web pages.
Security researchers have discovered a new piece of malware that targets Mac OS X users and installs a remote-control backdoor on compromised machines. The malware, called Olyx, was discovered in a package that also contained some Windows malware and researchers say that the Mac backdoor is remarkably similar to the Gh0st RAT that was used in the infamous Ghostnet attacks in 2009.
A new report out from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that the U.S. Department of Defense’s efforts to unify its cyber security operations has serious gaps and that the Department is “unprepared to meet the current threat” of cyber attack.
Randy Vickers, the director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US Cert) abruptly abandoned his post on Friday when he tendered his resignation immediately.The resignation came via an email penned by acting assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications, Bobbie Stempfley, and obtained by InformationWeek. The authenticity of that email has since been confirmed by a US CERT spokesperson, speaking on conditions of anonymity, according to Information Week.
Web applications are attacked every two minutes and at some times can experience upwards to 25,000 attacks an hour according to a report published by security firm Imperva today.As part of its continuing Hacker Intelligence initiative, Imperva’s Application Defense Center (ADC) released their Web Application Attack Report after analyzing six months of web traffic and more than 10 million attacks from December 2010 to May 2011. The study also followed onion router (TOR) traffic.
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