Marvin Walter Wimberly, Jr., a sixty one year-old programmer and game board designer has been charged by authorities in Florida with committing computer crimes with the intent to defraud after his employer, game maker Bob’s Space Racers (BSR) uncovered an elaborate scheme in which popular arcade games were programmed to self destruct.
Microsoft has issued an update to its core malware protection engine that fixes a bug that could allow an attacker to gain LocalSystem privileges on a vulnerable machine if a specific set of odd conditions exist.
A new Trojan leads online banking customer into thinking they have logged out of their sessions when in fact they remain logged in. Discovered by Trusteer researchers, this completely new piece of malware represents the evolution of online attacks in the ways in which it integrates new and old hacking methodologies to subvert the should-be stalwart commercial security applications employed by financial institutions.
There was lots of noise and distraction on the crowded Expo floor of the RSA Security Conference this year. After a grueling couple of years, vendors were back in force with big booths, big news and plenty of entertainment designed to attract visitor traffic. Wandering the floor, I saw – variously – magic tricks, a man walking on stilts, a whack-a-mole game, a man dressed in a full suit of armor and a 15 foot long racetrack that I would have killed for when I was 10.
There are two new versions of the Zeus malware making the rounds right now, both of which target popular mobile phone platforms. One of the variants targets Windows Mobile devices, while the other is going after the Symbian platform, and both are intent on silently stealing data from infected devices.
One of the big impediments to prosecuting computer crimes is getting law enforcement to pursue computer crimes with the same intensity that they do traditional property and violent crimes. But that’s easier said than done. At the recent B-Sides San Francisco Conference, Threatpost.com sat down with Nick Selby, a Managing Director at IT security consulting firm Trident Risk Management to talk about the gulf that separates the “guns and badges” folks from the world of IT security.
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Military’s top officer in charge of cyber security said that the country must invest more in so-called “STEM” programs – science, technology, engineering and math – to avoid being outflanked in a world where cyber offensive- and defensive operations are the keys to military victory.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is reporting that key government agencies in Canada were the targets of a sophisticated cyber attack aimed at stealing sensitive government information.
The size and volume of spam botnets are down over the last
year, and much of this can be attributed to the effectiveness of IP-based blacklists. However,
this defense method is no panacea as scammers have found new methods like reputation
hijacking to circumvent these roadblocks, and bots continue to extend their
reach by piggybacking on existing worms and viruses.
Lookout Mobile Security discovered a new Android based Trojan called HongTouTou (aka ADRD Trojan) that is packaging itself in popular Android apps and delivering itself through app markets and Chinese forums.
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