BBC Sites Serving Malware
The websites of the BBC’s 6 music and 1Xtra radio stations
have been injected with a malicious iframe and are redirecting users to a site
serving up malware according to a Websense report Tuesday.
Malware
New Generation of Exploit Kits On The Rise
“The marketplace for hacker exploit kits is getting more crowded according to research by Kaspersky Labs, which found that new tools with names like SEOsploit and Crimepack are challenging the dominance of legacy tools like the Phoenix, Eleonore, Neosploit, YESExploit, and Liberty kits.
Experts Agree: No Easy Fix For Mobile Security
SAN FRANCISCO — Mobile phones, tablet PCs and other new technologies are poised to take over the workplace, but organizations that hope to secure them before they do so face an uphill battle, according to a symposium on mobile security.
SAN FRANCISCO–If you are in business long enough, you’re going to get hacked and you’re going to have to call the cops. Maybe you’ll need their help finding the perpetrators of a crime in which your business was victimized. Maybe employees will have conducted a crime involving IT, or maybe you’ll simply be asked to help investigate a crime conducted against someone else. The fact is: your business will engage with law enforcement at some point, and you better be prepared. Sadly, few businesses today are.
The Stuxnet Worm attempted to infiltrate five industrial
complexes in Iran over a span of ten months according to a report in the New York Times
based on a Stuxnet
Dossier published by Symantec.
Email users may have experienced a serious decline in spam
over the past couple months, however, a Web security trends report by M86 Security released today at RSA in San Francisco says cybercriminals are coming
up with new and innovative methods of phishing as well as producing increasingly
robust and complicated exploit kits.
By Marc MaiffretReading the headlines today one could not help but notice the latest
installment of “scary Chinese hacker press” making the headlines. And
who can blame the news media for latching on to this story as it has all
the right ingredients: foreign governments targeting U.S. interests,
catchy nicknames like Night Dragon, connections to a previous scary
threat “Operation Aurora” and a timely announcement leading up to one of
the security industry’s biggest conferences in San Francisco next week,
RSA. Wait, what?
The US government is progressing at a snail’s pace in
securing critical American infrastructure according to a Center for Strategic
and International Studies (CSIS) commission
on cybersecurity examining the first two years of the 44th presidency.
As malware authors and attackers have continued to employ the Windows AutoRun functionality to help spread their malicious creations–culminating famously in the Stuxnet worm–Microsoft has been making gradual changes to help prevent these attacks. This week the company took the major step of putting an optional fix into Windows Update that will disable Autorun.
New cheap toolkits give amateur
developers the ability to create their own viral Facebook applications, something that’s become a favorite activity of attackers in recent months.
