Moving to Tor a Bad Move for Massive Botnet
The massive MEvade botnet, currently using Tor as a communications protocol, ultimately made a bad move shifting to the anonymity network.
New Monitoring, Security Features for Java 7
Java 7U40 is available and includes new local security policy that gives admins the ability to choose which apps can access a particular version of Java.
Email Spam Campaign Spreading Android Malware
A new email spam campaign is dropping Android malware, in this case FakeDefender, on phones.
The latest iteration of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, which has run at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver for several years, will take place at the Japanese version of the conference in November, and the targets will be the most popular mobile platforms.
WordPress has fixed a number of security vulnerabilities, including one that could lead to remote code execution on vulnerable installations. WordPress 3.6.1 is the new, updated release that contains the fixes and also includes some non-security bug fixes and stability changes.
Dennis Fisher talks with Marc Maiffret about his teenage years as a phone phreaker and BBS denizen, the early years of the vulnerability research scene, the Code Red worm and its aftermath and how the security scene has changed in the past 15 years.
Kaspersky Lab has discovered an espionage campaign called Kimsuky originating in North Korea targeting government think tanks in South Korea.
If you haven’t heard, Apple unveiled two new iterations of the iPhone at one of the Cupertino company’s typically grandiose product events yesterday. As usual, there was plenty of hype to go around, but the biggest change as far as security is concerned is the addition of a fingerprint scanner on the high-end new iPhone 5S.
The federal government has released hundreds of pages of documents, including orders and opinions from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, related to the NSA’s surveillance programs, but legislators who have been involved in the process say that there still are significant details of the agency’s email and phone collection activities that remain secret. Senators […]
An analysis of data collected during the Internet Census 2012, or Carna botnet, reveals that millions of embedded devices are vulnerable by default from the manufacturer.
