On average, there were almost five fraudulent phone calls every minute earlier this year according to a report released today from security firm Pindrop Security. The Atlanta-based company found phone fraud was up 29 percent January to June this year from the last half of 2011 after it analyzed 1.3 million different instances as part of its 2012 State of Phone Fraud Report.
There are new versions of the Opera browser available, a small update to version 12.01, but they include a number of important security fixes, notably a patch for a vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution.
Officials at Huawei Technologies say that they’re looking into claims by security researchers made at DEF CON last week that there are a handful of serious security vulnerabilities in some of the company’s routers. Saying it employs “rigorous security strategies and policies” Huawei is trying to verify the flaws discovered by researchers Felix “FX” Lindner and Gregor Kopf.
Google has released Chrome 21, the most recent stable version of its flagship browser. The new release includes more than two dozen security fixes, among them patches for six high-priority flaws.
Attackers are now using DDoS services that offer attacks on telecommunication systems as part of larger attack schemes. These attacks, known as TDoS attacks, can be a relatively cheap option for cybercriminals looking into diversifying their attack vectors.
The number of SQL attacks jumped by nearly two thirds earlier this year according to cloud hosting firm FireHost who recorded over 450,000 blocked SQL injection attacks between the first and second quarter this year.
Microsoft gave its users steps earlier this week to sidestep a vulnerability in one of Oracle’s Outside In libraries. The company published some mitigations for the bug, but said it isn’t aware of any active attacks against it yet.
In concert with the release of their highly anticipated Mountain Lion OS X, Apple also updated their Web browser, Safari, including a number of security fixes.
Nearly one-third of all recalled medical devices contain computers, and half of those are recalled because of computer-related problems, according to a recent study.
Black Hat is upon us and, with it, a lot of chatter about the dangers posed by so-called “APT,” or advanced persistent threats. Rather than get trapped in the hype bubble, Threatpost editor Paul Roberts took the opportunity to check back in with a recognized expert on detecting and combating APT-style attacks: Amit Yoran, the former CEO of NetWitness Corp. and now a Senior Vice President at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. Yoran says that the darkest days may yet be ahead in the fight against APT style attacks, with mounting attacks and a critical shortage of security talent. To cope, both private sector firms and the government need to stop fighting the last war and pivot to the kinds of practices and monitoring that can spot sophisticated attackers.
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