The underground malware economy has expanded and diversified in recent years and the latest frontier is the mobile platform. In this video, Kaspersky Lab’s Denis Maslennikov talks about the ways that attackers use premium-rate SMS messages and banking fraud to bilk users.
Current versions of the SpyEye Trojan now include functionality designed to steal sensitive data from individuals surfing the Web with Chrome and Opera browsers according to a Brian Krebs report.
Sony’s online gaming platform, The PlayStation Network (PSN), continued a five day outage on Monday after what the company described as an “attack” on its network knocked PSN offline on April 20. And hope is fading for a fast resolution, with Sony saying it is revamping the network to make it more secure.
A U.S. security expert has uncovered data on more than 10,000 job applicants for positions with China’s State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, including user names and passwords that could be used to gain access to other sensitive government systems.
Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), based in Northern Virginia, went offline early this morning, taking with it a number of popular sites including, news aggregator Reddit and question and answer site (and TechCrunch darling), Quora.The Web hosting firm’s Relational Database Service
Microsoft on Tuesday provided key details of a “Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure”
(CVD) program it announced in July and that’s aimed at bolstering
collaboration between Microsoft, its customers and the security
community.
If there’s one thing that scientists and statisticians both hate, its weird data. And that’s what the folks at Verizon were dealing with when they tallied the results of their 2011 Data Breach Report which found a stunning 97% drop in the number of lost records, even as the number of reported breaches rose precipitously.
After months of almost total silence, security firm HBGary issued a statement to counter what it claims were inaccurate media reports about a February security breach that spilled thousands of e-mail messages onto the Internet.
The third State of Software Security (SOSS) report finds that software developers are still doing a poor job of making applications secure.
Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser that includes not only an updated version of Adobe Flash that fixes a critical bug, but also patches for three critical vulnerabilities in the browser’s GPU process.
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