There is a newly identified ongoing attack campaign in which attackers are using compromised Apache HTTP binaries to redirect users to malicious sites serving various flavors of malware, including the Blackhole exploit kit. Rather than going the traditional route of simply injecting malicious code onto target Web sites, this attack crew is replacing the existing […]
Google, which gradually has been moving its users away from using passwords as their main form of authentication for Web services, has joined a young organization whose goal is to phase out passwords and replace them with various forms of strong authentication. The FIDO Alliance, formed last year, is working to make two-factor authentication the […]
Adobe has named Brad Arkin to the newly created position of CSO, a major expansion of responsibilities for Arkin, who has been leading the company’s product security and privacy initiatives. Adobe has been in the security spotlight for several years now, as attackers have focused their attention on the company’s portfolio of products that enjoy […]
A pair of popular WordPress plugins used to help sites cache content have fixed serious vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit simply by including special HTML code in a comment. Both WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache contained a vulnerability that allowed for PHP code injection through a simple attack vector, but both plugins have […]
As Twitter continues to secure its footing in the social network spectrum, it continues to be complemented by an ongoing deluge of spam and malware, intent on tapping into – and duping – the social network’s 200 million plus users.
BOSTON – Downstream is where you live today as a security person. If Gene Kim has his way, you’ll be inline soon enough.
Kim’s keynote today at Source Boston 2013 took listeners on a deep dive of the integration of development and IT operations and helped map out how organizations may be able to wedge security into the conversation and help security practitioners escape a system that pre-ordains failure—one they are for the most part powerless to avoid today.
Google has fixed a series of serious vulnerabilities in its Chrome OS, including three high-risk bugs that could be used for code execution on vulnerable machines. As part of its reward program, Google paid out more than $30,000 to a researcher who found three of the vulnerabilities.
In the lucrative world of online gambling, many poker rooms – especially those that rely on the user to download a client to play – are marred by insecurities.
A German security company spent 18 months analyzing malware among millions of Web sites ranked by the world’s most popular search engines and concluded Google was safer than Bing.
A form of spyware first seen in 2008 and known for siphoning away users’ bank account credentials, emails, screenshots and various other bits of information has surfaced again – this time targeting computer users in India.
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