Attackers have spent the last few years learning the ins and outs of Adobe Flash, looking for all of its weak spots, unintended behaviors and any other oddities that will enable them to exploit it. That’s been a profitable investment for them, but browser manufacturers and Adobe have been taking steps to change that, with the latest one being Google’s decision to place Flash in a full sandbox inside of Chrome.
The security firm Trusteer reports that new Web-based attacks are targeting Android smartphone users in a campaign to circumvent two-factor sign-on features used by many banks to protect account holders.
Network security firm Cyberoam issued an over the air update for all of its Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices today after a decrypted version of the company’s universal private key was leaked online over the weekend.
If you’ve been scanning the headlines or watching the evening news, you may have heard that tens of thousands of Internet users in the U.S. – hundreds of thousands around the world – will be cut off from the Internet on Monday, July 9, after servers set up at the bequest of the U.S. government go dark. That’s bad, right? Well, maybe not.
A new version of the Sykipot Trojan is being pushed to unsuspecting users in a wave of online attacks, including targeted attacks on attendees of an international aerospace conference, according to researchers at the security firm AlienVault.
TeamP0ison hacker and newly minted 18 year-old Junaid Hussain of Birmingham, England – a.k.a “TriCk” pleaded guilty last week to hacking charges for a string of attacks on some of the U.K.’s leading political figures, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to a published report in The Sun.
Nothing is more frustrating than spending days or weeks compromising dozens of Web sites and setting up your network of malicious redirects and then finding out that someone has screwed it all up by taking down one of your infected sites. Luckily, the crew behind the BlackHole exploit kit has solved that problem for its customers by including a new domain-generation algorithm that will help create new malicious sites as quickly as possible.
A new Mac OS X backdoor variant has begun making the rounds online, targeting a Turkic ethnic group in central Asia, according to a post on Securelist’s blog earlier today.
Adobe said on Thursday that it will stop supporting Flash Player for Google’s Android mobile operating system, starting with version 4.1 of Android.
The number of vulnerabilities in the average Web site is actually decreasing, one of the more surprising findings in an annual study done by WhiteHat Security.
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