An interesting article from Ehacking news: The Dubai Police have arrested a cyber crime gang who were able to transfer more than 2 Million dollars(Dh7 million) from Dubai Exchange companies’ accounts. The police said that a gang of Asians and Africans work with hackers to hack into websites and systems of companies in Dubai to […]
An interesting article from Naked Security: For us in SophosLabs, ransomware is a common sight. We see many different versions every day. But as to be expected, the authors think up a new gimmick that makes us take notice. This is one of those cases. Recently we received a ransomware sample from one of our […]
An interesting article from forbes.com about smart-phone privacy: If you’ve got a smartphone, it’s probably become so indispensable that you’d be lost without it (often literally, thanks to its mapping and location apps). “It’s your whole life in a small device,” says Eduard Goodman, the Phoenix-based chief privacy officer for the blog Identity Theft 911. That’s […]
An interesting article from Cnet.com in there security & privacy section: Web security service CloudFlare was offline for about an hour this morning due to a systemwide failure of its edge routers. The outage, which began around 1:47 a.m. PT, removed the security layer for 785,000 Web sites, including 4chan and Wikileaks, according to TechCrunch. […]
An article on Naked Security about authentication: Google’s two-step verification, according to the company’s ad campaign, isn’t merely a bear guarding your home. It’s a snake pit behind the bear guarding your home. Unfortunately, it turns out, application-specific passwords allow attackers to bounce right past the bear and to hop over the vipers. To read […]
An interesting article from Computer world in there Security section: IDG News Service – General Dynamics is looking to bring U.S. government-level security to consumer smartphones, allowing organizations to benefit from the type of strong data protection only available on expensive and clunky mobile terminals. The company is already well versed in this area, as […]
An interesting article from Ehacking News: India will soon have National Cyber security Policy that will ensure appropriate measures to tackle cyber crime and cyber attacks, Indian Government officials said. “We are working on a cyber security policy. We need more work to curb cyber crimes,” SiliconIndia News quoted Minister for Communications and Information […]
An interesting article in Yahoo News tech section : PITTSBURGH (AP) — Spyware installed on computers leased from furniture renter Aaron’s Inc. secretly sent 185,000 emails containing sensitive information — including pictures of nude children and people having sex — back to the company’s corporate computers, according to court documents filed Wednesday in a class-action […]
an interesting article in Fobes about malwware: Have old school malware writers resurfaced? According to Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky they have, and they are behind the newest cyber attack against governments in Europe through a malware code the Russian internet security firm dubbed “MiniDuke.” In a statement on their Securelist website, Kaspersky said miniduke […]
An Interesting article from information week in there Security section: People with smartphones could be smarter in their security practices. One smartphone user in every four, according to security firm AVG Technologies, stores intimate photos on a smartphone or tablet, a practice that makes a lost or stolen device a potential privacy problem. AVG didn’t specifically […]
