Russian ransomware takes advantage of Windows PowerShell
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 customers, which immediately piqued our interest as it used Windows PowerShell program to perform file encryption.
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Don’t Be Dumb About Smartphone Privacy
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 exactly why privacy experts and government officials are increasingly concerned about the safety and confidentiality of the information that gets stored on cell phones.
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CloudFlare security service goes down after router failure
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. CloudFlare said the outage occurred while it was trying to defend one of its customers from a distributed denial-of-service attack.
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Google patches bug that allows attackers to slip past two-factor authentication
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.
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General Dynamics aims to offer government-level security on smartphones
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 a supplier of one such clunky terminal, the the Sectera Edge. But the acquisition in September last year of Open Kernel Labs, a virtualization software provider, is propelling this new push to extend that security to consumer devices.
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“We are working on a cyber security policy. We need more work to curb cyber crimes,” SiliconIndia News quoted Minister for Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal as saying. –
