Oxford University blocks Google Docs because of phishing attacks.. for 2.5 hours
An article on phishing in google doc’s from Naked security: Earlier this week it was being widely reported that Oxford University had taken the drastic step of completely blocking Google Docs, after it had seen a dramatic increase in the number of phishing attacks exploiting the service, targeting staff and students.
What wasn’t so widely reported was that the University’s block was short-lived. As Robin Stevens of Oxford University Computing Services explained in a blog post – docs.google.com was only blocked for 2.5 hours:
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Botnet master abuses Facebook for pocket money, researchers reveal
An interesting story from Naked Security on botnets: A Chinese hacker’s main job may well be running a botnet of malware-clotted zombie PCs, but there’s always time left in the day for selling fake Likes, apparently.
It is not every day that remorseful confessions over lapsed adherence to the Five Precepts of Buddhism help researchers identify a hacker.
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Cloud Security Measures Too Opaque For Customers
An new article on cloud security from Dark Reading: The apparent cost benefits and flexibility of cloud services may have convinced companies’ front offices to dive into the cloud, but convincing corporate security teams is another matter.
Nearly seven out of eight information-technology professionals do not trust cloud providers to protect their companies’ most sensitive data, according to a recent survey conducted by Lieberman Software, a provider of privileged access management products. The majority would not trust cloud providers with their own personal data, either.
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Jeep joins Burger King in Twitter hack club
A new article from NBC News technology section on twitter accounts being hack: Just a day after Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked and renamed McDonalds, Jeep is suffering the same fate — but the takeover hoax isn’t credited to the fast food empire this time. Jeep’s hacked account says it’s been bought by Cadillac, of all things.
The account was briefly rebadged, so to speak, to feature a brand new Cadillac ATS, and tweets are pouring out praising Cadillac in the same coarse and thuggish vernacular seen on Burger King’s account. The Jeep account also called out several users of Twitter as “da bad guys,” one of which tweeted that it was the user @GUHTI_, or ITHUG, who had actually perpetrated the hack.
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Apple’s own Macs bitten by Java-based malware attack
An article form naked Securty about malware on Mac: If you still think malware on a Mac is more myth than reality you may want to talk to the security engineers over in Cupertino at a rather prestigious fruit company.
According to Reuters, “Apple Inc. was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees”.
More specifically Apple engineers had their Mac OS X laptops infected by the same zero-day Java vulnerability that infected Facebook last month.
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Spearphishing: The dirty email trick favored by the nastiest hackers
Interesting article in NBC NEWS technology section: A new report says that the Chinese military is secretly obtaining sensitive data from U.S. companies. A key technique is “spearphishing,” an approach that tricks a targeted individual to reveal information that can be used to infiltrate the company or government agency that person works for.
Security companies have been warning about spearfishing for the last two to three years, and its use is increasing. But now that it has become top news, thanks to a report from U.S. computer-security firm Mandiant Corp. explaining how Chinese operatives tricked workers at Coca-Cola and other major American firms, what is at the top of many people’s minds is this: How do you know if you’re being spearphished?
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