Companies Buying More Insurance Against Cyberattacks
An posting from Tech news daily Companies are getting smarter about protecting themselves from cyberattacks. New research has found that the number of companies purchasing cyberinsurance increased 33 percentage points over the past year. Several industries are driving that growth. Professional, business, legal, accounting and personal services firms grew by 76 percentage points across 2012. […]
NSA Director: Information-Sharing Critical To U.S. Cybersecurity
An posting from Dark Reading about cyber security: Information-sharing and visibility into the threat landscape are vital for the public and private sectors to defend cyberspace, National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander told an audience at The Georgia Tech Cyber Security Symposium yesterday. The key to this is crafting legislation that protects privacy […]
Too Scared To Scan
An article from Dark Reading in there Security section: When it comes to detecting vulnerabilities in mission-critical applications, security professionals often find themselves in a bind. These are usually the applications that the enterprise can least afford to suffer a hack. But at the same time, they are also the applications whose owners are most […]
Spicing up phishing attacks
An posting form Nakcd Secutiy on phishing Attacks: Phishing is often regarded as old hat. From a technical perspective, it's a case of 'been there, done that'. Sometimes however, we come across attacks that are just a little bit more interesting (or at least different) from the norm. In this post I am going to […]
Critical Flaw Threatens Millions of BIND Servers
An posting in Threat post on a flaws that my blind severs: There is a critical vulnerability in several current versions of the BIND nameserver software that could allow an attacker to knock vulnerable DNS servers offline or compromise other applications running on those machines. The bug is present in several versions of the ubiquitous […]
DDOS attack brings the Internet to its knees
An article from Ehacking about DDOS: The reason behind the attack is that Spamhaus added the IP addresses of cyberbunker to its "spam" list due to Cyberbunker allowing almost any sort of content to be hosted hence also maybe the source for spam. So Cyberbunker attacked back and this attack also affected normal internet users. The attack was possible […]
VSkimmer trojan steals card data on point-of-sale systems
An posting from SC Magazine on VSkimmer Trojan: Researchers have discovered a new trojan capable of stealing credit card data from point-of-sale (POS) systems, and it appears to be an updated version of Dexter, similar malware targeting card-swiping devices. On Thursday, Chintan Shah, a security researcher for McAfee Labs, blogged about VSkimmer, which is capable […]
Spear Phishing Cause of South Korean Cyber Attack
An article from Threat Post on Spear Phishing: It appears that a spear phishing campaign was the genesis for the wiper malware infections that ultimately knocked several prominent South Korean banks and broadcasters offline last week, according to a malware analysis performed by researchers from the Finnish cybersecurity firm F-Secure. The South Korean NSHC Red […]
Korean Mystery Malware Wiped Unix, Windows Machines
An article from Tech New Daily about a malwere wiped unix windows machines: The malware that hit South Korean banks and broadcasters yesterday (March 20) was a wrecking machine, deleting core files on both Windows and Unix-based machines and rendering them inoperable, researchers have found. Analysis by security firms AlienVault, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec and Trend […]
New adware Trojan circulating that targets Mac OS X systems
An article from Cnet about New adware Trojan circulating that targets Mac OS X systems: A new Mac OS X Trojan is making the rounds, installing an adware plug-in that renders ads on Web pages to generate revenue for its author. Dubbed Trojan.Yontoo.1, it is the most prominent of an increasing number of adware Trojans […]