Among the many different trojans that spread on Facebook, something popped up recently that caught our particular attention. The threat, detected...
What we're lacking here is a clear differentiation between types of "hacktivist" or, indeed, "activist": much of the commentary that's around at...
Forensic software developer PassWare announced a new version of its eponymous software forensics kit on Tuesday. Already several news sources are writing...
Well, really there are far more, but the latest study from Imperva of 10 million attacks against 30 large organizations from January...
The most common malware technique for avoiding detection is to create loads of “fresh” variants. Actually, the component that changes so frequently...
Or so the latest report from DEBKAfile states, claiming the Stuxnet worm broke numerous Iranian centrifuges by forcing them to overspeed, causing...
With the proliferation of the data we hold on our mobile devices, it’s no wonder Neil Daswani, CTO of Dasient, says around...
...one Yasuhiro Kawaguchi was arrested yesterday on suspicion of "saving a virus on his computer," though the story suggests distribution of malware...
2 days ago, the FBI announced a series of raids resulting in arrests of alleged members of the hacking group ‘Anonymous’. Hoping...
In their presentation “Cybercrime in Russia: Trends and issues” at CARO2011 -- one of the best presentations of the workshop, in my...
Sitting in an airport you rarely frequent, you grab your laptop and snap out a couple e-mails to send, and look, there’s...
The mobile devices of late have more compute power than the full desktop PC of yesteryear, and they fit it your pocket,...
With Facebook's launch of video chat powered by Skype underway and enabling a new level of communication on its platform, we take...
Google, in an effort to get more squarely into the center of the social networking scene, is implementing a system where private...
It's something of a truism, that 'old viruses never die', and that certainly seems to be the case for some of the...
On Wednesday we heard additional documents had been leaked from the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS). “Will this ever end?” has...
Facebook recently launched a facial recognition feature that allows you and others to “tag” photos with your name. As has been the...
In a ComputerWorld article Gregg Kaiser cites a Microsoft engineer as saying that the trojan that Microsoft calls “Popureb” digs so deeply...
"Infrastructure Attacks: The Next Generation?" now includes the speaker notes, which hopefully makes it more interesting and useful.
The Obama administration seems intent on pushing for stiffer sentences for hackers caught endangering national security to 20 years prison time, doubling...