SAN FRANCISCO - Cybercriminals are cranking out fake Web sites branded as eBay, banks, and other financial companies to the tune of tens of thousands every week, according to new research. During a three-month study of its global malware database, Panda Security found on average 57,000 new Web sites created each week with the aim
REDMOND, Wa. - Microsoft and Adobe Systems have announced that a recently released Microsoft toolkit can be used to block zero-day attacks targeting a security flaw in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader programs. In an advisory published Friday, Microsoft detailed how its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0 could be used to short-circuit the threat. Adobe, which
SAN FRANCSICO - A new clickjacking scam was spreading on Facebook luring victims with a purported video of "cheerleaders gone wild," a security expert warned on Thursday before Facebook shut the attack down. Victims' accounts were posting messages that said "cheerleaders gone wild - have to see this" with a photo of, you guessed it,
REDMOND, Wa. - With court backing and a novel use of a civil procedure, Microsoft appears to be close to obliterating the Waledac spam botnet, changing the way online criminal operations are defeated. A magistrate judge in federal court in Virginia is expected to recommend within days that the judge hearing Microsoft's case grant a
SAN FRANCSICO - Mozilla released two new versions of its browser on Tuesday, Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12, to close 10 critical security vulnerabilities in each and to help Web site operators block a risk called clickjacking. Critical vulnerabilities can let a remote attacker run arbitrary code on a computer, CNET News.Com. With Web browsers
SAN FRANCISCO - With 2010 in its' last third, PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, has released a ranking of the most widespread scams on the Web from the past 10 years. These include the infamous Nigerian scam, ploys involving beautiful foreign women and money mule schemes based on too-good-to-be-true job offers. "As with all the
SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers at Norwegian and German institutes claim to have successfully cracked the quantum cryptography equipment used to cloak highly sensitive communications by banks and defense agencies. The researchers said they had remotely controlled the photon detectors used in commercially available photodiode quantum cryptography systems. This allowed them to eavesdrop on communications, the
DETROIT - That nice, new computerized car you just bought could be hackable. Of course, your car is probably not a high-priority target for most malicious hackers. But security experts tell CNET that car hacking is starting to move from the realm of the theoretical to reality, thanks to new wireless technologies and evermore dependence
LANSING - Michigan government has been certified for the third straight year that it is compliant with the Payment Card Industry's strict standards for ensuring that cardholder information is protected and secure. The PCI Data Security Standards apply to financial institutions, Internet vendors and retail merchants and detail the security measures and auditing procedures required
BIRMINGHAM ? Cyber Defense Weekly, published by Richard Stiennon's IT-Harvest group, has partnered with Infosec Island, a member-driven community of information security professionals, to create a strategic partnership that will bring readers the latest in information security news and best practices. Stiennon is a content partner with MITechNews.Com, which will also expand its Cyber Security