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Microsoft, Symantec Join Forces to Take Down Bamital Click-Fraud Botnet
Business Partners Give Hackers Easy Access to Secure Firms
As frequently targeted, high-value companies continue fortifying their defenses, FireEye researchers claim that attackers are increasingly setting their sights on the affiliated but not-as-well-protected third-party organizations that do business with them.
Cyberwar Name Game a Dangerous Play
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The term “cyberwar” is the “zero day” of security jargon; it’s getting so that every bug is a zero day and every attack is hash-tagged cyberwar.
Federal Reserve Admits It was Briefly Hacked During Super Bowl
Two days after the group Anonymous boasted it had broken into a government Web site and had the data dump to prove it, the U.S. Federal Reserve admitted it was hacked.
"The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," a spokeswoman told Reuters Tuesday. "Exposure was fixed shortly after discovery and is no longer an issue. This incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve system."
Researchers Discovery Data-Stealing Malware That Likes to Nap
Researchers at FireEye's Malware Intelligence Lab say they've found malware that attempts to evade detection with extended sleep calls and uses "the fast flux technique" to hide the attacker's identity.
Phil Zimmermann on Mobile Encryption and Privacy
Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer and PGP inventor Phil Zimmermann about the specter of mobile eavesdropping, his new venture Silent Circle and how the threat landscape has changed in recent years.
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Phil Zimmermann: 'We Really, Really Don't Have the Keys'
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico--Phil Zimmermann has seen more changes in the the threat landscape in his career than he may care to remember. The inventor of the PGP encryption software and one of the key movers in the crypto wars of the early 1990s, Zimmermann is back in the game now with a new mobile crypto system that's designed to help take the prospect of government eavesdropping and criminal attacks on mobile communications off the table.
Blog: Brazilian Masquerade
Predictive Security Analytics Tool Available Free to Researchers
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Dan Hubbard has lately been a regular face at a lot of big data meet-ups. He’s also often been the lone security face at these meet-ups, which are dominated by analytics, search, social media and advertising professionals. That may change soon for the CTO of DNS and security service provider OpenDNS, who announced today at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit that security researchers will have free access to a new tool called Umbrella Security Graph.
SCADA, ICS Bug Brokering Mirrors IT Vulnerability Market
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The world of SCADA and industrial control system vulnerabilities is starting to mirror that of IT security, not only in the demonstration and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities, but in the brokering of flaws and exploits between hackers and organizations interested in buying research.
Chris Soghoian on Wireless Carriers and Android Security
Chris Soghoian of the ACLU discusses the looming crisis of mobile security caused by the failure of mobile carriers to push Android updates to users at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit Monday.
Google Blocks High Profile Sites After Advertising Provider NetSeer is Hacked
Google Chrome users, among others, couldn't access some of the most popular Web sites Monday after an advertising network's corporate Web site was injected with malware. But, according to the ad company's chief executive, those sites were safe.
FTC Endorses New Privacy Guidelines, Do Not Track for Mobile Apps, Devices
Hoping to ramp up privacy on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a series of suggestions to help app developers, advertising networks and device companies better protect their users online.
Department of Energy Compromised in Sophisticated Attack
Hackers targeted and compromised computer networks at United States Department of Energy headquarters in Washington DC two weeks ago, according to a report published by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this morning.
Partial Disclosure Leaves Adobe Reader Zero-Day Story in Limbo
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – It’s the vulnerability that never was. Or was it?
Wireless Carriers Put on Notice About Providing Regular Android Security Updates
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Activist Chris Soghoian, whom in the past has targeted zero-day brokers with his work, has turned his attention toward wireless carriers and their reluctance to provide regular device updates to Android mobile devices.
How the RSA Attackers Swung and Missed at Lockheed Martin
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO--The attack that resulted in the compromise of RSA's SecurID database in 2011 had a lot of ramifications and sent shockwaves through much of the security industry. But it could have had much broader consequences had the security team at Lockheed Martin not discovered the same attack team on its own network and taken actions to shut them down.
Blog: New crimeware attacks LatAm bank users
Citadel Trojan: It’s Not Just for Banking Fraud Anymore
Banking malware has primarily been just that, an attack tool used against financial institutions to steal money from online bank accounts. But what if cybercrime gangs decided to flip that on its head, and use malware such as the Citadel banking Trojan to steal credentials from not only banks, but government agencies and commercial businesses?
Juniper’s Junos Could Open Routers to TCP Attacks
Some systems running older versions of Juniper Networks’ Junos OS software could be vulnerable to a transmission control protocol (TCP) flaw that can enable a hacker to crash and reboot certain routers.
