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Article | 23/03/2012 European mid-size businesses unprepared for data security risks, study says

European mid-size businesses are not doing enough to protect their sensitive data, and need to take employee-related information security threats more...

Article | 23/03/2012 Most webmasters don't know how their websites got hacked, report says

Most owners of compromised websites don't know how their sites got hacked into and only 6 percent detect the malicious activity on their own, accordin...

Article | 22/03/2012 Hacktivism was the leading cause for compromised data in 2011, says Verizon

More than half of data stolen from companies in 2011 was a result of hacktivist actions, even though the majority of data breaches were still caused b...

Article | 22/03/2012 Report about hack threat to Tibetan activists used as lure in attack against them

Hackers are using a recent report about cyberthreats to Tibetan activists as a lure in a new attack against pro-Tibet organizations that distributes W...

Article | 21/03/2012 Researchers discover new Duqu variant that tries to evade antivirus detection

Security researchers have discovered a new variant of the Duqu cyberespionage malware that was designed to evade detection by antivirus products and o...

Article | 20/03/2012 Cost of data breaches falls for first time in seven years

The average organizational cost of data breaches has decreased for the first time in seven years, according to a study released by Symantec and the Po...

Article | 19/03/2012 Java-based Web attack installs hard-to-detect malware in RAM

A hard-to-detect piece of malware that doesn't create any files on the affected systems was dropped onto the computers of visitors to popular news sit...

Article | 17/03/2012 Leaked exploit prompts researcher to publish blueprint for critical RDP vulnerability

Luigi Auriemma, the researcher who discovered a recently patched critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), published a proo...

Article | 16/03/2012 Digitally signed malware is increasingly prevalent, researchers say

Security companies have recently identified multiple malware threats that use stolen digital certificates to sign their components in an attempt to av...

Article | 16/03/2012 Cold-calling scammers target antivirus customers, diversify their tactics

Tech support scammers have started targeting antivirus customers and have diversified their techniques, according to reports from antivirus vendors Av...

Article | 14/03/2012 Cybercriminals bypass e-banking protections with fraudulent SIM cards, says Trusteer

Cybercriminals are impersonating victims in order to obtain replacement SIM cards from their mobile carriers, which they then use to defeat phone-base...

Article | 13/03/2012 Google's trap for Chrome exploit writers leads to crashes for users

A limitation built recently into Google Chrome to detect and block Flash Player exploits ended up breaking certain Flash-based applications and games ...

Article | 10/03/2012 Researchers hack IE9 during second day at Pwn2Own

Internet Explorer 9 was the second browser to succumb to white-hat hackers during the Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouv...

Article | 10/03/2012 Google patches rare critical vulnerability in Chrome

Google has patched a critical Chrome vulnerability disclosed Wednesday at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver that can be exploited to esc...

Article | 9/03/2012 Researchers can't identify programming language used in Duqu, ask for help

Malware experts from Kaspersky Lab have asked the programming community for help identifying the programming language, compiler or framework that was ...