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Article | 31/10/2012 One year after DigiNotar breach, Fox-IT details extent of compromise
The 2011 security breach at Dutch certificate authority (CA) DigiNotar resulted in an extensive compromise and was facilitated in part by shortcomings...
Article | 30/10/2012 Lack of abuse detection allows cloud computing instances to be used like botnets, study says
Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cybercriminals with an opportunity to ...
Article | 26/10/2012 Critical flaw found in software used by many industrial control systems
CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems (ICS) from over 200 vendors contains a vulnerability that allows potential attacker...
Article | 14/12/2011 Tech stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous rank in top 10
In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars s...
Article | 5/11/2011 Hacker selling access to compromised websites gets hacked
A hacking group called d33ds broke into the online shop of a rival hacker who sells unauthorized access to high-profile websites and data.
Article | 2/11/2011 Biden, Cameron hit out at Internet censorship, hacking
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday condemned efforts by some countries to censor their citizens' use of...
Article | 28/10/2011 Researcher finds major flaw in Facebook
A security penetration tester discovered a major flaw in Facebook that could allow a person to send anyone on the social-networking site malicious app...
Article | 20/10/2011 German federal Trojan eavesdrops on 15 applications, experts find
A Trojan used by German law enforcement authorities to intercept Internet phone calls is capable of monitoring traffic from 15 programs, including bro...
Article | 15/10/2011 US companies pushed to disclose cyberattacks
Public companies may need to look more closely at their exposure to cyberattacks after new guidelines were released this week by the U.S. Securities a...
Article | 15/10/2011 Bing and Yahoo sponsored results lead to hard-to-remove rootkit
Searching for Flash Player on Bing and Yahoo can lead to rogue pages distributing a hard-to-remove rootkit, according to security researchers from ant...
Article | 13/10/2011 Peer-to-peer update to Zeus Trojan confers resistance to take-downs
The Zeus financial malware has been updated with P-to-P (peer-to-peer) functionality that makes it much more resilient to take-down efforts and gives ...
Article | 12/10/2011 Computer infected? Blame yourself, Microsoft report concludes
Zero-day exploits are nerve-racking for IT professionals but are far less dangerous than unpatched older vulnerabilities for which fixes are available...
Article | 12/10/2011 German officials admit to deploying intercept software
Officials in a number of German state governments have owned up to using the Quellen-TKÜ Trojan Horse software in criminal investigations to intercept...
Article | 12/10/2011 Stonesoft identifies new ways to evade intrusion detection systems
Finnish security firm Stonesoft claims to have developed 163 new attack methods that can evade network intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDP...
Article | 23/09/2011 'Lurid' malware hits Russia, CIS countries
The latest espionage-related hacking campaign detailed by security vendor Trend Micro is most notable for the country it does not implicate: China.