Twitter aims to become safer with two-step sign-in
Twitter, in a much-needed move to keep its users safer from cyberattacks, is introducing a more secure login process. read moremore…
Skillport Online Training Site Outage
The Penn State University Skillport site is experiencing an outage that began around 4:20pm on May 22, 2013. Users are unable to log in at this time. There is an unexpected site wide outage which the vendor is currently investigating and attempting to resolve.more…
Inquiry Spotlight: Consumer-Facing Identity
The challenges of consumer-facing identity management, access management, and authentication differ in ways subtle and dramatic from those of the employee-facing variety. read moremore…
Keeping Up With the Andromeda Botnet
Last March, I blogged about the Andromeda, a well-known botnet that surfaced in 2011 and is making a comeback this year. Just months after my report, we are still seeing notable activities from the said botnet, in particular a sudden boost of GAMARUE variants last week. The Andromeda botnet is a spam botnet that delivers […]more…
Growing mobile malware threat swirls (mostly) around Android
Mobile devices are getting hit by a boom in malware similar to the one that hit PCs starting with the rise of the Web, a security software executive said Tuesday. read moremore…
Mac Spyware: OSX/KitM (Kumar in the Mac)
There’s another case of Backdoor:OSX/KitM.A in the wild. A German-based investigator reached out to us yesterday regarding OSX/KitM. (We wrote about it last week.) KitM stands for “Kumar in the Mac”, which is our designation for spyware — related to OSX/Filesteal a.k.a. OSX/HackBack — that is signed using an Apple Developer ID in the name […]more…
With a cybercrime plan as poorly thought out as this, maybe it’s no wonder the Soviet Union didn’t survive.more…
Blue Coat Systems to acquire security analytics firm Solera Networks
Blue Coat Systems, a provider of Web traffic filtering and business assurance products and services, plans to buy security analytics specialist Solera Networks, which uses data mining techniques to classify network traffic and detect potential security threats. read moremore…
Breakfast malware at Tiffany’s? Trojan horses spammed out widely
Little blue boxes from Tiffany & Co. are the stuff of dreams for many. Don’t let an unexpected email delivery – apparently from the company – make you so giddy with an excitement that you end up with a computer nightmare.more…
Microsoft is reading Skype messages
Think your Skype communications are safe from prying eyes and ears? You might need to think again.more…
New Citadel malware variant targets Payza online payment platform
A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local in-browser attacks to steal their credentials, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. read moremore…
Small businesses beware! Point-of-sale malware is after you
Malware targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems has been a major trend for the last six months. With easy pickings to be had from mom-and-pop shops, this pattern is only going to grow until people start fighting back with better system security, and ideally better payment card systems. Virus Bulletin’s Technical Director John Hawes takes a look….more…
Operation Aurora hack was counterespionage, not China picking on Tibetan activists
Claims are made that the Aurora hackers weren’t just Chinese-sponsored hackers bent on messing with Tibetan activists. Rather it was a Chinese counterintelligence operation that sought to discover if the US had uncovered the identity of clandestine agents operating within its borders.more…