The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is undertaking a number of cybersecurity research and development projects for the Department of Defense designed to prevent surprise cyberattacks.
Bredolab botnet revealed by Kaspersky Lab analyst
Kaspersky Lab’s malware analyst Alexei Kadiev has posted an interesting analysis on how the Bredolab botnet – which infected around 30 million PCs at its height – functioned.
Symantec researcher spots C&C botnet toolkit in the wild
Security researchers from Symantec claim to have spotted a new crimeware toolkit being sold in the underground marketplace. The toolkit – known as Dream Loader – generates a trojan that is exclusively used to distribute malware.
Hotmail tries to plug phishing with Active Views
Hotmail is claiming it can now tackle its biggest security issues with a way to send and receive active e-mail messages.
Imperva CEO says DRM and cloud security will be key defences against rising cyberthreats in 2011
Shlomo Kramer is well known in the IT security industry for being a co-founder of Check Point and, more recently, has been CEO/president of data security specialist Imperva. Infosecurity caught up with him in London this week for his observations – and…
Facebook intros automated photo-tagging; creates social networking risk says security researcher
A new feature on Facebook is, at the very least, questionable, and may even be a social networking risk, says a leading IT security researcher.
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Court blocks former Bank of America employees from using client data
Bank of America recently won a ruling blocking four former employees of its U.S. Trust unit from using the bank’s client information at their new employer, Dynasty Financial Partners.
Hackers gain access to Ohio State server with 760,000 personal records
The Ohio State University said that a university server containing personal information on 760,000 people was accessed by hackers. The university stressed that it had no information that the personal information was taken from the server.
Open Group backs initiative to protect supply chain from cybercrime
Leading technology businesses are backing an initiative to help organisations secure global supply chains against cybercrime threats.