The National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) – a congressionally-funded non-profit organization that provides training, investigative support and research to agencies and entities involved in the prevention, investigation and prosecution of cybercrime…
Symantec Takes Down a Sizeable Chunk of the ZeroAccess Botnet
The ZeroAccess botnet, the bandwidth-intensive bug that is known as the most pervasive bot around the world, has had some of the wind knocked out of it. Security firm Symantec has executed a sinkholing operation that took down more than half a million …
APT Threat Actors Exploit IE Vulnerability
An IE zero-day vulnerability only made public knowledge by Microsoft two weeks ago has already been used by multiple APT threat actors, including Deputy Dog, Taidoor, th3bug, and Web2Crew.
Project Sonar Kicks Off Crowdsourced, Internet-Wide Security Scanning
Crowdsourcing is being used for everything from start-up funding to news reporting, and it makes sense that the idea would make it to the security community. Rapid7 has kicked off Project Sonar, a collaborative effort to improve security through the ac…
NSA Creates Detailed Graphical Analyses that Include Americans’ Metadata
The latest Edward Snowden leaks show that the NSA not merely collects metadata (everything about a communication excluding the content) from Americans and non-Americans alike, it generates automatic graphical analyses from that data.
Britain’s Defense Policy Adds Cyber Deterrence to Nuclear Deterrence
“You deter people by having an offensive capability. We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us,” said UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.
London Teenager Arrested in Connection with Spamhaus DDoS
In March this year, anti-spam website Spamhaus suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 300 gigabits per second, the largest ever recorded and sufficient to disrupt the internet itself in some parts of Europe.
(ISC)² Congress 2013: Financial Market Manipulation Poised as Next Wave in Cybercrime
Scott Borg, the man who foresaw a Stuxnet-style cyber-attack years before it was discovered, has issued his latest prediction: manipulation of financial markets will be the long-term cybercrime wave of the future.
Intermedia Buys UK Cloud SSO firm SaaSID
Intermedia, a US provider of cloud-based business applications, has acquired SaaSID, a UK start-up that provides SSO across all cloud services from any device.
The Five Personas of Cloud Adoption
It is no longer enough to say that business comprises those who have adopted cloud technology and those who will adopt cloud technology. New research from NTT Com Security (erstwhile Integralis) describes five separate personas in attitude to cloud; al…