ChangeUp is the Symantec name for the worm known as W32/VBNA-X by Sophos and W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb by McAfee. All three companies are warning their users about an increase in detections over the last few days.
BPI demands UK Pirate Party shut down its Pirate Bay proxy
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has written to the UK Pirate Party, a democratic political party, and demanded that it close the proxy service it provides to allow users to bypass the ISP block on The Pirate Bay.
Hewlett Packard’s Autonomy woes deepen
On Tuesday a new shareholder lawsuit claimed audit firms Deloitte and KPMG missed red flags about Autonomy’s accounting, and also named HP’s board of directors, officers, and former executives alleging breach of duty and negligence.
Report tests browser ability to filter malicious URLs
NSS Labs has published the second of its two analyses on the security capabilities of the four leading browsers. The first report was on the ability of browsers to block malware; this second is on browsers ability to filter malicious URLs.
Crystal ball time: Top 2013 risks include cyber war, cloud and BYOD
As the year draws inexorably to a close, it’s only fair and natural that we, as an industry, peer into the future to see what could await us in the New Year. The latest to tackle such prognostication is the Information Security Forum (ISF), which has I…
91% of APT attacks start with a spear-phishing email…
…and 94% of the emails carry a malicious attachment – usually in ZIP, XLS or RTF format. These are the findings of new research published today.
Critical infrastructure at risk from SCADA vulnerabilities
SCADA software, used for industrial control mechanisms in utilities, airports, nuclear facilities, manufacturing plants and the like, is increasingly a target for hackers looking to exploit what appear to be growing numbers of vulnerabilities – giving …
Critical infrastructure at risk from SCADA vulnerabilities
SCADA software, used for industrial control mechanisms in utilities, airports, nuclear facilities, manufacturing plants and the like, is increasingly a target for hackers looking to exploit what appear to be growing numbers of vulnerabilities – giving …
Yahoo! mail exploit on sale for $700
A new zero-day vulnerability in Yahoo! Mail has given rise to a $700 exploit for sale in the hacking underground.
Europol and ICE seize 132 domain names on Cyber Monday
The US Operation In Our Sights temporarily morphed into Project Cyber Monday 3 – with a European Project Transatlantic offshoot – and netted a combined haul of 132 seized counterfeiting website domains.