The reverberations from Edward Snowden’s disclosures regarding the National Security Agency continue, with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announcing it has begun a review of the institute’s cryptographic standards and guideli…
Adobe’s Last XP-ready Patches Cover Critical Updates for Flash, Acrobat and Reader
The software maker announces fixes for several remote code execution vulnerabilities.
Spend on Testing Not Marketing says Fortinet
Information security vendors should spend “less on marketing and more on testing”, John Maddison, VP marketing at Fortinet told Infosecurity at Infosecurity Europe 2014
One Direction ‘Free’ Tickets Scam Heats Up Facebook
Free Stones tickets? How about free One Direction tickets if you’re a little younger? A new Facebook bait-and-switch scam is spreading across friendship circles promising one or both; but users should file this one under ‘too good to be true.’
Email Attackers Switch to ‘Blitzkrieg’ Tactics to Maximize Impact
Agari TrustIndex reports cyber gangs are increasingly ‘weaponizing’ their malicious emails with sophisticated threats
Iran’s Operation Saffron Rose Points to Increasing Cyber-espionage Sophistication
FireEye has identified a hacking group inside Iran that is behind Operation Saffron Rose, one of the first espionage campaigns from Iran that went after US aerospace companies and Iranian opposition inside and outside of the country.
NSA Accused of Installing Backdoors on US Tech Exports
Latest Snowden revelations hit new spy agency head Mike Rogers’ attempts to promote greater transparency
Fresh Phishing Scam Aims at Google Account Passwords
Hackers have been stealing Google account passwords in a new and better crafted phishing attack that is hard to catch with traditional heuristic detection, warns Bitdefender. A particularity in how Google Chrome displays data using Uniform Resource Ide…
HMRC Acted Unlawfully in Hiding Details of Spyware Investigation
Judge rules in favor of Privacy International after criticizing HMRC department for failing to reveal details of an investigation into British business Gamma International. The Andover-based firm was accused of breaking export restrictions.
Point-of-Sale Malware Has Become Highly Sophisticated
Point-of-sale (PoS) systems that process debit and credit cards for retail stores and restaurants are in the dubious limelight these days thanks to high-profile hacks at Target and elsewhere. But PoS malware has been lurking around for a very long time…