Kaspersky Lab – which to a large extent has led the analyses of the new cyberweapon class of malware (Stuxnet, Duqu, and Flame) has been taking a closer look at what the most destructive sample, Wiper, has left behind.
VirusBuster is dead. Long live Agnitum’s VirusBuster
On 7 August 2012, the Hungarian anti-virus company VirusBuster announced the cessation of its similarly-named VirusBuster anti-virus product: the development department is “no longer sustainable in its current form and therefore is in the process of cl…
Megaupload v2 in the pipeline
Kim Dotcom never accepted that Meagupload was finished. Now he has said that it will return, bigger, better and more secure than ever. “We are building a massive global network. All non-US hosters will be able to connect servers & bandwidth. Get ready….
Second LulzSec member arrested over Sony hacks
Raynaldo Rivera (aged 20), aka neuron, royal and wildicv, has been taken into custody following his indictment last week charging him with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer; that is, last year’s Sony hacks.
Brain hacking for neurocomputing inches closer to reality
Imagine a world where sensitive information can be extracted from a brain-computer interface via electronics that quite literally pick your brain for passwords. It may sound like science fiction, but a new experiment into the space has revealed a poten…
DR Web discovers the first Linux/OSX cross-platform trojan
Dr Web, the Russian anti-malware company that did much to expose the growth of the Flashback botnet, has found the first Linux/OSX cross-platform trojan – which it calls BackDoor.Wirenet.1
There’s a new zero-day Java exploit in the wild
A new Java exploit has been discovered. While not yet widespread, it is in the wild, works with all major browsers, is potentially cross-platform – and has no available patch.
ENISA sees problems with European cybersecurity legislation
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published a report on ‘Cyber Incident Reporting in the EU’ and has found implementation gaps: “incidents remain undetected or not reported.”
Hacker collective leaks one million records, vows ‘hellfire’
Hacker collective Team GhostShell is boasting that it has breached more than one million user records from 100 corporate and public affairs websites across a variety of industry segments, and leaked them online.
Dropbox adds two-step authentication
File-sharing has long had a reputation for being a veritable petri dish for viruses and/or credential or identity theft, but web-storage and sharing provider Dropbox is now offering two-factor authentication to thwart would-be hackers.