Targetted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec’s latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.
Oracle’s Ellison challenges former SAP head Apotheker in court showdown
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has challenged former SAP chief executive Leo Apotheker to testify in court over an IP theft suit brought by Oracle against SAP.
Cloud adoption outpacing security controls, survey reveals
While Forrester Research predicts the cloud security market will grow to $1.5bn by 2015, cloud adoption is outpacing security controls, a global survey has revealed.
Dutch government shuts down Bredolab botnet
The Dutch National Crime Squad’s High Tech Crime Team has taken down the Bredolab botnet that had infected at least 30 million computers worldwide.
Pay-TV pirates handed down lengthy jail sentences
In what prosecutors are claiming is a precedent-setting case, a pair of pay-TV pirates have been given lengthy prison sentences and ordered to pay approaching two million euro to Sky TV’s German operation.
Pre-teen gets $3000 for spotting critical flaw in Firefox
The Mozilla Foundation has made much in recent months about its Firefox bug-spotting programme, which rewards spotters with cash when they report security flaws on the popular web browser software. But now it appears that a 12-year-old has scooped an a…
Security researcher reports SpyEye and ZeuS gangs have merged
Unconfirmed reports that the hacker coding gang behind the ZeuS trojan are now working with their SpyEye counterparts gained credence last night when security researcher Brian Krebs reported on the move.
Wikileaks releases 391 832 Iraq war documents
Wikileaks has released over 350 000 documents relating to the Iraq war, claiming 60% of deaths were of civilians.
Adobe issues security warning about Shockwave Player vulnerability
Adobe Systems has issued a security advisory that a critical vulnerability exists in Shockwave Player 11.5.8.612 and earlier versions for Windows and Mac.
State CIOs appeal to feds for information security funding
State chief information officers (CIOs) are appealing to the federal government for aid in implementing information security initiatives, according to Charles Robb, senior policy analyst with the National Association of State Chief Information Officers…