Composer Roger Davidson was scammed out of millions of dollars after he brought his laptop into a computer repair shop in Westchester County, New York, in 2004 to get rid of a virus.
Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson reports on a new Facebook phishing vector
The fact that social networking portal has more than 500 million members attracts attacks like moths to a flame. Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson has seen an interesting new twist to phishing this week on the site.
Defence minister Nick Harvey to detail UK cyber battle plans
Armed forces minister Nick Harvey is to expand on recent announcements on UK cyber defences in London today.
Royal Navy website sunk by SQL injection hacker
One of the websites operated by the Royal Navy was shut down yesterday, after a hacker called TinKode gained unauthorised access to the server using an SQL injection attack.
ZeuS malware dominates October malware landscape
The latest monthly analysis of the malware landscape from Kaspersky Lab shows that the ZeuS trojan continued to strike, as it became one of the most commonly used and best-selling spy programmes on the online black market.
Many hands cooperated to build Stuxnet worm
More than 30 people built Stuxnet worm, noted Brian Tillett, information security researcher at Symantec. Stuxnet has attacked a range of targets including Iranian nuclear facilities and Chinese computers.
ICO planning data breach fines later this month says commissioner
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is preparing to impose fines on companies that break provisions of the Data Protection Act later this month, the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, has said.
Massive DDoS attack knocks Burma offline
A serious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has effectively taken the country of Burma offline. The attack, which started on Tuesday, has reportedly clogged up the country’s main 45 Mbps internet feed, with DDoS packet rates of between 10 and…
One in eight malware attacks are via a USB device, study shows
A growing number of malware attacks are using plug-in USB devices, according to researchers at security firm Avast Software.
SpyEye trojan attacks heated up in the summer
The SpyEye trojan, which is competing for criminal “business” with Zeus, has seen a recent surge in activity, according to Lance James, a security researcher at Damballa.