The UK’s Territorial Army is a paid force of part-time volunteers that make up around 25% of the army’s manpower. It is considered an essential part of the UK’s defense force. Now GCHQ is thinking of using the same principle to bolster the UK’s cyber d…
Malicious emails: Romney almost President
A new malicious email campaign pretends to be from CNN. It announces breaking news – Mitt Romney is ‘almost president’. But it leads to a Blackhole exploit site.
Firefox 16 shipped, pulled and updated within 2 days
Firefox 16 was released on Tuesday, pulled from the download page on Wednesday, and replaced with Firefox 16.0.1 on Thursday. The main cause was that Tuesday’s version introduced a new critical bug that was fixed by Thursday.
SMBs more vulnerable to data breaches than larger brethren
Contrary to conventional wisdom, hackers don’t just target large enterprises with vast amounts of data to steal. Small- and medium-sized businesses are just as attractive of targets, and in some cases are more so.
RSA Europe 2012: Anonymous responds to Corman’s comments
“Anonymous has very few hackers, it has very few activists… It is very misleading to call the groups hacktivists. The common attribute is angst. The talented ones are either quitting or starting to do things that are more clandestine.”
Teen hacker earns $60K for full Google Chrome exploit
A teenage hacker with the handle ‘Pinkie Pie’ has nabbed a $60,000 prize from Google, for launching a full Chrome exploit for the second time.
First annual report of cyber incidents in the EU
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published its first Annual Incidents Report from data supplied in conformance with Article 13a of the EU’s telecom reform directive.
RSA Europe 2012: UK’s ID Assurance Programme puts verification choice into user’s hands
At this week’s RSA Europe Conference in London, representatives from the UK Government outlined details of a pan-government model for identity assurance that engages the services of third-party ID verification providers
Android adware, Zitmo botnets and Romanian hackers, oh my!
We’re not in Kansas anymore: The third quarter of 2012 saw a marked increase in Android adware, while new evidence surfaced suggesting that the Zeus-in-the-Mobile (Zitmo) banking trojan is evolving into a botnet. And, Romanian hackers are continuing to…
RSA Europe 2012: DDoS Attacks Used as Diversion Technique
DDoS attacks are being used as a component in the newly emerged multi-flank attacks, Symantec’s deSouza told his audience at RSA Europe 2012 in London, 09 October 2012.