The free open-source web application firewall known as ModSecurity – once just an Apache plug-in – now also plugs directly into IIS and Nginx web servers, and is particularly good for virtual patching.
Financial malware uses Facebook for new children’s charity scam
Earlier in May it was found that Citadel was delivering the Reveton ransomware. Now Trusteer has discovered it delivering a children’s charity scam to Facebook users.
New Mac trojan discovered: OSX Crisis (or Morcut)
Mac security firm Intego was the first to sound the alarm yesterday, calling the newly discovered trojan Backdoor:OSX/Crisis. Today Sophos issues its own warning about OSX/Morcut.A – which seems to be the same malware.
FTC warns unauthorized wireless charges becoming a significant problem
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning that unauthorized charges on wireless phone bills, known as “cramming”, are becoming an increasingly serious problem for US consumers.
Boston hospital loses laptop with patients’ personal information
A physician’s unencrypted personal laptop that may have contained protected health information on 3,900 patients at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center was stolen, the hospital admitted Monday.
Latest report shows India now ahead of the US in email spam volume
The latest ‘Dirty Dozen’ spam-relaying countries report from Sophos shows that Asia in general, and India in particular, is now responsible for the greatest volume of the world’s spam.
Pinterest locks down accounts to stem hacking
The social sharing site Pinterest has begun temporarily locking down accounts in an effort to combat an increase in suspected hacking on the site.
More than 100 infected PCs found in Japan’s Finance Ministry
The Japanese Finance Ministry announced on Friday that it had discovered 123 desktop computers that had been infected with a remote access trojan between January 2010 and November 2011.
Growing concern over what Microsoft may be doing with Skype
Following the first ever loss reported by Microsoft last week – largely blamed on the purchase of aQuantive in 2007 – it is the purchase of Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011 that is most concerning security folks.
Nearly 70,000 mobile phones will be lost or stolen during the London Olympics
Venafi has been extrapolating statistics from mobile phone loss – and expects the equivalent of 200 million books full of data will be lost during the course of the London Olympics.