Secunia brings own spin to vulnerability rewards programs
Another day, another vulnerability reporting reward program. Kinda.
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Report: ‘R&D is under attack’ from China, Russia
According to a U.S. intelligence report made available to Congress, foreign nations and other actors are using cyberespionage to take sensitive technology and trade data, and those actions pose a threat to American interests. Reuters reported Thursday that in a report titled “Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace,” the Office of the National Counterintelligence confirmed that foreign intelligence services, corporations and individuals have increased their efforts to take research and development data relating to U.S
Cloud security among PCI Council 2012 special interest groups
The PCI Security Standards Council announced the latest slate of special interest groups that it will prioritize next year. Merchants, financial institutions, service providers and others voted on a variety of potential SIGs before settling on cloud, ecommerce security and risk assessment
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Facebook users targeted by transformed Carberp Trojan
Attackers seize on the trust victim?s have in the social network by setting up a tricky man-in-the-browser attack and demanding $25 in cash.
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Facebook users targeted by transformed Carberp Trojan
Symantec breach: Data breach basis of Norton source code leak
Investigators confirmed that a 2006 breach at Symantec Corp. is the root cause of a source code leak of its Norton Antivirus software.
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Symantec launches mobile security evaluation, app assessment services
Security assessment reviews an organization’s mobile security policies and technologies, evaluating the mobile security posture against a set of 15 core elements. Symantec’s consulting team is launching a mobile security assessment service , designed to assess a business’ mobile security policies and defensive technologies. The new service is an extension of the Symantec Security Program Assessment.
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Website weaknesses at fault in T-Mobile hacktivist attack
A hacktivist group is claiming responsibility for exploiting website vulnerabilities and stealing the personal information of approximately 80 T-Mobile employees.
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Website weaknesses at fault in T-Mobile hacktivist attack
Nitro attackers sending malicious emails using Symantec report
By Hillary O’Rourke, Contributor The cybercriminals responsible for the Nitro attacks have certainly showed audacity in their latest move: Sending malicious emails claiming to be from security vendor Symantec with the company’s own report on those Nitro attacks. According to a Symantec blog post, the group, which is currently targeting chemical companies, is using the same social engineering techniques they have used in previous attacks, but lately they have been sending malicious emails that are created to look like they were sent by Symantec’s technical support department. “They are sending targets a password-protected archive, through email, which contains a malicious executable,” explained Symantec researchers keeping a close watch on the group’s attack techniques.
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Typosquatter hive targets holiday shoppers
Every year the holiday season is a boon to typosquatters using scams to phish unsuspecting users of sensitive information or peddle rogue antivirus software. By Hillary O’Rourke, Contributor With the hassle of finding the best deal and coping with the constant crowds, online shopping has never been more popular for the holiday season. But with that ease comes a warning from Websense: keep an eye out for online scams, particularly typosquatted sites
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Typosquatter hive targets holiday shoppers