August 26, 2011 - Welcome to another week in infosec with Friday Security Highlights. Yesterday from the @McAfeeBusiness Twitter handle, we live-tweeted the Dark Reading & InformationWeek virtual session The Aftermath of a Security Breach – Getting the Ship Righted Again. We (continue reading...) Read more
August 26, 2011 - You may be aware that Cameron Camp and I regularly write articles for SC Magazine's Cybercrime Corner: here here's a catch-up list of the most recent, in the hope that you might find them of use and interest. At any rate, (continue reading...) Read more
August 23, 2011 - Can’t find a way to support a hacktivist with your l337 sK1LLz? Turns out they take tips, bitcoin tips. We mused awhile back about the emergence of bitcoin as a favorite underground currency. Now, on the heels of the (continue reading...) Read more
August 22, 2011 - Is that possible? Well, a researcher with Identity Finder, Aaron Titus, believes so, since he says he managed to use internet searches to unearth a trove of unsecured private health records on a website, around 300,000 of them. He (continue reading...) Read more
August 17, 2011 - It has been 1,000 days since the Conficker worm first appeared on November 21, 2008. For the first two months after its initial appearance we received a trickle of reports through our ThreatSense.NET telemetry system. By January of (continue reading...) Read more
August 17, 2011 - For the last two weeks, the media in Sydney, Australia, have been fascinated with a police investigation into a most peculiar crime committed in one (continue reading...) Read more
August 16, 2011 - With the publication last year of Aryeh Goretsky's paper “Twenty years before the mouse,” a personal perspective on the history of viruses and malware so far, I took the opportunity to try something a little different for this blog (continue reading...) Read more
August 9, 2011 - On the heels of the recent activity with Stuxnet, the industrial process control computer worm that targeted Iranian nuclear centrifuges, a Blackhat talk by Thanassis Giannetsos explains how to hack yet another commonly used family of controllers. We have mused (continue reading...) Read more
August 7, 2011 - UK broadsheet The Guardian reported recently that London's Metropolitan Police Service, colloquially known as The Met, has quadrupled the size of its cybercrime unit in the (continue reading...) Read more
August 3, 2011 - I get a lot of press enquiries currently about hacktivism, usually in the context of certain groups who have had more than enough publicity already. While discussing some related issues with my colleagues at ESET UK, it occurred to me that (continue reading...) Read more
July 29, 2011 - Have you ever bitten into an apple and found a worm? I have, and it’s yummy! Anyway, how many times have you heard, or even said, “I won’t get that computer virus because I have a Mac”? While Mac users (continue reading...) Read more
July 25, 2011 - President Obama unveiled his plans to combat what the United States is calling "Transnational Organized Crime" (TOC) in a paper released by the White House this morning. The (continue reading...) Read more
July 25, 2011 - The Ponemon Institute published new data on the cost of breaches in the US. This year, spending as a result of breaches will reach $130B. (continue reading...) Read more
July 20, 2011 - A 24-year-old, described as a researcher at Harvard University's Center for Ethics, has been arrested in Massachusetts, USA, on a raft of computer crime charges. The youngster, (continue reading...) Read more
July 17, 2011 - Statistics on bank fraud provided by Group-IB (our partners in Russia dealing with cybercrime investigation) are in accordance with our own, indicating that the period when the bot was most active was the spring of 2011. (continue reading...) Read more
July 15, 2011 - Identity theft is big news on the Internet. The general business world, the world of finance, and social networks are regularly attacked by crooks or self-styled hacktivists who use, sell, or just disseminate credentials and private data. But the cybercrime (continue reading...) Read more
July 11, 2011 - McAfee Labs is pleased to announce the availability of our “Fake Alert” Stinger – an improved Stinger tool with aggressive generic content targeted at enhanced detection and remediation of fake alert based threats. In our efforts to provide the best of (continue reading...) Read more
July 5, 2011 - On March 4th of this year, exactly 20 months to the day of a similar incident on US Independence Day in 2009, a botnet based out of South Korea launched Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against 40 (continue reading...) Read more
June 29, 2011 - Facebook recently launched a facial recognition feature that allows you and others to “tag” photos with your name. As has been the norm for Facebook, this “feature” is turned on by default and users must take their own initiative to (continue reading...) Read more
June 28, 2011 - Ballarat, a country town in Victoria, Australia, has made the news today thanks to social networking. Under the headline Police tell users Facebook takes the complaints, regional newspaper The Courier reports: Flyers have been sent to several police stations in (continue reading...) Read more