August 25, 2011 - Transocean, one of the world's biggest offshore drilling contractors, is currently compromised: its main Web site at deepwater.com is hosting malicious exploit code. Recently, Transocean has been implicated in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulting from the explosion (continue reading...) Read more
August 23, 2011 - With the release of Social Web Control, Websense Security Labs™ looks at the growing trend of how you can optimize your popularity ranking on social Web sites such as Twitter and Sina's Weibo. Marketeers are heavily tuning social Web sites for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) (continue reading...) Read more
August 22, 2011 - In this week’s Websense Security Labs Video, Chris Astacio discusses a mass injection attack that is compromising a wide swath of WordPress sites through a vulnerability in TimThumb.php, a common module used in many WordPress themes. This widespread attack (continue reading...) Read more
August 18, 2011 - Websense ThreatSeeker® Network has been monitoring an increase in malicious spam activity over the last 28 days, and a recent spike which seems to be spreading quickly and in large amounts begs the suspicion that a spam bot or a bot network is awake. (continue reading...) Read more
August 15, 2011 - If you follow our blogs or you are an active user of Facebook, you must have noticed that Facebook scams are very popular. A shocking video appears on your friends' walls and a few curious clicks then trick you into filling in a fake (continue reading...) Read more
August 15, 2011 - With the popularity of the WordPress blogging platform the security researchers here in Websense Security Labs are sure to sit up and take note of any reported zero day affecting the platform itself or the plugins used by blog masters. Recently (continue reading...) Read more
August 9, 2011 - Websense Security Labs™ and the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network have detected malicious emails disguised as HSBC Notifications. A closer look at these emails, like the one you can see below, reveals that the link provided in the emails is a compromised URL belonging (continue reading...) Read more
August 2, 2011 - Google is synonymous with the Web - from the search engine through Web-based email to video sharing, they are arguably the market leader. However, this has not been the case with social networking. They were constantly searching for a new way to set up a (continue reading...) Read more
August 2, 2011 - Websense Security Labs™ and the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network have detected a new scam that is currently spreading on Facebook. The new scam titled Take the Free $1,000 Walmart Gift Card Survey! or Get A Free Walmart Gift Card! is disguised as a (continue reading...) Read more
July 29, 2011 - This week, some of the members of the Websense Security Labs™ will be attending Black Hat USA 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Blackhat is arguably the largest and most important Internet security conference in the world. Armin Beuscher and I (Stephan Chenette) (continue reading...) Read more
July 28, 2011 - Websense Security Labs™ just completed a two-day training event with some of our TRITON™ advisory board customers. We showed attendees some of the internal and external tools we use to analyze various Web threats, including PDF, JAR, and SWF exploits. We also (continue reading...) Read more
July 28, 2011 - Websense ThreatSeeker® Network has been monitoring and tracking a recent wave of email attacks being spread and aimed at credit card users and holders. The attack comes in the form of a short email with fairly detailed text alerting the recipient that (continue reading...) Read more
July 26, 2011 - About three years ago code injection was very simple, where most of them were just an iFrame tag. Hackers then started to insert a piece of script code to obfuscate the malicious code, yet the goal still remains the same (continue reading...) Read more
July 26, 2011 - Two major data leaks occurred in Russia over the past several days. Short Message Service (SMS) text messages and personal Information about people who ordered goods from Russian and Ukranian online shops (including sex shops) have been available for public viewing. (continue reading...) Read more
July 25, 2011 - The tragic events that occurred at the end of last week with the Norway attacks and the sudden death of British singer Amy Winehouse resulted in some unwanted scam activities in cyberspace. Websense Security Labs™ and the Websense (continue reading...) Read more
July 11, 2011 - David Beckham's family had a baby girl this weekend, the fourth child in their family. CONGRATULATIONS! Being a very famous football player, Beckham's Web site has been visited by lots of fans and has a relatively high Alexa rank, especially after this weekend: (continue reading...) Read more
July 11, 2011 - David Beckham's family had a baby girl this weekend, the fourth child in their family. CONGRATULATIONS! Being a very famous football player, Beckham's Web site has been visited by lots of fans and has a relatively high Alexa rank, especially after this weekend: (continue reading...) Read more
July 7, 2011 - Over the last couple of months, the concern of whether Mac OS X has become a greater target for attackers has grown, and rightfully so. The Mac OS X market share has steadily increased, and is currently well above (continue reading...) Read more
July 7, 2011 - Over the last couple of months, the concern of whether Mac OS X has become a greater target for attackers has grown, and rightfully so. The Mac OS X market share has steadily increased, and is currently well above (continue reading...) Read more
July 7, 2011 - Over the last couple of months, the concern of whether Mac OS X has become a greater target for attackers has grown, and rightfully so. The Mac OS X market share has steadily increased, and is currently well above (continue reading...) Read more