Zeus Trojan update adds P2P takedown resistance

The Zeus financial malware has been updated with P2P (peer-to-peer) functionality that makes it much more resilient to takedown efforts and gives its controllers flexibility in how they run their fraud operations. The new version of the infamous banking Trojan was discovered and analysed by Swiss security expert Roman Hüssy,…

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Amazon adds free encryption to storage service

IDG News Service – Using Amazon Web Services’ new Server Side Encryption feature, enterprises will at no extra cost be able to encrypt data stored on the company’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon said Tuesday. The Server Side Encryption feature has been added to simplify the process of protecting data…

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