There’s some good news and some bad news in Mac malware land: the number of machines estimated to be infected has dropped, but that number hasn’t gone down as fast as experts expected. In a blog post today, software maker and security firm Symantec lowered its estimate of machines that…
Symantec: Flashback malware now down to 140K machines
There’s some good news and some bad news in Mac malware land: the number of machines estimated to be infected has dropped, but that number hasn’t gone down as fast as experts expected. In a blog post today, software maker and security firm Symantec lowered its estimate of machines that…
Apple security team touches down on Planet Earth!
In KB article HT5244, Apple has – apparently for the very first time! – talked openly about a security problem before it has all its threat reponse ducks in a row. This is good news. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
ProtectMyID: The good news: the #FTCSentinel reports that credit card #fraud continues to trend downward. Total credit card fraud is down 17.6% since…
ProtectMyID: The good news: the #FTCSentinel reports that credit card #fraud continues to trend downward. Total credit card fraud is down 17.6% since… View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Ukraine shuts down popular malware writer forum VX Heavens
Ukrainian authorities have shut down a long-running forum that was used to trade tips on writing malicious software, a sign the country’s law enforcement may be watching hackers more closely. Administrators for the forum, VX Heavens, wrote that its servers were seized on 23 March for allegedly creating and intending…
Kelihos botnet mark II taken down by security firms
A group of malware experts from security companies Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, have worked together to disable the second version of the Kelihos botnet, which is significantly bigger than the one shut down by Microsoft and its partners in September 2011. The Kelihos botnet, also…
EU clamps down on cybercrime, but file-sharers won’t be targeted
The European Commission is to get tough on cybercrime, but won’t target illegal file-sharing, it revealed on earlier today. The Commission proposes to set up a European Cybercrime Centre as part of the European police force, Europol, in The Hague in the Netherlands. The centre would have a separate governing…
EU clamp down on cybercrime, but file-sharers won’t be targeted
The European Commission is to get tough on cybercrime, but won’t target illegal file-sharing, it revealed on earlier today. The Commission proposes to set up a European Cybercrime Centre as part of the European police force, Europol, in The Hague in the Netherlands. The centre would have a separate governing…
Security Researchers Take Down ‘Kelihos Botnet’
Security researchers from four different organizations brought down a botnet by turning a supposed strength of the criminals’ spamming network into a fatal weakness. Experts from CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks, the Honeynet Project and Kaspersky Lab crippled the second-coming of the Kelihos botnet on March 21 by “sinkholing” about 118,000 bot-infected…
Flu numbers way down so far
P.E.I. health officials are wondering what’s happened with the flu virus this year. It’s the middle of March and so far there have only been nine lab-confirmed cases of the flu on the Island. One person was hospitalized last week, but has since been released. “We still feel like it’s…