A piece of malware from the M00p group showing their name embedded in the code. Courtesy of F-Secure It’s rare that malware-writing crews get arrested for creating the tools that criminals use. But a presentation at the Virus Bulletin conference in Spain this week described an extensive operation in which…
Homs, Syria, Spirals Down Toward Civil War
Across the political spectrum, residents of Homs, Syria, speak of a recent shift, from a largely peaceful uprising to a struggle that has made the city violent, fearful and determined. View full post on cellphone security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
The ‘Worm’ That Could Bring Down The Internet
As many as 12 million computers worldwide have been infected with a highly-encrypted computer worm called Conficker. Writer Mark Bowden details how Conficker was discovered, how it works, and the ongoing programming battle to bring down Conficker in his book Worm: The First Digital World War. View full post on…
Police commissioner: NYPD could take down planes
Associated Press The Hamilton Spectator NEW YORK — The chief of the New York Police Department says city police could take down a plane, if necessary. Commissioner Ray Kelly told CBS’s 60 Minutes Sunday that after the Sept. 11 attacks, he decided the city couldn’t rely on the federal government…
Do not write your password down and leave it near your computer
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Symantec cloud-based service hunts down ‘rogue certificates’
Symantec has introduced a cloud-based Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center to keep track of SSL server certificates used by an organisation. The service works with an on-premises software component that can help IT managers seek rogue SSL certificates and check when internal certificates expire. “Every SSL certificate comes with a shelf…
Man in wheelchair falls down elevator shaft
A shocking video of a man in a wheelchair falling down an elevator shaft? Is that really what you want to watch? Well, if it is, then you’re just the kind of person that a newly-discovered Facebook scam is looking for. Messages on the social network have been seen like…
Hack takes down Linux websites
Linux.com and LinuxFoundation.org were among a number of Linux websites pulled offline after a security breach. The breach is believed to be related to the hack of the Kernel.org website that is home to the Linux Project at the beginning of the month. In a holding message on its website,…
Vodacom Clamps Down on Stolen Phone Fraud
South Africas Vodacom has launched a new security feature that will help protect its customers from cellphone fraud by automatically locking their SIM card if irregular call activity is detected. View full post on cellphone security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Microsoft, Vodafone and the Telegraph websites taken down in DNS hack
A Turkish hacking group managed to tamper with Internet addressing records over the weekend, redirecting dozens of websites belonging to companies including Microsoft, UPS and Vodafone to a different web pages controlled by the hackers. According to Zone-H, a website that tracks defacements, 186 websites were redirected to a page…