USB sticks remain a big security weakness for many UK organisations with many employees using drives for data transport without permission and not bothering to report their loss, a Ponemon Institute study has found. The study polled 451 IT staff in the UK from a global total of 2,942 on…
F-Secure finds digitally signed malware
This screenshot shows details of the certificate that was stolen and used to trick computers into trusting malware. (Credit: F-Secure) Researchers at F-Secure have uncovered a rarity–malware that is signed with a valid code-signing certificate stolen from a government. The malware uses a certificate for mardi.gov.my, which is the Agricultural…
Firewalls fail to stem tide of DDoS attacks, survey finds
Companies still rely heavily on firewalls to defend themselves against denial-of-service attacks despite the fact that this class of device is often not up to the task, a new survey by F5 Networks has found. The survey of 1,000 medium and large organisations in 10 countries found that up to…
Palo Alto Networks Finds Unknown Malware Rampant In Enterprise Networks
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — New research from Palo Alto Networks conducted using the company’s WildFire(TM) malware analysis engine shows that targeted and unknown malware are a reality in enterprise networks today, finding hundreds of unique, previously-unknown malware samples on live networks. Every network that tested WildFire’s…
Researcher finds major security flaw in Facebook
A security penetration tester discovered a major flaw in Facebook that could allow a person to send anyone on the social-networking site malicious applications. Nathan Power, a senior security penetration tester at technology consultancy CDW, discovered the vulnerability and publicly disclosed it Thursday on his blog. The flaw was reported…
Apple Hacker Finds Evidence Of Qualcomm In iTunes Core
8 images Gallery: Scenes From Apple’s WWDC Video: Boss, I Want To Build A Sexy iPhone App! Since at least last September there have been rumors about whether Apple has tapped wireless chipset manufacturer Qualcomm to power cellular baseband in next generation of Apple iOS devices, namely iPhone 5 and…
Zero-day exploits rarely used by criminals, Microsoft finds
Software exploits, including zero-day attacks, appear to play a much smaller part in malware infections than previously thought, Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report (SIRv11) has found. The vast majority of malware infections detected by the company’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) for the first half of 2011 depended either on…
Verizon PCI report finds firms struggling to maintain compliance
Many businesses struggle to maintain PCI DSS compliance, suggesting meeting the standard is a goal rather than an ongoing initiative, according to a new report from Verizon Business. <img alt="Verizon PCI report finds firms struggling to maintain compliance, Blog, Report, Finds, Firms, Verizon, compliance, struggling, maintain"height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz…
Fraud audit finds flaws in department
Almost 10 per cent of senior officials in one federal department have been investigated for fraud. View full post on credit report fraud – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security Gergory Evans
Microsoft’s IE9 Blocks Almost All Social Malware, Study Finds
A study prepared by NSS Labs concludes that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 blocks virtually all socially engineered malware, far more than rival browsers. The study was designed to examine one aspect of security: how a browser handled a malicious URL, such as one received in a posting on a social…
