Going into the holiday season, hackers are ramping up their efforts to attack retailers and other businesses with point-of-sale malware. BackOff, which is one of the most effective strands of PoS malware and is undetectable by most anti-virus software, saw […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
CDC narrowing down germs responsible for meningitis infections
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption: CDC Researchers at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are narrowing the number of infectious culprits that could be responsible for a growing number of deaths in a meningitis outbreak tied to tainted steroidal pain injections. Homepage position: 10 read more…
Experts say West Nile infections set for record this year in U.S.
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: cbrne_detection The U.S. is on track to experience the worst year for West Nile virus infections in over a dozen years, with more intense and widespread infections occurring in southern states, said federal disease experts on Aug. 22. The only states not reporting cases of…
Oxford University hit hard by Mac Flashback infections
In a small window into the chaos wrought by the Mac Flashback Trojan, the University of Oxford Computing Services team has described it as the worst malware outbreak it has had to contend with since … View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
New report says Flashback malware infections remain elevated
Update: 2:05 PM P.T. New concerns emerged Friday about the spread of a malware epidemic that targets users of Apple’s Mac OS X. Last week, Symantec said the number of infections had dropped to 140,000. Another security researcher, Kaspersky Labs, also reported a sharp decline in the number of infected…
Flashback malware infections drop to 30,000 Macs
The Flashback threat for OS X has been one of the biggest malware attacks on the platform to date, with an estimated 1 percent, or around 600,000 Mac systems, being affected at the peak of the malware’s activity on April 9, 2012. Further analysis of the threat by security firm…
Kaspersky Confirms Widespread Mac Infections Via Flashback Trojan
Security firm Kaspersky Lab today weighed in on the Flashback Trojan controversy, confirming that the flaw likely infected more than half a million Macs. In a blog post, Kaspersky Lab expert Igor Soumenkov said the firm analyzed the latest variant of the botnet – dubbed Flashfake – to try and…
Vexira Antivirus is Selected to Protect School District from Hostile Malware, Spyware and Virus Infections
MEDINA, Ohio, April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Central Command Inc., an award winning provider of malware, spyware and virus protection solutions, announced today that Skidmore-Tynan Independent School District in Texas has selected Vexira Antivirus to protect its workstations, laptops and servers after conducting an extensive test and review. Skidmore-Tynan Independent School…
Beware Of Valentine’s Day Infections, Warns PandaLabs
Bracknell, February 8th, 2012 Malware that uses events like Valentine’s Day, Christmas or Halloween as a lure to trick users and infect computers is now a well-established feature of the IT security calendar. Once again, this year it will be no surprise to see numerous emails in circulation with links…
Android malware infections skyrocket, says Juniper
Juniper Networks has reported skyrocketing rates of Android malware infections on the networks of its mobile customers, with detected malware more than quadrupling in just the last six weeks. That’s on top of dramatic increases in the previous two years. The report will put more pressure on Google to tighten…