Apparently not all Mac users got the memo about Flashback, the malware that recently infected more than 600,000 computers running OS X. According to security firm Symantec, roughly 140,000 Mac computers were still infected as of April 16. “The statistics from our sinkhole are showing declining numbers on a daily…
Flashback Malware Still Infects 140,000 Macs, Not Dead Yet
Tools to remove the Flashback malware variant that has been discovered on Mac computers this month have been effective, but the Flashback is not quite dead yet, according to a recent report. The malware, which originally infected upwards of 600,000 computers, has been eliminated from the majority of them. There…
BlackBerry still trumps Android for security, analysis finds
RIM’s BlackBerry remains the clear leader in mobile security with market share leader Android lagging badly, a ‘strengths and weakness’ analysis of the four big platforms has concluded. Enterprise Readiness of Consumer Mobile Platforms rated each platform on the basis of a number of criteria, including general device security, app…
Carberp Trojan still alive and well, security company finds
The Carberp bank login Trojan is very much alive and in operation despite last week’s arrests in Russia of an eight-man gang accused of being core users of the malware’s botnet, security company Kaspersky Lab has said. The company has already detected criminals selling the Trojan on malware forums and…
New variant shows Duqu attackers still in operation
Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company’s online community initiative around secure content management technologies….
Microsoft Security Essentials still most popular US antivirus program
Microsoft’s Security Essentials (MSE) is the US’s most popular antivirus program in a stubbornly fragmented market, new figures from OPSWAT have found. Using figures collected during 2011 from the company’s AppRemover utility run on 170,000 PCs, MSE was the most popular antivirus program in the US with a near 15…
Vikileaks Twitter campaign falls over, but Vic Toews still standing
While the fury over Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ really, really poor choice of words continues to snowball, Vikileaks Twitter campaign was shut down last night. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
DNSChanger Trojan Still Needs to be Cleaned from Fortune 500 and US Government Systems (February 3 & 6, 2012)
Half of Fortune 500 companies and nearly half of all US federal government agencies still have the DNSChanger Trojan on their networks, according to researchers……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
Exclusive: Hacked companies still not telling investors (Reuters)
Reuters – At least a half-dozen major U.S. companies whose computers have been infiltrated by cyber criminals or international spies have not admitted to the incidents despite new guidance from securities regulators urging such disclosures. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on National Cyber Security
Barclays: 97 percent of data breaches still due to SQL injection
SQL injection attacks have been around for more than ten years, and security professionals are more than capable of protecting against them; yet 97 percent of data breaches worldwide are still due to an SQL injection somewhere along the line, according to Neira Jones, head of payment security for Barclaycard….