Now, even virtual currency is no longer safe from malware. A computer security firm warned malicious links are now spreading over micro-blogging site Twitter, leading to malware that can mine for Bitcoins, a virtual currency used in peer-to-peer sharing. In a blog post, Trend Micro said the spammed malicious shortened…
Symantec SSR2011 convert backup image to ESX virtual machine disaster recovery
This silent 8 minutes video (with comments) show how to create a task to automate convertion of SSR backup image to ESX Virtual machine in order to speed up disaster recovery. Article source: http://video.hackerjournals.com/?p=5490&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=symantec-ssr2011-convert-backup-image-to-esx-virtual-machine-disaster-recovery View full post on National Cyber Security » Announcements Gregory Evans | LinkedIn Interview With Gregory…
Admin hacks drug company virtual machines from McDonald’s
Logging in from a McDonald’s restaurant, a former employee of a US pharmaceutical company was able to wipe out most of the company’s computer infrastructure earlier this year. Jason Cornish, 37, formerly an IT staffer at a subsidiary of Japanese drug maker Shionogi, pleaded guilty Tuesday to computer intrusion charges…
Malware mints virtual currency using victim’s GPU
Security researchers have unearthed a piece of malware that mints a digital currency known as Bitcoins by harnessing the immense power of an infected machine’s graphical processing units. According to new research from antivirus provider Symantec, Trojan.Badminer uses GPUs to generate virtual coins through a practice known as minting. That’s…