by Joseph Forbes | Mar 20, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY, Technicals
Black Hat Europe: Trend Micro’s SCADA experiment finds 17 targeted attacks, mainly from China, US, Laos An experiment in which a Trend Micro researcher set up two instances of an Internet-based simulation of an industrial-control system (ICS) for a nonexistent...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 17, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, POLITICAL, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the slavery-is-freedom dept. In an op-ed piece over at Technology Review, Bruce Schneier says that the cyber espionage between the U.S., China, and other nations, has been rampant for the past decade. But he also worries that the media frenzy over recent attacks...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 13, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY
Wecykler is a family of worms, that shares some similarities with the Worm:Win32/Autorun family, in that it takes advantage of removable drives attached to an infected system in order to propagate to other machines. They target users’ familiarity with the...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 13, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, SECURITY
Have you ever wondered which exploit kits are the most prevalent? We have been tracking several exploit kits that we have identified these past few months and it’s interesting to see which gets the biggest chunk of the pie: 56% of the coverage is owned by only...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 12, 2013 | HACKING, Malware Reports, SECURITY
A number of HP LaserJet printers can be accessed through the network and unencrypted data can be read from them without authentication. The US-CERT has issued an advisory that warns users of these printers and is calling on them to update the printer’s firmware...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
F-Secure’s latest Mobile Threat Report for the last three months of 2012 names Android as the home of 96% of the new “mobile threat families”. Of 100 new threat families detected in that quarter, 96 of them were based on Android, up from the previous...
