by Joseph Forbes | Mar 20, 2013 | HACKING, KnowledgeBase (KB), SECURITY, Technical Support
Apple Security: “Safe” Files Posted by Sean @ 14:22 GMT Things that Apple’s OS X 10.8.3 update patched — which may allow for arbitrary code execution — that are also on “safe” file type list used by Mac browsers: ImageIO (picture);...
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...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 13, 2013 | HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the subtext:-or-else dept. For the first time, the United States has mentioned the People’s Republic of China in relation to cyber crime, officially acknowledging what has been long suspected by private security experts and the U.S. business community. The...
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...