Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
Following an international takedown of Cryptolocker, new ransomware identified by Microsoft as Critroni.A has been gaining momentum since making a June appearance in underground marketplaces, according to a security researcher going by the name Kafeine.
The malware – which is marketed as CTB-Locker (Curve-Tor-Bitcoin Locker) and costs $3,000 per month – ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2014
The U.S. Secret Service is advising the hospitality industry to inspect computers made available to guests in hotel business centers, warning that crooks have been compromising hotel business center PCs with keystroke-logging malware in a bid to steal personal and financial data from guests.
A DHS/Secret Service advisory dated July 10, 2014. In a non-public ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2014
Apple users accessing Gmail on mobile devices could be at risk of having their data intercepted, a mobile security company said Thursday.
The reason is Google has not yet implemented a security technology that would prevent attackers from viewing and modifying encrypted communications exchanged with the Web giant, wrote Avi Bashan, ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
A serious attack involving a widely used Web communication format is exposing millions of end users' authentication credentials on sites including eBay, Tumblr, and Instagram, a well-respected security researcher said Tuesday.
The exploit—which stems from the ease of embedding malicious commands into Adobe Flash files before they're executed—has been largely mitigated ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2014
Windows XP hold-outs pay attention. If you run the Java runtime on XP, it looks as if the current version is about as good as it gets. The next version, 7u65 and 8u11, due to ship in the middle of July, will not support or run on XP.
Oracle hasn’t announced ...
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