Thursday, July 25th, 2013
The ferocious nature of modern malware is wreaking havoc on some organizations, forcing security professionals to reassess current security policies and consider spending on modernizing defenses to detect attacks, according to a new survey.
The study, released this week by Enterprise Strategy Group and commissioned by Malwarebytes, surveyed 315 security professionals ...
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Friday, July 5th, 2013
I was geeking out a bit tonight thinking about a friend's situation and thought that I could probably do something useful in Splunk that might be helpful to others. Sure enough, a few minutes later and I am viewing all my active netstat connections geographically as they are established:
Once the ...
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Friday, June 7th, 2013
Recently discovered malware targeting Android smartphones exploits previously unknown vulnerabilities in the Google operating system and borrows highly advanced functionality more typical of malicious Windows applications, making it the world's most sophisticated Android Trojan, a security researcher said.
The infection, named Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a, isn't very widespread at the moment. The malware gives an ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2013
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the instant messaging service, those URLs receive an unannounced ...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Security firm Trend Micro has seen an uptick in AutoIT-based malware thanks to the fact that it’s an easy-to-learn language that allows for quick development. It enables everything from simple scripts that change text files to scripts that perform mass downloads with complex GUIs. One commonly seen nefarious AutoIT tool ...
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