News Archive
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Ruckus Wireless developing secure open WiFi hotspot software
By NewsEditor Posted on May 17,13Most readers will be aware of the security risk they run when using an open – aka public access – WiFi hotspot, since their IP traffic can be sniffed, subjected to a man-in-the-middle attack, and … Continue reading
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Friday Forum: Big Data: manage the chaos and you will reap the benefits
By NewsEditor Posted on May 17,13By Marc Vael, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, CISSP, president of the Belgian Chapter of ISACA, the not-for-profit IT security association, explains how IT security professionals can harness the power of Big Data. Whilst Big … Continue reading
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Trend Micro: Failed OpUSA attacks show how hackers operate
By NewsEditor Posted on May 17,13A security analyst with Trend Micro claims that the failed OpUSA attacks by hackers seen earlier this month may have been something of a damp squib, but they do, nonetheless, show how hackers operate. According … Continue reading
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Symantec spots surge in pump and dump stock spam
By NewsEditor Posted on May 17,13The age-old problem known as `pump and dump stock spam’ is alive and kicking, according to a Symantec researcher. In his latest security posting, Anand Muralidharan, a security response engineer with Symantec’s Chennai, India-based labs, … Continue reading
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Removing IT systems from the scope of PCI DSS compliance
By Editor Posted on May 16,13One of the most interesting developments in the field of data security over the last few years has been the adoption of data obfuscation – usually by tokenising the information – instead of full-blown encryption. … Continue reading
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PushDo revitalised: 1.1 million infections in two months says Damballa
By Editor Posted on May 16,13PushDo – one of the longest-running malware families – has apparently risen from the dead with a new feature, domain fluxing, to avoid detection. PushDo has been around for around five or six years now, … Continue reading
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Android malware evolves into a remote controlled bot swarm
By Editor Posted on May 16,13Two researchers with Webroot claim to have spotted what the call a versatile and remote-controlled piece of malware in the wild. Known as Android.MouaBot, the app malware is – as the name suggests – a … Continue reading
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Barracuda Labs reports major bogus D&B spamming campaign under way
By Editor Posted on May 16,13Reports are coming in of a major new spamming campaign from cybercriminals, posing as an alert from the popular Dun & Bradstreet business and credit reports service. This is an insidious step, ITSP notes, as … Continue reading
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