Monthly Archives: February 2012

Theft of unencrypted laptop just one of thousands of incidents in recent years, costing millions of dollars, the agency’s inspector general tells Congress.

Research presented before RSA reveals hacktivist collective’s specific strategies, tools, and tactics

Interpol announced yesterday that they had taken part in an international operation that led to the arrests of 25 alleged members of the Anonymous hacker collective. The not-arrested members of Anonymous reportedly lashed back with a stinging DDoS attack on Interpol’s website. read more

Recently I blogged about some exploit packs. In that post I showed a table that had 10 common malware kits. I listed the vulnerabilities used, referenced by their Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) names. There were 45 vulnerabilities in the table. From the data, this idea was taken up by Mila Parkour via her Contagio [...]

Yesterday in Scott Charney’s RSA 2012 keynote , he made reference to a statistic stating that 92.5 percent of respondents believe cybercrime laws need updating. This was one of the many findings of the Trust in Computing research recently conducted…(read more)

A recently discovered hole in Apple’s iOS allows third-party developers access to users’ iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch photos by exploiting the device’s location data, according to a report from the New York Times’ Nick Bilton on the Bits blog yesterday. read more

You wouldn’t know it from reading the news, but business identity theft is becoming an increasingly large concern for small business owners, according to a report filed by NPR’s Yuki Noguchi today on Morning Edition. read more

New leadership makes promises, but some pundits remain skeptical

When there are celebrity stories such as the death of Whitney Houston in the press, we expect to see BlackHat SEO attacks and other cybercriminal campaigns using these themes to distribute malware. However, a recent targeted attack against Tibetan activists caught our attention. The lure in this case was the story of Jeremy Lin, the [...]

Preview of Verizon Business’ data breach cases shows malware and hacking the top breach methods