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For all of their benefits when it comes to enabling consumer communication, peer-to-peer networks have been notorious hideouts for pirated content and other things that wish to elude detection. They’re providing cover now for something else: malware.
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A security expert has promised to reveal security flaws in thousands of surveillance cameras. He will not, he says, disclose the vulnerabilities to the vendors before his presentation at Black Hat, Las Vegas, starting 31 July.
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What keeps retired US Navy Admiral Mike Mullen up at night? According to the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the government’s debt, the state of the US primary/secondary education system, a lack of bipartisan cooperation, and the issue of cybersecurity.
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When it comes to taking anti-spam measures, it turns out that malicious or junk mail sent from web hosts is more than three times as likely to make it past a filter than other kinds of spam. An independent evaluation of top products found that while most have good overall catch rates, web hosting is a bit of a magic bullet at the moment.
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It turns out that Canada may soon be famous for more than the well-known maple leafs, Molson and hockey: It now has the third largest volume of hosted advanced malware command-and-control servers, according to a new study. Foreign cybercriminals are setting up virtual bases in Canada to command corporate espionage attacks.