Mobile malware is cresting as it never has in the past, with new bugs being developed at breakneck speed. One of these, a new version of the Pincer trojan for Android that can intercept inbound text messages and forward them on, can compromise two-factor authentication protections.
24 May 2013
Zeus and its ZBOT brethren are coming back down off banking-Trojan Olympus to take another whack at the financial services game. The info-stealing malware is reemerging with a vengeance, with increased activity and a few upgrades to the previous versions.
24 May 2013
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing a possible data breach thanks to the software it has been relying on to help process background checks for potential employees.
24 May 2013
In the wake of Operation Hangover, a large cyber-espionage campaign run from India, security researchers have identified yet more strains of the culprit, the Kumar in the Mac (KitM) spyware for Mac OS X. And these don’t appear to have a political motivation.
24 May 2013
While Google is still attempting to head off antitrust problems in Europe, there are new reports that the FTC in the US is now considering a new investigation into how Google handles its advertising sales.
24 May 2013
The latest quarterly report from PandaLabs concludes on a surprisingly optimistic note given the continuous revelations of high profile hacks and the evolution of nation-state cyber warfare this year.
24 May 2013
Journalists who used Google Search to locate scores of unsecured social security numbers associated with the US Lifeline program have been threatened by lawyers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
24 May 2013
Researchers continue to find that the pace of mobile malware development is accelerating. A total of 22,750 new modifications of malicious programs targeting mobile devices were detected this past quarter by Kaspersky Lab, which is more than half of the total number of modifications detected in all of 2012. A full 99.9% of them target the Android platform.
23 May 2013
The FBI has arrested a New York City police detective for stealing the login details of at least 30 people (including 21 NYPD employees, 19 of them officers), across 43 email accounts and one cell phone. He did it by hiring a contract hit man, of sorts.
23 May 2013
The latest Crime Survey for England and Wales produced by the Office for National Statistics shows that theft of mobile devices is still rising: 2% of all phone owners have had a mobile phone stolen within the last twelve months.
23 May 2013