Approximately 160,000 computers a day in Vietnam got slammed with malware last year, with most PCs being infected at an alarming rate by the Conficker virus, according to the Vietnam Informatics Department. According to Vietnamese news source VietNamNet, the Ministry of Public Security said Vietnam now ranks among the 10 nations that have the highest [...]
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IT company EMC today announced its acquisition of NetWitness, a security analysis corporation based in Reston, Va. NetWitness will become part of RSA, a security division of EMC. Combining the two enterprises will give security teams a deeper insight into the security outline of their organizations. NetWitness provides security teams the resources they need to [...]
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Those who purchased passes to Maine State Parks online last year may have had their credit card information fall into the wrong hands, according to WCSH5.com. Maryland-based InfoSpherix, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Active Network in charge of the online state park pass purchases, suffered a cyber attack that may have exposed cards used in transactions from [...]
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Hackers yesterday broke into the European Commission’s websites, just hours from a sensitive summit of EU leaders debating the situation in Libya, the euro debt crisis and nuclear safety, officials said. “All staff were warned this morning” that “remote access to emails was no longer operational,” a spokesman for the commission told AFP. Pages from [...]
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Snobbish protestations to the contrary, Stuxnet is a big deal in the cyber world. The little (computer) worm that targeted Iran’s nuclear program and served as a middle-of-the-night, cold-sweat wake-up call for cybersecurity professionals the world over was not merely the opening shot in a cyber war, a recent Vanity Fair article argues. It was [...]
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A new report by the Security Incidents Organization has revealed that manufacturing and infrastructure security worldwide continues to be vulnerable to malware and cyber attack. John Cusimano, executive director of SIO, said the “Report on Cyber Security Incidents and Trends Affecting Industrial Control Systems Resulting from Malware Infections” details the continuing web hazards and how [...]
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Forty websites belonging to the South Korean government, agencies and businesses came under attack yesterday, including those of the presidential Blue House, the U.S. forces, the military Joint Chiefs of Staff, the ministries of foreign affairs, defense and unification, the intelligence agency, parliament and the tax office, AFP reported. Cybersecurity company AhnLab confirmed the websites [...]
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Hackers are selling a $25 DIY toolkit to anyone interested in creating and distributing malicious Facebook applications, according to Websense Security Labs. The toolkit, called Tinie’s Facebook Viral Application, provides cyber crooks a way to direct Internet users towards survey scams, spread malware, or act as a tool in click-fraud scams, The Register said. “You [...]
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New scams conducted via Facebook and Twitter have been wreaking havoc on users in the last several days, PandaLabs reported. The first one, Asprox.N, has been identified as a Trojan sent via email informing users their Facebook account is being used to distribute spam. For that reason, the user’s login credentials have been changed. The [...]
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