Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property was a …
New Citadel malware variant targets Payza online payment platform
A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local …
Researchers find more versions of digitally signed Mac OS X spyware
Security researchers have identified multiple samples of the recently discovered “KitM” spyware for Mac OS X, including one dating back …
Rapid-growing mobile payments market is driving a financial fraud marketplace
The global mobile payments market is predicted to exceed US$1.3 trillion in the coming years, presenting opportunities for cyber-crime gangs …
Target located
In 1971, John Draper used a whistle, found in a cereal box, to reproduce a 2,600 Hz tone able to …
StarLink named Guidance Software’s master distributor
StarLink on Tuesday announced that it had been signed as master distributor for Guidance Software in the Middle East. The …
Setting up shop
The success of online B2B market place Tejari.com and the rising demand for e-commerce in the Middle East meant the …
Dutch bill seeks to give law enforcement hacking powers
The Dutch government on Thursday presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into …
Hackers increasingly target shared Web hosting servers for phishing
Cyber criminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large …
Facebook used as billboard for malware
A cybercriminal has taken to selling his malware and related services on Facebook, boldly choosing a public forum to reach …
StrikeForce lawsuit dampens Microsoft cloud security plans
A lawsuit could put a crimp in Microsoft’s reported plans to implement two-factor authentication for users of its consumer cloud …
Bitcoin exchange hit with DDoS attack
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an …
Selling to SMBs
Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) represent an important element in the business ecosystem of the Middle East. Industry analysts predict …
Multiven accuses Cisco of data theft
Cisco has been accused of stealing thousands of proprietary and copyrighted data files from its third-party services nemesis, Multiven, which has filed …
US comes up short on security experts
According to a pair of recently released reports, demand for information security experts in the United States is outstripping the …
Secure everything, everywhere ..and that includes performance and productivity
Dell SonicWALL’s Head of Product Marketing, Florian Malecki, talks devices, data, and security. We love our devices. IDC is predicting …
US students take on Chinese malware code
Wesley McGrew, a research associate at Mississippi State University, may be among the few people thrilled with the latest grim …
Chinese authorities exploit Office for Mac hole
Chinese authorities may be exploiting a security hole in Microsoft Office for Mac to target the Uyghur people, an ethnic …
EU issues cloud warning
The growth in cloud computing is a double-edged sword, Europe’s top cyber security agency warned on Thursday. The European Network …
Malnets make the jump to mobile
Today’s mobile spam and phishing attacks will increasingly delivered by mobile malware networks, despite mobile device operating systems being more …