Though U.S. officials have consistently blamed Iran for the ongoing stream of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against major …
Yahoo email patch ineffective, security researchers say
Security researchers say a patch released by Yahoo earlier this week for a serious email vulnerability did not fix the …
EMC: Big Data will be key in 2013
Organisations that adopt Big Data in 2013 will create value and competitive differentiation, while those which do not will stagnate. …
Chinese man guilty of pirated software sales worth $100mn
A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defence, space and other …
Hacker finds way to run desktop applications on Windows RT
A hacker claims to have found a method of bypassing the code integrity mechanism in Windows RT, therefore allowing for …
Cisco working to fix broken patch for VoIP phones
Cisco Systems plans to release a new patch for a vulnerability in its VoIP phones after the first patch did …
Oracle to stop patching Java 6 in Feb
Java 6 will be retired from security support in less than two months, and users and businesses should prepare now …
Adobe to patch 2-year-old Shockwave vulnerability in Feb
Adobe plans in February to close a dangerous hole in its Shockwave application that causes the application to be downgraded …
Samsung vows to fix vulnerability in Android devices
Samsung said Wednesday it is working on an update for a software flaw that could allow attackers to siphon personal …
Trend Micro updates security app to beat off Samsung attacks
Trend Micro has updated its mobile security software to detect potential attacks on several Samsung Electronics devices that have a …
2013 – The year mobile malware rears its ugly head
If you’re a user of Google’s mobile operating system Android and concerned about your smartphone’s security, expect to worry more …
Egyptian hacker releases Yahoo vulnerabilities
A hacker in Egypt has released vague details of three vulnerabilities he claims to have found within Yahoo’s website, the …
Android botnet abuses people’s phones for SMS spam
In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially …
Apple taps up former Microsoft hacker to work on Mac OS X
Apple has quietly hired Kristin Paget, a former Microsoft security expert who worked as a hacker for the company to …
91% of targeted attacks from ‘spearphishing’ emails, says Trend Micro
After gathering analysis of targeted attack data collected between February and September this year, Trend Micro found that 91 percent …
New ‘Dockster’ malware discovered on Dalai Lama site
A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai …
Tumblr falls victim to malicious trolls
Popular online social networking site Tumblr was ravaged on Monday by an Internet worm that spewed racist and inflammatory messages …
A mobile future
It has been an eventful year in the solutions world as enterprises witnessed the rise of managed services, mobility and …
Security without compromising performance
IT managers in corporate and mid-size businesses have to balance both network performance and network security concerns. While security requirements …
Cyber criminals increasingly abusing .eu domains
Cyber criminals are increasingly using .eu domain names in their attack campaigns, according to data from multiple security companies. “Numerous …