Iran’s claim that its domestic Internet system suffered a slowdown from a heavy cyber attack is possible, but knowing for …
Cyber criminals plan attack on major U.S. banks
A cyber gang thought to be based in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is recruiting dozens of people to participate …
Router flaw allowed DNS attack on 4.5 million DSL gateways
Details have emerged of an extraordinary attack in which millions of DSL broadband routers in Brazil were hit by a …
‘Malnets’ behind two thirds of all cyber attacks
A growing army of malware delivery networks, known as malnets, account for two thirds of all cyber attacks, and security …
HP takes aim at Cisco, Juniper with SDN market invasion
HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking portfolio that spans infrastructure, control plane operations and applications in an effort to lead the emerging …
Microsoft wins permanent settlement against Nitol botnet
Microsoft has won a battle to permanently disrupt a haven for the Nitol botnet that it discovered within an Internet domain …
Expert fingers DDoS toolkit used in bank cyber attacks
Cyber attackers who disrupted the websites of U.S. banks over the last two weeks used a highly sophisticated toolkit — …
Criminals hack Adobe certificate server
Criminals broke into an Adobe server and provided two pieces of malware with a digital certificate that attest to them …
Twitter users sent malicious links via direct messages
Cyber criminals are using compromised Twitter accounts to distribute messages disguised as coming from friends who suggest recipients click on …
Iran denies U.S. bank cyber attack
Iran is being accused of launching cyber attacks against U.S.-based banks that include Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, …
Microsoft flaunts new Exchange version
Microsoft is set to demonstrate the reasons it believes enterprises need to adopt the new version of its Exchange email …
Cybercriminals turn focus to bank employees
Bank employees, not customers, are now the main target of financial cyber attacks, according to the FBI. In a warning …
Microsoft confirms hackers exploiting critical IE bug, promises patch
Microsoft on Monday issued a security advisory that confirmed in-the-wild attacks are exploiting an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer. The …
Over half of Android devices have unpatched vulnerabilities
Over half of Android devices are vulnerable to known security flaws that can be exploited by malicious applications to gain …
‘Shamoon’ cyberweapon the work of amateurs, Kaspersky says
The ‘Shamoon’ malware that nixed the hard drives of 30,000 Saudi oil industry PCs in August was more of a …
‘Shamoon’ attack on Saudi oil industry was inside job, reports say
The destructive ‘Shamoon’ malware attacks that hit the Saudi Arabian Aramco oil company last month could have been aided by …
Tool allows Mac OS X hackers to extract keychain data
A new tool allows Mac OS X attackers with root OS access to easily steal the keychain password data of …
Mobile security increasingly at risk
Security threats to your mobile device such as malware, fraudulent lures such as SMS spoofing, and toll fraud, are all becoming favourites of …
Symantec: Windows 8 ‘doesn’t move the needle’ on security
Symantec said Windows 8 “doesn’t move the needle much” on security as it rolled out new versions of its antivirus …
International law on cyber attacks examined in new manual
A cyber security think tank has published a manual studying how international law applies to conflicts in cyberspace, where the …