Several high-profile security breaches around the world grabbed the attention of the Middle East IT industry, but it has taken …
Some Android apps have serious SSL vulnerabilities, researchers say
A team of researchers from two German universities has released a study asserting that many of the most popular free …
Infected computers rented as proxy servers on the black market
Cyber criminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels …
On the move, on the money
Mobility has changed the whole landscape of the enterprise. People now want to be able to work from anywhere, at …
Iran’s cyber attack claims lack details, experts say
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 …