We just found 30 servers that can’t be accounted for. Thirty Internet-facing servers with no malware protection and patchy histories. I need to take a deep breath and figure out just how bad this is and what we can do to stop this sort of thing from happening again.
Trend Micro instrumental in Scan4You conviction
Trend Micro has announced details of its close cooperation with the FBI to identify, arrest and bring to trial the individuals linked to the infamous Counter Antivirus (CAV) service Scan4You.0 3652ESET launches ESET NOD32 version 7
The new products provide security without compromising system performance.
Symantec seizes part of massive peer-to-peer botnet ZeroAccess
The cyber-criminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled.
Quarterly report outlines Android vulnerabilities as biggest security concern
Android vulnerabilities make for some of the biggest security concerns of the moment, according to Trend Micro’s Q2 2013 Security Roundup Report.
Malware fighter FireEye files for $175M IPO
FireEye could soon be known on the stock market as FEYE if its plans to go public in a $175 million bid made official with the SEC today come to fruition.
Malware-as-a-service blossoms in Russia, vendor research finds
Highly organised Russian groups have transformed mobile hacking into an industrial scale business, a kind of “malware-as-a-service,” complete with marketing affiliates, distributors and customer support.
Google Play store inundated with scam apps, Symantec says
A steady stream of questionable applications is flowing daily into Google’s Play store for Android devices, according to security vendor Symantec.
Microsoft: Almost 90 percent of Citadel botnets in the world disrupted in June
Malware removed from forty percent of computers in those botnets, according to the vendor.
New Trojan could create headaches for banks, customers
With the major developers of banking malware laying low, a new crook on the block has emerged gunning to be top dog in the market.
Compromised websites at hosting companies more than doubling daily from a year ago, report finds
Cyber-criminals are compromising websites at hosting companies at an ever-furious rate.