Sep 8, 2014 | Buying Security Products, Computer Security Solutions, Malware and Exploits
The July and August roundup of Mac security products marks the first time (that we can remember) when respected Antivirus comparison laboratory AV-Comparatives has tested macinoths products. Their linking rules prevent us from linking directly to the results, but here...
Aug 28, 2014 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
This morning, the Wall Street Journal reported on the front page that J.P. Morgan was hacked and suffered a cyberheist called “a significant breach of corporate computer security”. Bloomberg reported that the FBI, the US Secret Service, and even the NSA...
Jul 14, 2014 | Malware and Exploits
According to ZDNet – a new strain of the infamous Zeus malware has been discovered using Windows PIF files and being spread via email campaigns. Websense has identified this Zeus strain as an information stealing trojan. Their ThreatSeeker Intelligence Cloud has...
Jul 12, 2014 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
According to an article in PCWorld.com – financial and business information has been stolen from multiple shipping + logistics firms using a complex malware embedded into scanners shipped to the supply-chains handlers. The scanners are typically used to track...
Jun 25, 2014 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
New is emerging that in a targets attack by hackers, the state of Montana’s Department of health has been breached – meaning that up to 1.3 million people’s personal data has been compromised as the servers at the Department of Public Health and...
Apr 9, 2014 | General Security, Malware and Exploits
The Heartbleed security flaw (also known as CVE-2014-0160) is a very serious flaw in the openSSL library, which is library used to secure communications between computers including servers around the world. The library is used for different reasons – but some...
