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Security Week In Review, May 21-25

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 29, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Cybercrime was thwarted a bit during the last full week of May, with arrests that ranged from an alleged high profile cybercriminal to a small time hacker. And researchers possibly found a way to combat a major SSL spoof that plagued several CAs last...
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FortiGuard Labs: Information Sharing Helps Nab Threats

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 25, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Safe enough to say, the recently introduced Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, also known as CISPA--now making its way through the U.S. Senate--has generated enough controversy to place itself squarely into the proverbial hornet’s nes...
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Back from EICAR 2012

by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  May 25, 2012  |  Category: Security Research
Was it for Lisbon's unexpected rainy weather or was this year's EICAR conference really disappointing? I had very much enjoyed it two years ago, with excellent technical talks, but this year seemed different. Our talk - on crawling Android marketpla...
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Is Teenage Hacking On The Rise?

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 23, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Since the dawn of the personal computer, the words “teenage” and “hacker” have often been inextricably linked. And classic films such as "Hackers," "Sneakers" and "Wargames," –not to mention one of the greatest hackers in pop culture Ed from the an...
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Security Week In Review, May 14-18

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 21, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Denial of service attacks seemed to define last week, although surprisingly, not all of them appeared to be sourced to a certain global hacker collective. Meanwhile, tech giants Apple and Google made the security landscape a bit safer with an arr...
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Partnerships Vital In Cybercrime Crackdowns

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 17, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
For most organizations, regardless of industry, forming strategic partnerships are critical in achieving objectives. In the case of security organizations, partnerships are vital for better sharing and disseminating threat information, disrupting ma...
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Security Week In Review, May 7-11

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 14, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Updates, upgrades and patches, oh my. The week of May 7-11 was indeed a week of major patches from some of the biggest players. The good news is, many of the most popular OSes, Web browsers and applications are now a tad more secure. Here is a look a...
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DroidKungFu is getting smarter (hopefully, so am I)

by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  May 11, 2012  |  Category: Security Research
Since the beginning, the malicious Android DroidKungFu family has always been showing technologically advanced features (see one of our previous posts on DroidKungFu). The recent versions of the malware (version F and G) follow the same trend as they...
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Securing Your Virtual Environment: A Lowdown

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 10, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
In recent weeks, virtualization giant VMware has been scrambling to release security patches for an ESX server hypervisor source code leak that was published in April and allegedly perpetrated by a hacker from the global collective Anonymous. The rec...
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Microsoft, Adobe Issue One-Two Punch With May Security Updates

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 09, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Both Microsoft and Adobe delivered their one-two punch that aimed at plugging security holes and halting active exploits dead in their tracks for the month of May. And while the Microsoft and Adobe both addressed critical flaws affecting a wide swat...
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Security Week In Review, April 30-May 5

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 08, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Vulnerabilities and more vulnerabilities plagued the security landscape the week of April 30-May 5. Adobe patched a major Flash flaw, while security experts warned of gaping holes in PHP. Meanwhile, it appears that Intel is going to do something with...
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Okay, You've Got Malware--Now What?

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 02, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
You ran all the scans, conducted all the tests and yep…you've got malware Last month, we detailed steps you could take in those critical and panic-filled moments when you realized that you might have clicked on a malicious link or opened an infected...
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The Cybersecurity Bill Alphabet Soup: A Guide

by RSS Stefanie Hoffman  |  May 01, 2012  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
No doubt, the recent groundswell of legislation around cybercrime and cyber security has served to raise public awareness and could potentially spur security sales as the issue remains on the forefront of political and social debate. But with the ba...
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