Monthly Archives: November 2011

Everyone has a role in protecting a corporate infrastructure (Part 1)

November 30, 2011 – 11:21 am

By Jacques Erasmus This time of year, those of us in information security become wary of crafty criminals leveraging the winter holidays to prey on our employees’ lack of awareness online in a number of ways. All it takes is for one Trojan to infect a single PC in a company to put an entire [...]

By jerasmus11 | Posted in Enterprises, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, spam, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Reflections on mobile security

November 21, 2011 – 10:00 am

By Armando Orozco Be wary the next time you enter your passcode into your iPhone on the bus – someone could be shoulder surfing. In fact, a team of researchers from the University of North Carolina has developed a system to watch you pecking out characters on your phone, analyse the video, and produce a [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Threat Research, Mobile security, Keyloggers, social engineering, malware, Android | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

‘Tis the season for mobile malware

November 18, 2011 – 11:25 am

By Armando Orozco You’ve heard of the “perfect storm”? Well, there may be one brewing in Android-land. We just wrapped up a study that revealed holiday shopping is about to go mobile—in a big way. Turns out, over two times more shoppers plan to buy gifts on their mobile device this year. Over two times [...]

By Armando Orozco | Posted in Android, Mobile security, Online shopping threats, social engineering | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Top 7 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2012

November 17, 2011 – 3:00 am

By Mel Morris From Stuxnet to Sony, a number of cyberattacks emerged in 2011 that experts have predicted for quite some time. I predict 2012 will be even more pivotal, thrusting cybersecurity into the spotlight. These are my top seven forecasts for the year ahead: 1) Targeted, zero-day attacks will be the norm. Looking back [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Deep Knowledge, Internet security industry, Mobile security, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

In space, no one can hear you hack

November 14, 2011 – 1:09 pm

By the Webroot Threat Team Two of NASA’s satellites were hacked during 2007 and 2008, according to a draft report to be officially released later this month. According to the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, the ‘birds’, which focused on Earth observation for tasks such as climate monitoring, were reportedly pwned by the [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Targets, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , | Comments (3)

This blackhole exploit kit gives you Windows Media Player and a whole lot more

November 11, 2011 – 10:11 am

By Mike Johnson As a follow-up to the Blackhole Exploit posting, I thought I would share one aspect of my job that I truely enjoy: Discovery. While investigating some active urls being served up via a blackhole kit, I noticed something quite odd, as I would end up on sites that had malicious code injected into their webpages. Once [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Destructive behavior, Exploits, Internet Explorer, malware, Threat Research, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Will you take Facebook’s candy?

November 9, 2011 – 2:50 pm

By the Webroot Threat Team It’s a creepy treat, with a serious underlying message. The latest viral website uses a horror movie format to show you just how much the average Facebook application can find out about you. TakeThisLollipop, which has already received 1.7 million ‘Likes’ on Facebook, uses the social network’s application authentication scheme [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in social engineering, Targets, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | Comments (6)

I don’t think it means what you think it means…

November 4, 2011 – 3:07 pm

Websites Hosting Android Trojans   By Armando Orozco and  Nathan Collier Rogue Android apps are making their way into alternative markets. Yes, we’ve seen some malicious apps trickle through and they can be elusive. But we’re now seeing markets that are only hosting malware. These rogues are of the premium rate SMS variety and request [...]

By Armando Orozco | Posted in Android, Mobile security, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)
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