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

Outdated Operating System? This BlackHole Exploit Kit has you in its sights

October 31, 2011 – 11:50 am

By Mike Johnson Several weeks back, I was presented with a group of snapshots from an active BlackHole Exploit Kit 1.2 Control Panel. As with other toolkits I’ve seen in the wild, this one has all the makings of some real bad medicine. The authors have yet again gone to the trouble of making this toolkit incredibly easy [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, rootkit, Search engines, Trojans, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

HTC acknowledges security flaw, plans update to fix

October 5, 2011 – 1:10 pm

By Armando Orozco A couple of days ago researchers for Android Police wrote about a security vulnerability in several HTC phones. The vulnerability lies with logging tools installed by HTC. These logging tools collect personal data like user accounts, email addresses, GPS info and SMS data. Having these tools logging users data is one thing [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Android, Mobile security | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)
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