U.S. retailers face pressure to raise cybersecurity spending: Target Corp’s decision to speed up a $100 million program to adopt the use of chip-enabled smart cards is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to what retailers need to do to defend themselves against future cyber attacks, according to security experts and IT […]

Adobe issues Emergency Flash Player update to patch critical zero-day threat: Adobe is recommending that users update their Flash Players immediately. The company has published an emergency security bulletin today, that addresses vulnerabilities the Flash Player and released a patch to fix a vulnerability which is currently being exploited in a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign. […]

Russian Cyberwar Force Intensifies ‘net Arms Race: On the same day the Obama Administration revealed its pick for the new head of the National Security Agency (NSA), Russian officials announced they will launch a new military unit devoted to keeping digital attacks from crippling the Russian military. The new cyberdefense unit, which is due to […]

Internet Activists Are Rallying Businesses to Protest NSA Spying: On February 11, a coalition of activist groups, businesses, and website operators will take to the Internet for an international day of protest against the National Security Agency’s methods of surveillance. More than 3,000 participants, including companies like Reddit, Mozilla, and BoingBoing, have signed up to urge their […]

Malformed FileZilla FTP client with login stealer: Malware installer GUI is almost identical to the official version. The only slight difference is version of NullSoft installer where malware uses 2.46.3-Unicode and the official installer uses v2.45-Unicode. All other elements like texts, buttons, icons and images are the same. The installed malware FTP client looks like […]

Obama Stays Silent on Reform of NSA’s Crypto Subversion: President Barack Obama in his State of the Union on Tuesday failed to address an issue that affects everyone on the internet — the NSA’s subversion of cryptographic standards and technologies. Privacy advocates and business interests were crossing their fingers that Obama would announce he was […]

NSA spying through Angry Birds, Google Maps, leaked documents reportedly reveal: The NSA and its British counterpart are tapping popular smartphone apps such as Angry Birds to peek into the tremendous amounts of very personal data those bits of software collect — including age, location, sex and even sexual preferences, according to new reports from […]

What You Can Learn From Snapchats Security Breach: More than most social networks, Snapchat has worked to sell users on the promise of privacy. At the network’s heart are vanishing photos–images often of the racy variety that disappear seconds after opening, ostensibly leaving little or no digital footprint. The dream of anonymity and consequence-free texting, […]

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username — Cyber Security — Medium: I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I’ve been offered as much as $50,000 for it. People have tried to steal it. Password reset instructions are a regular sight in my email inbox. As of today, I no longer […]

Hackers used Xtreme RAT malware to gain access to Israeli Defense computer: Seculert, an Israel Cyber Security firm, told Reuters that hackers gained access to the Israeli Defense ministry computer by sending a malicious email containing an Xtreme RAT. Seculert CTO Aviv Raff told Reuters that earlier this month hackers took control of around 15 […]