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The FBI’s report entitled “Bitcoin Virtual Currency: Intelligence. Unique Features Present Distinct Challenges for Deterring Illicit Activity” that we presented last week wasn’t classified, but it was labeled as being for “official use only.” FBI representatives confirmed its authe... |
15 May 2012
10:18 GMT |
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A recent study made by TechAmerica reveals the challenges federal IT executives are confronted with on a daily bases and the figures show that internal and external data breaches are a top concern, along with the limitations posed by budgets.
The research is based on the answers provided by a number of 40 Chief Info... |
12 May 2012
04:56 GMT |
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It seems that Microsoft has already begun manufacturing the next generation of its Xbox console, in the form of the so-called Xbox 720 (aka Durango), at least according to a brand-new report that has surfaced on the web.
While Microsoft hasn't even acknowledged that it's working on a successor to the curre... |
5 May 2012
08:21 GMT |
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The SANS Technology Institute has launched a poll with the purpose of determining how common fake tech support calls are. The report tries to learn the details of these schemes by requesting the aid of individuals who have been approached by scam artists that run such operations.
Every once in a while we take a look... |
2 May 2012
07:19 GMT |
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Symantec released its Internet Security Threat Report in which it details the elements that left a mark on the cyber security landscape of 2011.
If we look at each month individually, we see that May was the busiest month of 2011. That is when scripting attacks that generated Facebook invites were first launched, ma... |
1 May 2012
10:47 GMT |
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AVG Technologies released its Community Powered Threat Report for the first quarter of 2012. One of the most interesting parts of the study reveals that social media networks have become great mediums for cybercriminals to push their pieces of malware onto mobile devices.
“We detected a big increase in the use... |
30 April 2012
10:43 GMT |
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APWG released its Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use in 2H2011. Besides the interesting trends in the phishing sector, the paper also shows that PayPal is no longer the favorite of cybercriminals, being replaced with the Chinese e-commerce site Taobao.com.
While in the first half of 2011 PayPal was s... |
28 April 2012
05:06 GMT |
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Microsoft has released its Security Intelligence Report Volume 12 (SIRv12) to detail some of the most important security-related incidents that marked the second half of 2011.
The study offers some statistical data on the highly dangerous Conficker worm. The figures showed that at its peak, the malicious element inf... |
26 April 2012
03:09 GMT |
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A study made by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that many individuals from the UK failed to ensure that all their sensitive data was properly erased from storage devices before selling them or giving them away. This allows fraudsters to commit crimes more easily.
The organization is urging co... |
25 April 2012
09:49 GMT |
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The latest report issued by data security solutions firm Imperva for the first quarter of 2012 reveals that in most of the attacks launched by hackers tools that automate the process, such as Havij and SQLmap, are being utilized.
The figures provided by the company show that 98% of Remote File Inclusion (RTF) attack... |
25 April 2012
04:51 GMT |
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SophosLabs released the quarter 1 report for 2012 that names the first twelve spam sources in the world. The list is topped by India, the country overtaking the United States, which has been the number one source of spam until now.
The efforts Internet Service Providers have put into the fight against spam have paid... |
23 April 2012
09:25 GMT |
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Trend Micro released its quarterly report for the first part of 2012 and it turns out that this year cybercriminals have focused their efforts mostly on schemes that target mobile device owners, particularly Android users.
While 2011 was considered the year of the hacktivists, 2012 may be the year of mobile malware.... |
19 April 2012
05:41 GMT |
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ThreatMetrix, a provider of integrated cybercrime prevention solutions, has analyzed the almost one billion transactions performed by US merchants, with the purpose of making a top that highlights online fraud origination in the first quarter of 2012.
After analyzing the transactions and scoring them with a fraud ri... |
18 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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A recent study ordered by LogRythm, a company that offers cyber threat defense, detection and response services, reveals that 87% of organizations from the UK would be unable to identify individuals that have fallen victims to a data breach as requested by EU regulations.
The new European Commission Data Protection ... |
18 April 2012
09:24 GMT |
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Security solutions provider GFI Software released the VIPRE Report for March 2012 to highlight the most popular cybercriminal operations and the pieces of malware they rely on to ensure success.
One of the first observations made by GFI experts is that fraudsters still leverage popular brand names to spread maliciou... |
5 April 2012
07:08 GMT |
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After quite a few rumors about the new PlayStation 4 (aka Orbis), the other next generation console, Microsoft’s Xbox 720, has also been the subject of a new batch of reports. They claim that it will be released towards the end of 2013, has a built-in Blu-ray drive and requires an always-on internet connection.... |
3 April 2012
07:41 GMT |
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A brand new report has popped up on the web, saying that Prey 2, the sci-fi shooter in development at Human Head Studios has been canceled, and that publisher Bethesda will formally announce it this week.
Prey was an impressive shooter with an unusual story that saw a Native American called Tommy face off against va... |
26 March 2012
02:31 GMT |
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The “Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report” reveals that 2011 was the year of the hacktivists. Online activism recorded a considerable increase in popularity and the figures demonstrate it. Statistically speaking, in 2011, 79% of cyberattacks were named as being opportunistic. More so, according... |
22 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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A study performed by the Ponemon Institute reveals some interesting figures regarding the costs a company has to support in case of data breaches, compared to previous years.
The numbers show that for the first time in seven years the costs of data breaches have decreased considerably.
In 2011, firms paid $5.5 mill... |
21 March 2012
05:54 GMT |
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A report made by China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team and Coordination Center reveals that a number of 8.9 million cyberattacks from abroad have targeted the country in 2011. The figures show that Japan was responsible for 22.8% of attacks, closely followed by the United States wi... |
21 March 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Since it became obvious that a fully functional Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) exploit code is available, a researcher scanned part of the Internet to determine how many computers communicate using RDP.
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky scanned around 300 million IPs, of which around 414,000 turned out to be potential... |
19 March 2012
12:03 GMT |
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Many website owners are unaware that Google Analytics and other traffic monitoring tools don’t take into consideration the “non-human” visitors. The most worrying part of this observation is that the 51% of the traffic is not seen in reports and it can be represented by hackers, bots and other spyin... |
19 March 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Security solutions provider Symantec devised a clever experiment called the Smartphone Honey Stick Project, designed to help individuals and security experts learn about what happens to lost smartphones and how much private data their finder tries to access.
A number of 50 smartphones, fitted with fake corporate an... |
12 March 2012
10:26 GMT |
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A recent study made by security company Norman shows that Scandinavian countries are the safest from the perspective of global malware rates. At the other end of the poll we find an Eastern European country.
Data supplied by Norman’s Malware Cleaner demonstrates that Finland has the lowest rate of infection in... |
9 March 2012
08:19 GMT |
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A report entitled “The Human Factor in Data Protection” commissioned by Trend Micro and performed by the Ponemon Institute revealed that most IT security practitioners in the US blamed employees for the data breaches that affected their companies.
It’s well known that the human factor is one of th... |
6 March 2012
05:15 GMT |
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A written testimony of Paul K. Martin, Inspector General at NASA, before the agency’s Subcommittee of Investigations and Oversight reveals some interesting aspects regarding the Space Agency’s cybersecurity issues. Not a week passes in which we don’t learn of another hacker that finds a flaw in one... |
1 March 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Kaspersky released a report regarding the distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks that targeted companies in the second half of 2011 and they provided some interesting figures obtained by their botnet monitoring systems.
The numbers reveal that the longest attack recorded in the second half of the past yea... |
29 February 2012
04:40 GMT |
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Network security company Corero has made available the results of its latest study that compares the numbers and the effects of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks on United States and United Kingdom firms. The DDOS Defense and Intrusion Prevention System provider’s report shows that 31% of the organi... |
26 February 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Security solutions provider McAfee released its Fourth Quarter 2011 report to reveal the details of the threat landscape that targeted computing devices in the last months of the year that passed.
The figures show that there were more than 75 million unique malware samples, this being the number that the company es... |
23 February 2012
03:20 GMT |
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Security researchers from University of Cambridge performed a study to find out how vulnerable 4-digit banking PINs are to “guessing attacks” and the results revealed that a significant percentage of individuals use their own birth dates to form the code that should protect their financial assets.
While ... |
22 February 2012
07:10 GMT |
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Totally unexpected for most, Zynga shares dropped 12.52% the day following its 2011 Q4 results were made public. Even if the company recorded growth across the board in major site indicators, it still recorded a net loss in the financial column.On February 14th, before the aforementioned Q4 announcement, Zynga stock ... |
15 February 2012
12:54 GMT |
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GFI’s VIPRE Report for January 2012 reveals that cybercriminals took advantage of every single hot topic to launch their malicious campaigns, targeting gamers, small businesses and even government organizations. Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 and the Halo video game series represented great opportuni... |
9 February 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Contrary to popular beliefs, bigger isn’t always necessary better. This is especially true when it comes to distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks where instead of size, much more significant is the type of attack. This is just one of the conclusions published by Radware’s Emergency Response Team (... |
6 February 2012
10:49 GMT |
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A study released by security firm NCC reveals the origins of most hacking operations and the estimated damages they cause to the global economy each year.
The numbers show that hackers from the UK cost the global economy over $2 billion (1.4 billion EUR) in the year that passed, counting a total of 23 million hack a... |
2 February 2012
09:38 GMT |
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A recent study commissioned by McAfee and produced by the Security & Defence Agenda (SDA), a Brussels-based defense and security think-tank, reveals the opinions of policy-makers and cyber-security experts in government, business and academia from 35 countries on the currently existent cyber threats and the measures ... |
31 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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A recent study shows that online stalking and bullying affect a lot of Internet users from the United States and most citizens believe that local law enforcement authorities have insufficient resources and capabilities to handle such incidents.
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) issued a report to reveal th... |
25 January 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Collaborating with the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade of Luxemburg, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) released a report to highlight the need of education when it comes to online security.
Since in the past couple of years online security started affecting both companies and ind... |
19 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Researchers from F-Secure have put together a report to show the evolution of new threats that target Apple systems. The numbers show the new unique variants the company’s threat researchers detected during the last three quarters of 2011.
More than half of the malicious elements that targeted Mac-running mach... |
17 January 2012
06:48 GMT |
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AegisLabs released a report that sums up the distribution of malware types in 2011 and the numbers are worryingly high.
Most of the 14 million unique pieces of malware detected on a global level were Trojans, their numbers representing close to 65% of all threats.
Around 11% were packed malware, totaling 1.5 mill... |
11 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) analyzed the preview version of the latest AOL Instant Messenger and concluded that users should not install it due to some serious privacy concerns it raised.
The first issue is that conversation logs are stored by default and secondly, all private instant messages are scann... |
5 January 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Facebook attacks were not uncommon in 2011 and the figures revealed that cybercriminals may have made millions with the help of some clever technology, but also with the help of unsuspecting members who clicked on anything they thought to be interesting.
The numbers show that social engineering is an important part ... |
4 January 2012
10:29 GMT |
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While close to 50% of United States citizens declare that they are able to identify a scam or a shady marketing technique, when tested more than half of the 1,858 consumers showed they would be likely to provide personal information to claim a prize after completing an online survey.
The figures show that online don... |
4 January 2012
06:50 GMT |
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The predictions made by security company McAfee for 2012 are interesting from all the perspectives that concern companies, governments and individuals.
The company’s researchers conclude, based on the events that took place in the year that’s just about to pass, that hacktivist movements will either evo... |
30 December 2011
03:07 GMT |
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Saying that social networking has taken over the web will fail to surprise anyone at this point. Facebook and everyone in its tow are huge and they're getting bigger.
As social gets woven into more and more websites, it's getting harder to stay away and data released by comScore shows exactly that.
82 per... |
22 December 2011
11:01 GMT |
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A report from the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) highlights the fact that security is not taken as seriously as it should be in the maritime sector.
The figures show that 52% of the goods traffic in 2010 was made by sea, which means that this sector of the industry is highly important both ... |
22 December 2011
07:46 GMT |
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Researchers from ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, and UCI, Irvine, in the United States released a paper in which they reveal the results of their experiments done with the purpose of simulating a Global Positioning System (GPS) attack, similar to the one allegedly used by Iran to capture the RQ-170 warplane.
The paper c... |
22 December 2011
02:59 GMT |
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After hackers managed to breach their member community portal last week, Square Enix representatives came forward with a statement to reassure their customers that no personal information ended up in the hands of hackers.
When the breach was first discovered, the community website was taken offline since there was a... |
20 December 2011
06:33 GMT |
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Since 2011 is nearly over, security solutions providers are coming forward with predictions about the year to come. Panda Security is one of the companies that will enlighten us with some interesting insight on what’s about to happen. First, it’s expected that the rise of social engineering techniques th... |
19 December 2011
10:00 GMT |
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A recent study made by Lookout Mobile Security reveals that mobile malware has become a reality, cybercriminals managing to illegally earn more than $1 million (700,000 EUR) only from Android users, experts estimating that next year things will get even worse.
The figures show that the likelihood for an Android user... |
15 December 2011
09:47 GMT |
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After in September 2011 they temporarily shut down their certificate issuance services, GlobalSign released a report with their conclusions on the events that took place after they’ve learned that ComodoHacker breached their systems.
On the positive side of things, they state that no rogue certificates were i... |
15 December 2011
06:54 GMT |
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