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In case you haven’t been following this week’s cyber security events and you want to catch up, here’s a brief of the week’s main events and incidents.
Over the past days, the Syrian Electronic Army has made numerous headlines. First, because they hacked the Twitter account and the SMS service... |
12 May 2013
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There are a lot of aspects to the Boston Marathon explosions, one of them being the scams that have started making the rounds ever since the incident. That’s why this week’s security brief will partly focus on them.
Hours after the unfortunate event, we published an advisory to warn users about the scams... |
21 April 2013
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We've learned about some interesting things from the information security world over the past week, but since no particular topic has made headlines, we’ve entitled this security brief “Diversity.”
When it comes to hacking, the first story worth mentioning is the one about the cyberattacks aga... |
24 March 2013
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In case you’ve been busy this week with other activities, but you’re interested in finding out about the most interesting information security stories we’ve presented, here’s a quick brief.
Let’s start with the hacks. First of all, the Tunisian Cyber Army and the Al Qaida Electronic Arm... |
17 March 2013
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In case you haven’t had the chance to follow this week’s cybersecurity news, here’s a quick brief of the most important events.
First off, it’s worth mentioning that Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters have initiated phase 3 of Operation Ababil.
The websites of several financial institution... |
10 March 2013
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Ever since The New York Times reported being attacked by Chinese hackers, news started pouring in about similar breaches.
This week we’ve learned that the Chinese military is also suspected of targeting 23 US natural gas pipeline operators. In addition, Chinese hackers are also accused of breaching the Europ... |
3 March 2013
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Most of the topics we’ve covered this week have been related to hacks. Several major companies, high-profile Twitter accounts, and government organizations fell victim to cybercriminals.
So let’s start with the major companies. The list includes Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. Apparently, all three are th... |
24 February 2013
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This week, US President Barack Obama has finally issued the long-awaited cybersecurity executive order. The order is not as good as proper legislation, but it’s one step forward in the United States’ attempt to secure the country’s critical infrastructures.
In addition, the executive order doesn�... |
17 February 2013
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The world of information security keeps getting more and more interesting by the minute. However, over the past week, there have been some events that stood out.
First of all, we’ve heard a lot of things about vulnerabilities that affect routers. It all started in January when security firm DefenseCode identif... |
10 February 2013
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This past week’s main events revolve around cyberattacks launched against major US media companies, and China. However, we’ve learned some other interesting things as well, so take a look at this brief in case you’ve missed them. Over the past week, three major US newspapers reported being attacked... |
2 February 2013
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Almost each day of this past week we saw headlines which read “Google was defaced.” Google wasn’t actually defaced, but some hacker groups managed to breach various DNS servers and made it look like Google websites had been defaced. Iranian hackers defaced YouTube, Intel, Gmail and Google Turkmenis... |
27 January 2013
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We’ve seen some interesting things over this past week, but most of them appear to revolve around the Red October cyber espionage campaign, the death of Aaron Swartz and the subsequent OpAngel launched by Anonymous, and Java vulnerabilities.
On Monday, Kaspersky revealed the existence of Red October, a 5-year-... |
20 January 2013
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In its predictions for 2013, security firm McAfee has revealed that this year we’ll likely witness the decline of Anonymous. However, it appears that the hacktivists are determined to prove them wrong so they’ve launched several operations over this past week.
First, they released a video to troll the Je... |
13 January 2013
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Let's take a quick look at this past week's most important cyber security events. They're mostly focused on the OpWBC hacktivist operation, Twitter hacks, and the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on US banks.
The Newtown shooting has attracted a lot of attention. While most of the world mo... |
22 December 2012
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This week we can safely say that we’ve had a little bit of everything: hacks, new malware, data leaks, vulnerabilities and a number of controversial infosec-related stories.
One of the most important events of this past week was the initiation of the second phase of Operation Ababil.
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyb... |
16 December 2012
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Over the past week, we’ve reported about a number of interesting information security-related topics, but most of them have been about John McAfee – the founder of the world-renowned antivirus company – and vulnerabilities in a number of popular services.
John McAfee’s latest “adventures” sta... |
9 December 2012
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This week, Israel and Palestine have signed a ceasefire agreement and most hacktivists stopped launching cyberattacks. However, before the agreement was signed, hackers from both sides launched numerous attacks. Pro-Palestine hackers breached several websites as part of OpIsrael, including ones of Microsoft. They&rs... |
25 November 2012
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Another week is about to pass and all we can say is that the world of information security keeps getting more interesting by the minute. This week, the main events revolved around Anonymous’ Operation Israel (OpIsrael), some critical vulnerabilities in Skype, and digital piracy.
We’ve learned that Israel... |
17 November 2012
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This has certainly been an interesting week. Hackers from all around the world have celebrated Guy Fawkes Day in a typical manner, researchers have found vulnerabilities, and hacktivists of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters collective have offered us an exclusive interview.
The interview focuses on the group&r... |
10 November 2012
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It’s probably obvious why this week’s security brief focuses partly on the scams that came along after Hurricane Sandy hit the United States coast. The “millions” part comes because many of this past week’s headlines contained the word “million.”
Let’s elaborate.
Firs... |
4 November 2012
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This week, most security solutions providers rushed to released their reports for the third quarter of 2012. Besides some interesting statistics about spam, malware and phishing we’ve also learned about a number of noteworthy vulnerabilities that affect various “products.”
One of the most interesti... |
27 October 2012
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This week started off strong with news about Flame’s little brother. It turned out that SPE, which researchers believed was only a module, was actually a unique standalone malware. Considering the discovery, the “little guy” was baptized miniFlame.
On the same day, we learned that Santander Bank�... |
21 October 2012
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As each week goes by, we seem to have more and more interesting topics for our security briefs. In the past few days a number of important events occurred in the world of information security, but in this article we’ll focus on three main elements: WikiLeaks, cyberattacks on US banks, and the controversial Phil... |
14 October 2012
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This was a busy week for the world of information security, with hacktivists attacking US banks, major vulnerabilities being discovered, and some other incidents that made a lot of headlines around the world.
The main events of this week were the attacks launched by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters. After disrup... |
30 September 2012
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We’ve had a busy week, with all sorts of things happening in the world of information security. However, most prevalent this week were protests against blasphemous videos and cartoons featuring the Muslim prophet Mohammed, cyber legislation, and the zero-day in Internet Explorer.
The Innocence of Muslims movie... |
23 September 2012
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This past week was a busy one in all the departments of the information security industry: websites were hacked, data was leaked, botnets were disrupted, hackers were arrested, and vulnerabilities have been found. But let’s take them one at a time.
Video games have taken up a lot of our time this week. First, ... |
16 September 2012
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In the past week, Anonymous hackers have made a lot of threats, planned protests, and attacked various websites, which is why we’ll dedicate part of this security briefing to their campaigns.
Do you remember the ACTA protests? It appears that we may see similar actions against the newly uncovered TrapWire mass... |
26 August 2012
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This week (August 13 – August 19) can certainly be called the week of Anonymous operations. There have been so many of them that we almost lost track, which is why we’ll sum them all up in this security brief.
The week started with Operation TrapWire, initiated by Anonymous in response to the mass survei... |
19 August 2012
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In the past week (between August 6 and August 12) we had a lot of interesting events, but two of them stand out the most: Operation Demonoid and Operation Australia.
OpDemonoid started after the world learned that Ukrainian authorities raided the datacenter that housed the torrent tracker’s servers. Many belie... |
12 August 2012
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It seems that the high temperatures many countries are experiencing at the moment haven’t discouraged hackers, since in the week between July 16 and July 22 they’ve managed to provide a lot of interesting stories.
The week started with a data breach that affected the ASUS eStore. The company was not able... |
21 July 2012
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The week that is about to pass can clearly be called the “week of the hack,” the list of victims being comprised by high-profile companies such as Yahoo!, Phandroid’s AndroidForums, Formspring, NVIDIA and Billabong. While we haven’t been able to confirm it, PBS and the World Health Organizatio... |
15 July 2012
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There is a lot going on in the world of information security at the moment and this week (July 2 – July 8) we’ve seen all sorts of events, from Anonymous hacks and massive data leaks, to controversial botnets and vulnerabilities. This is why we call this week the week of diversity.
First of all, a number... |
8 July 2012
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Our weekly security briefing continues with the main events that left their print on the days between June 25 and July 1.
In the past week, we reported a lot of vulnerabilities and a lot of news that involved law enforcement agencies from all over the world.
As far as security holes are concerned, the week started... |
1 July 2012
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Another week almost passed and the information security industry keeps becoming more interesting. The week between June 18 and June 24 was mostly marked by things such as piracy, hacks that raised suspicion, rewards, and some curious Trojans. The Trojans we are talking about are Milicenso and Medre. Medre is a perfe... |
24 June 2012
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In the week that’s about to pass (June 11 - June17) we’ve seen a lot of interesting things but, if we had to appoint a particular topic that marked it, it would have to be scams and spam.
On Monday, we saw that Amazon was warning its customers about a spam campaign that posed a serious threat. Malwa... |
17 June 2012
03:41 GMT |
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“Security Brief” continues with some of the most important events and incidents that marked the week between May 14 and May 20, 2012.
Many security companies detailed their findings as far as mobile malware is concerned. We‘ve seen that shady Android markets are showing up everywhere in the world,... |
20 May 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Some time has passed since we made weekly security briefs, but now we plan on bringing back that tradition and make a summary of the most important events that marked the week that passed. First of all, our Hackers around the world series continued with a hacker from Rwanda. He is a perfect example of the implicatio... |
12 May 2012
13:41 GMT |
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