Talking at the Australian Defence Magazine cyber security meeting in Canberra, Major General Stephen Day, deputy director of cyber and information security at the Australian Signals Directorate, has discovered that the country is hit by dozens of malicious cyberattacks every week. Till Day, 789 attacks...
[caption id="attachment_436" align="aligncenter" width="728"] Gamarue infection chain[/caption] Progressively malware developers are moving to legitimate hosting services to store malicious components. As per experts, a variant of the Gamarue malware is intended to download additional components from the popular code storehouse SourceForge. Four files have been recognized in...
[caption id="attachment_433" align="aligncenter" width="280"] Mobile spam message warns of hacked Google accounts[/caption] While this appears to be a typical phishing scam, it might not be. Experts say it’s difficult to determine what the scammers’ goal is. When users reply to the message, they’re told to enter the...
It’s still not quite clear what PRISM really is, but what has become clear is that the NSA is doing its best to tap into as much online interactions as it can. To protest this, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation,Reddit, the ACLU and numerous other...
[caption id="attachment_419" align="aligncenter" width="580"] If your iPhone gets robbed and ‘Find My Phone’ has been deactivated, Activation Lock will stop it from being reused by a different Apple account.[/caption] Apple may not be able to do anything to stop a robber from stealing your iPhone, but...
Google has broken down its six-week silence on the BadNews bug, telling a US security conference that while it was justified in removing infected applications from Google Play, it had no valid evidence that BadNews was having a part in the spreading of SMS-borne frauds. Announcing...
