Much of the news reporting about the massive denial-of-service attack against anti-spam service Spamhaus over the past week or so …
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GCC firms still have critical gaps in cybersecurity: study
Four in five large GCC enterprises still rely solely on usernames and passwords for authentication to corporate networks, according to Microsoft’s Digital Transformation survey. 0 2299
Malnets make the jump to mobile
Today’s mobile spam and phishing attacks will increasingly delivered by mobile malware networks, despite mobile device operating systems being more …
Virut botnet crippled by researchers
The Virut botnet suffered a major setback last week, after it was announced that many of the domain names used …
Experts defend password-based security
Despite news that Google’s security team is experimenting with ways to replace passwords for logging in to websites, security experts …
Android botnet abuses people’s phones for SMS spam
In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially …
Digital watchdogs warn privacy issues with Facebook changes
Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the …
Dropbox says no evidence of hack in investigation of spam
Dropbox’s ongoing investigation into a possible security breach has not produced any evidence that its systems have been infiltrated, according …
Botnet shutdowns cause big 2011 spam drop, Symantec finds
Botnet shutdowns have stemmed the Internet spam flood, taking daily message volumes back to levels last seen as long ago …
Kaspersky Lab warns against heavy IT consumerisation
According to a recent worldwide study by “O+K” conducted in association with Kaspersky Lab, 16.7% of all Internet users around …
Malware grows to the tune of 75 million samples in 2011: McAfee
Despite McAfee predicting that unique malware samples would hit 75 million in 2011, the security vendor actually found that the …