F-Secure is reporting that some new malware attempts in OS X are using a spoofing technique to disguise malicious installations as standard files. The technique involves using a special Unicode character in file names that will make an application appear to be a standard document file.
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Despite the increased profile of cyber security threats, counter-terrorism remains the primary focus of the UK’s intelligence and security agencies.
Bluebox Security, the mobile security startup that’s “working to save the world from information thievery”, has made a name for itself by finding and revealing the existence of an vulnerability that put 99 percent of all Android users in danger of unknowingly downloading malware.
Within Information Security Operations the derived value is in the response to correlated data. These sources typically tend to scale horizontally as organizations buy into further hard assets to assist them in mining the Big Data for answers.
There are times like this when I can’t help but wonder about disaster recovery plans. A large number of companies that I have worked at or spoken with over the years seemed to pay little more than lip service to this rather significant elephant in the room.
Metaforic announced the general release of WhiteBox, a secure cryptography solution for mobile financial, conditional access, BYOD and embedded communications and payments.
Tripwire announced the results of research on the state of risk-based security management with the Ponemon Institute.
There’s no doubt that China is on an aggressive technology acquisition track and has been for 20+ years.
Federal agents have been asked to stay away from one of the world’s biggest hacker gatherings.
Did you hear the one about the world’s most infamous music file-sharer being asked to publicly extol the virtues of the Recording Industry Association of America’s anti-piracy platform?