Security

15 Social Media Scams

From Facebook phishing lures to Twitter and Tumblr hoaxes, here are 15 scams to watch out for on social networking sites.

Unpatched Microsoft XML Core Services Flaw Increasingly Targeted in Attacks, Researchers Say

Sophos discovers new compromised websites that exploit the CVE-2012-1889 MSXML vulnerability

Google “Surprised” by Revived U.K. Street View Investigation

Google is "surprised" that the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) reopened its investigation into the way the company's Street View cars gathered personal data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, the company said in a lette

Report: Flame Part of US-Israeli Cyberattack Campaign Against Iran

Unnamed Western officials confirmed that Flame was developed by US and Israeli governments, the Washington Post reported

Corporate Cyber Attacks Slow Weapons Treaty Progress

Corporate Cyber Attacks Slow Weapons Treaty Progress

American businesses that launch counterattacks on hackers or others who target them online are hindering progress in enacting international weapons treaties. Here's why.

Fake Android Antivirus App Likely Linked to Zeus Banking Trojan, Researchers Say

Cybercriminals are distributing a mobile component of the Zeus banking Trojan as an Android security application, Kaspersky experts said

Data Breach? Virtual Bounty Hunters Will Hunt it Down

The security company CloudeyeZ is taking a new approach to helping companies manage data breaches

Researchers Set New Cryptanalysis World Record for Pairing-based Cryptography

Researchers from Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Kyushu University have set a new cryptanalysis world record by cracking a 278-digit-long (923-bit) key used in a pairing-ba

Android Malware Scam Nets $265K, Lands IT Execs in Tokyo Jail

Japan was recently the site of two high-profile Android security incidents, one of which landed a number of Tokyo-based IT executives in jail.

Data in Possible Credit Card Breach Appears to Be Old

The data, linked to from Pastebin, includes, names, addresses and emails