By John E Dunn, techworld.com The source of the Apple Mac Flashback Trojan was probably a large clutch of compromised US-based WordPress blog websites hijacked to push visitors to malware hosts, Kaspersky Lab research has revealed. As has previously been established...
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News A remote access computer Trojan (RAT) designed to steal credit card details from hotel point-of-sale (PoS) applications is being sold on the underground forums, researchers from security firm Trusteer said in a blog post on Wednesday....
By Kevin Parrish Google has informed 20,000 web sites that they could be infected with redirect malware. On Tuesday, Google’s Matt Cutts said via Twitter that his Google Search Quality team sent out warning letters in numerous languages to 20,000 websites...
by Righard Zwienenberg Senior Research Fellow Phishers always try to find new ways to bypass security features and trick ‘educated’ users. Over the years we have seen simplistic phishing attempts where the required information had to be typed into the...
By David Harley A while ago, I responded to a blog comment promising some thoughts on how to recognize a cold-calling PC support scam. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to do that immediately, and then I was on vacation with no Internet connectivity (I should do that...
by Cameron Camp Security Researcher We recently highlighted a security walkthrough on Pinterest.com, the pinboard style sharing website that’s taking the social media by storm. Since then, they’ve continued to grow, and continued to have accompanying...