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SMS-controlled Malware Hijacks Android Phones

Researchers at NQ Mobile, working alongside researchers at North Carolina State University, have discovered new Android malware that is controlled via SMS that can do a number of things ...
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99 Percent Of Malicious Action Starts On Workstations

Roger Grimes made this remark on InfoWorld when he commented on the 2012 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report that was released last week. What he said was: "You should enable event ...
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AV Vendor claims 600,000 Infected Macs in Botnet

The CSO website reported: "A Mac trojan horse spotted by security analysts since last year has infected more than 600,000 Apple computers, says Dr. Web, a Russian antivirus vendor. Apple ...
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If You Do The Cyber Crime, Expect To Do The Time

Roger Grimes at InfoWorld observes something encouraging..."Every public speaker and writer likes a good catchphrase or refrain that will grab the audience's attention. One of mine: ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 2, #15

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Finally Defined: 'Advanced Persistent Threat'

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Global Payment Hack: Almost 340 Million Drop in Value

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Global Payment Hacked"][/caption] This is what they said in their press release: “Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a leader in ...
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New Strategies to Fight Phishing

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Fighting Phishing"][/caption] BankInfo Security summarized the phishing problem for the Financial Industry, and quotes the security ...
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Users are the weakest link in IT

Some excellent work by our colleagues at Trend Micro. They see that users are the weakest link in IT! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="550" caption="Weakest Link in IT"][/caption]
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Malicious Office documents target Mac OS X

Trendmicro reported: "We have recently analyzed a series of emails sent to specific users that leverage a certain prominent socio-political issue. One of these messages is about the ...
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Unique Malware Samples 2006-2011

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="361" caption="Malware Unique Samples"][/caption] Malware is still exploding. Check out this graph. During the last few years, the security industry ...
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Video on Zeus Botnet Takedown

You have probably heard about how Microsoft, the US Marshals together with some other organizations killed some some Zeus botnets. Microsoft's PR crew released a video about the operation ...
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Netherlands Gets European Centre for Cybercrime

Holland's capital The Hague will get a new international showpiece. The new European Centre for Cybercrime will start there early 2013. European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia ...
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CyberheistNews vol 2, #14

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How To Phish Your Employees

I wrote a new article that is also available in the resources section on our website: More and more, the bad guys are bypassing your firewall, endpoint protection and other ...
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Shield your business from cybercrooks

Anne Fisher, Editor of New York's Executive Inbox wrote: "Can you recognize a potentially disastrous breach of your computer system’s security when you see it? Let’s find out with two ...
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CyberheistNews vol 2, #13

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CyberheistNews vol 2, #12

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CyberheistNews vol 2, #11

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CyberheistNews vol 2, #10

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