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Tactics of WordPress attackers similar to bank assaults
The similarities have security experts worried
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Wide-scale attack against WordPress blogs reported
Unidentified hackers are said to have have launched a large-scale attack against WordPress blogs and any hosts using weak passwords are urged to update them immediately.
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Hackers planted backdoor in Piwik's web analytics update
Widely-used open source web analytics platform Piwik has confirmed that hackers on Monday breached its piwik.org webserver and planted malicious code in the ZIP file containing its current software update.
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Botnet authors crash WordPress sites with buggy code
Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.
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Bank trojan targets users of Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox
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Australian Information Security Association issues blunt warning as National Cyber Security Awareness Week begins
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Review: Mobile Device Management
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The week in security: Aussie banks targeted as mobiles drive privacy fears
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Security a key factor in LogMeIn’s Internet of Things platform
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PR Deadlines scores two more ICT accounts
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AVG Technologies Acquires Leading Online Privacy Firm PrivacyChoice
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Clamp the cable clutter with 4Cabling
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AVG Technologies Launches its Latest Range of Performance Applications for Android™
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Lan 1 meets demand for cloud security with Authentication-as-a-Service
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Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
- Get your users on-side.
- Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement.
- Practice makes perfect.
Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping
I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.
