Arsenal Lotto scam spammed out via PowerPoint file
Sophos - Naked SecurityScammers use desperate measures in their attempt to trick you into believing you have won a lottery run by Arsenal Football Club.
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Wow. Mickey Rourke has died snowboarding, just like Sylvester Stallone, Jim Carrey, Christian Slater...
Sophos - Naked SecurityDespite what you may have read on the internet, Mickey Rourke has *not* died in a snowboarding accident.
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Backdoors Found in Barracuda Networks Gear
Krebs on SecurityA broad variety of the latest firewall, spam filter and VPN appliances sold by Campbell, Calif. based Barracuda Networks Inc. contain undocumented backdoor accounts, the company disclosed today. Worse still, while the backdoor accounts are apparently set up so that they would only be accessible from Internet addresses assigned to Barracuda, they are in fact accessible to potentially hundreds of other companies and network owners. -
Sony fined £250,000 after hackers gained access to millions of gamers' details
Sophos - Naked Security"There’s no disguising that this is a business that should have known better," says ICO director.
How many headlines do there have to be before companies take data security more seriously?
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Kim Dotcom's coders hacking on Mega's cryptography even as we speak - true "perpetual beta" style
Sophos - Naked SecurityKim Dotcom's new venture, Mega, wants to shield itself from accusations of failing to take action against piracy.
It does so by using cryptography to make sure it doesn't see, and indeed cannot tell, what you've uploaded. But you have to get the crypto right...
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Living the Phoenix - A book review of Gene Kim's "The Phoenix Project"
HP Following the Wh1t3 Rabbit - Practical Enterprise SecurityThis post is a review of Gene Kim's "The Phoenix Project"... easily summed up as one of the most important books any IT professional can read.
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MDK: The Largest Mobile Botnet in China
Symantec Security Response BlogsIn February 2012, we blogged about Android.Bmaster (a.k.a. Rootstrap), which infected hundreds of thousands of devices. At that time, it was the largest mobile botnet documented to date.
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Bank-raiding malware crimes - three men charged in New York
Sophos - Naked SecurityThe DoJ has published five "charging documents" filed in New York yesterday against three men accused of operating a bank-raiding malware enterprise.
The documents give a fascinating insight into a cybercrime operation...
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Oracle, please stop sneakily foisting third-party toolbars on us with your Java updates
Sophos - Naked SecurityIf you're installing a critical security update on your computer, caused by the software vendor's sloppy code quality, you probably wouldn't dream that your software vendor is trying to make some money out of the inconvenience.
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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.
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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.
