Report: Social engineering, pdf exploits and code obfuscation top threat list September 2010 | Redaction | Leave a comment IBM is warning of further widespread exploitation by cybercriminals of pdf vulnerabilities and obfuscation and social engineering attacks designed specifically for targeted victim organisations. The warning comes in IBM’s X-Force mid-year Trend and Risk report, a product which it acquired … Continue reading → Tweet
Analysis of iPhone botnet published December 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment A technical analysis of the first smartphone botnet malware that targeted jailbroken iPhones has been issued. The report details the timeline of the evolution of the malware, during in November 2009, from prank code through to malicious malware dubbed iKee.B. … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: From Crime to Organised Crime August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment Just as the public horror of house-breaking is fed by fears of what more the criminal might do; from malicious damage to torture, rape and murder in the household. In the same way cyber crime feeds on fears of major … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: The Affiliate Network August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment Affiliate networks literally allow anyone (eg people made redundant, and people after easy money) to quickly make cash. But it can also make them part of a cyber criminal network. SV: When we were discussing how crime has evolved into organised … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: The Rise of The Robots August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment “…security researchers who try to find the control servers are likely to be hit by DDoS attacks against their systems. Typical DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks involve flooding an Internet service with so much traffic that it ceases to … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: Social Engineering and Social Networks August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment …botnets are now being used to automatically hunt for points of weakness on websites… SV: Let’s talk about social engineering on the Internet. How do you perceive it?Dave: Social engineering is the process of manipulating the user, so that they … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: From Organised Crime to Coup August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment “…The possibilities for cyber warfare are wide open…purposeful cyberwar could take many forms, but is likely to target military and government sites as well as national utilities like water, electricity supply and the media.” SV: Where do you see the … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: The Effects of Cyber Crime Today August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment …If a large corporation buys a mailing list or a report on their competitors’ market strategy, how much detail do they ask about where the data came from and how it was gathered? Just as individuals can be tempted to … Continue reading → Tweet
2009′s Latest on The Evolving Threat Landscape August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment Dave Endler, Senior Director of TippingPoint’s DVLabs security research team gave a special interview with SecurityVibes. Here Dave discusses the broad trends and implications of cyberthreats and uses recent attacks as examples to illustrate these trends. For the average non-specialist … Continue reading → Tweet
Survey Results: Organisations unprepared for iPhone security threat July 2009 | Redaction | Comments (3) Many news agencies recently reported the results from a survey sponsored by DeviceLock, Inc., which essentially showed that organisations had not really understood the dangers that the iPhone and indeed mobile phones in general presented to their organisations. The survey … Continue reading → Tweet
