Today, researchers from F-Secure stumbled upon a long anticipated feature in Twitter’s fight against malicious abuse of its service – a malware URL filter preventing automatically registered or compromised legitimate accounts from tweeting known malicious links. Whenever a Twitter user is attempting to post a link to a known malware/phishing URL, a “Oops! Your [...]
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Connectivity is addictive, and in my line of work it’s a prerequisite for timely assessing the latest cybercrime incidents as they emerge in order to properly respond to them. Next to connectivity, I put mobility as the second most important success factor, in particular my ability to increase the average working time for my [...] In this podcast, I chat with Threatpost.com co-editor Dennis Fisher about the big news coming out of the Black Hat security conference. We discuss the attacks using SMS and MMS, rootkits in keyboards and BIOSes, vulnerabilities in SSL and the response from vendors to these problems. Listen here [mp3]. Read entire article [...] Apple’s sleek $49 Mac keyboards can be hacked and infected with keystroke loggers and impossible-to-detect rootkits, according to a security researcher presenting at this year’s Black Hat/DEFCON conferences. The researcher, known only as “K. Chen,” found a way to reverse engineer and tamper with the keyboard’s firmware upgrade. With the firmware under control, an attacker [...] It has only been a few days since former Philippine president Corazon Aquino died of cardio-respiratory arrest last Saturday (August 1). Cybercriminals are already well on their way to use this event for their own selfish gains. Cybercriminals use popular and high interest events to further their cause—in this case, spreading fake antivirus software detected [...] |
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