The Significance of the “Nitro” Attacks

A recent report by Symantec documented a campaign of targeted malware attacks that began as early as April 2011 and continued up to October 2011. During this time, the attackers managed to compromise at least 100 computers around the world. This report illustrates some of the key findings in our latest white paper, Trends [...]

There’s Something Phish-y About this Email from Apple

Today, I received an email from Apple telling me that there was a change in my account information. Seeing that I had already changed it a few weeks ago, I was rather curious to see what this email from “Apple” had to say. After opening the message, I was surprised to see an uncanny [...]

Tricks and Threats [INFOGRAPHIC]

“[I]‘m going to watch you and monitor your telephone line.” “Your internet access is going to get suspended.” “Someobdy uplaod a vdieo wtih you on utbue” Halloween is fast approaching and it’s that time of the year when scaring people is the most popular form of entertainment. However, not all spooks this season may [...]

Technical Analysis for Mozilla Firefox Array.reduceRight() Vulnerability

The usage of exploits in current threats underlines the critical need for users to keep programs updated at all times. Considering the great amount of time people spend on their computers connected to the Internet, web browsers are prime targets for cybercriminals. This is a technical analysis of a recently discovered vulnerability in one of [...]

New Mac OS X malware with DDoS functionality spotted in the wild

Security researchers from multiple companies, have spotted a new Mac OS X malware. Dubbed ‘Tsunami’, the malware’s primary goal is to act as platform for executing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

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