via eWeek Attackers most likely used spear-phishing techniques to compromise Japanese defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries last month, security researchers said. Spear phishing techniques are increasingly being used to steal sensitive information. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries admitted Sept....
via ZDNet The US Department of Justice and the FBI have led a series of international raids that resulted in the seizure of IT equipment and the arrest of two suspects in Latvia, as part of a crackdown on a multimillion dollar scareware operation . The arrests, announced by the Department of Justice...
via InformationWeek The Qakbot worm, which targets consumers’ financial website credentials, appears to be growing more sophisticated and virulent. The long-running worm appeared in 2009, but in the past month there’s been a spike in the overall number of infections seen at any given tim...
via Fierce Government IT It took the Securities and Exchange Commission at least 18 months to install service pack 3 on its Microsoft XP operating system computers, says an annual review of SEC Federal Information Security Management Act. The report, dated March 3 and prepared by the SEC inspector g...
via WSJ Cybersecurity experts combating the Conficker worm claimed qualified success but said millions of computers world-wide were still infected by the malicious software. In a report released Monday, a group of computer-security researchers said they managed to neutralize the worm’s impact ...
Microsoft today patched 40 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SharePoint and Exchange, including nine pegged “critical.” Five of the 17 security updates — Microsoft calls them “bulletins” — fixed long-standing flaws that could be used by a...