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Researchers Obliterate Grum Botnet, E-mail Inboxes Everywhere Rejoice
In another sweeping takedown of yet-another-botnet run by Internet cybercriminals, researchers over at the security firm FireEye are announcing that they have dismantled the Grum botnet’s command and control servers. As of Wednesday, the final CnC servers–six located in Ukraine and one in Russia—had been taken offline; as a result, it’s expected that this may ...
Spam Sent to Dropbox E-mail Addresses Leads to Speculation About Breach
An odd spike in spam lead some users of Dropbox to wonder if the service had suffered a breach. The incident occurred when users of the cloud-locker service discovered that e-mail addresses they had uniquely made for those accounts received a sudden uptick in spam e-mails from various sources. This lead to threads being posted ...
OUYA Might Find Synergy with Services Such as Amazon’s Game Connect
The newly minted Android-based gaming console OUYA (recently upgraded to all caps and pronounced “oh-yeah” by many) has been catapulted into the public consciousness via an overwhelmingly supported Kickstarter campaign and brings a free-to-play gaming philosophy. Also on the near horizon, Amazon.com rushed to market with GameCircle and Game Connect, services designed to support the ...
Minecraft Hack Exposes the Fragility of Online Identity (But Not Usernames or Passwords)
Recently, the servers of Mojang’s extremely popular social video game Minecraft suffered an exploit that allowed users to log in as anyone they desired. Unlike the usual news of hacks, this didn’t mean that anyone gained access to databases of sensitive information or exfiltrated usernames and passwords; instead the exploit allowed users to log into the servers ...
Bitcoinica Can’t Catch a Break: Recent Breach Hemorrhages 40,000 BTC
In what appears to be an extension of security issues resulting from a previous breach in May, Bitcoinica—a Bitcoin Forex housing a lot of funds—had their MtGox account compromised and over ฿40,000 BTC were stolen along with a loss of almost $40,000 USD totaling about $350k USD. The initial breach, on May 11 of this ...
Facebook Security Checkpoint a Fair but Currently Flawed Idea
Not many months ago Facebook partnered with antivirus vendors to come up with a plan for aiding their customers in the ever ongoing fight against malware and mere days ago the Malware Checkpoint for Facebook was born. It enables the use of Scan and Repair by McAfee or Security Essentials by Microsoft (available via the ...
Dropped USB Sticks as a Malware Vector: DSM Does Cybersecurity Right
The reason that some malware is called a Trojan is a play on the Trojan horse from the mythology about the ancient Greek siege of the city of Troy. Most Trojans are actually software pretending to be something else (thus getting themselves inside the “gates” of a computer’s security) but in some cases there are ...
Paypal’s Abandonment of Major Cyberlockers May Become Bitcoin’s Big Win
Paypal is now well known for a sort of sanctimonious attitude towards sites that they feel will damage their ability to make money and now that cyberlockers are under fire from copyright conglomerates such as the RIAA, MPAA, and BRIEN. This comes during the long-burn of Megaupload by the U.S. government at the behest of ...
Populating the World with Virtual People: How Augmented Reality Can Amplify Us
We essentially have wearable computers, an Android smartphone of sufficient power can do a great deal of computing and if it can’t succeed all on its own it can have a cloud-computer do the heavy lifting and beam the answer back over the Internet. The next step is bringing that projection out of the screens ...
Lockheed Martin’s Cyber Security VP Curt Aubley Talks About Cloud Security at Intel Forecast 2012
The adoption of cloud in the consumer market and especially the high-profile enterprise market has seen some inhibition, especially surrounding security. John Furrier brought Curt Aubley, Lockheed Martin VP & CTO Cyber Security & NexGen Innovation, into TheCube at Intel Forecast 2012 to speaks about cloud and its intersection with security. They interview was amazing ...