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iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones will be among the major targets for cybercriminals in the coming year, McAfee has warned. That's because the consumerization of technology is leaving enterprise IT unprepared for the onslaught of personal devices in the corporate environment. Expect cybercrimin...
Eying what could be a substantial business advantage, enterprises are racing to make their workforces mobile. Salesforce.com's ongoing love affair with the Apple iPad extends beyond equipping its executives with the device to singing its praises at every opportunity. Mercedes-Benz distributors are g...
The security community was horrified when it learned about Stuxnet, the worm designed to eat into industrial control systems, or SCADA systems, that was purportedly targeted at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor. Not only was the worm highly sophisticated, but it also targeted a SCADA system from Siemen...
The end of Thanksgiving means the beginning of holiday shopping season, and as usual, a great deal of that shopping will be done online. But while online shopping is easy and convenient, it's also fraught with dangers. Sure, it's easy to search the Web for the best price on that laptop or video gami...
Links to malware-infested sites and other threats lurk in many Facebook users' news feeds, according to research from security vendor BitDefender. Among approximately 14,000 Facebook users who installed BitDefender's Safego security and privacy app, about one in five has malware in his or her news ...
Microsoft's vice president of trustworthy computing, Scott Charney, has put the call out for a collective, coordinated approach to protecting the public from, among many other threats, botnets. The worldwide Internet community would do well to apply a public health approach to battling the viruses a...
The Stuxnet worm, which made headlines last summer when it hit one version of a system that controls critical infrastructure systems governing power grids and industrial plants, is once again creating a buzz. This time, there's speculation that it was created by Israel to target Iran. However, secur...
A worm dubbed "Here you have" -- the subject line of the email it hides in -- is spreading wildly across the Internet. The attack comes in the form of a link purporting to take the reader to a PDF file, but instead leads to an executable that tries to send copies of the worm to people listed in the ...
Adobe has acknowledged that its widely used programs for creating and reading PDF files currently are under attack by hackers, but it has offered little information about how it plans to thwart the assault. In an advisory posted on its website Wednesday, Adobe said essentially all versions of its Ac...
While the cloud appears to be the ultimate jailbreaker, it is prudent to remember that a freed device is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, the phone becomes a truer handheld computer, fully enabled to exceed native carrier and device restrictions. On the other hand, the phone becomes a miniature co...
Trend Micro on Tuesday announced an agentless antimalware module for VMware virtual environments in its Deep Security 7.5 product. The company also announced on Tuesday that it's throwing open its Trend Micro SecureCloud beta to the public. Both products will protect data in the virtual environment ...
Computer users today face a new round of attacks that pose new challenges to both consumers and businesses. These new attack vectors often sidestep traditional security defenses. Hackers, supported by international crime gangs with deep pockets, are accosting consumers and office workers with sophis...
The Stuxnet worm is one of the most sophisticated bits of digital malware security researchers have come across in a long time. Now, those researchers want to know where it came from. Was Stuxnet the product of a den of hackers working on their own accord, or did a national government somewhere in t...
Microsoft Windows doesn't have a good way to handle digital certificates that have been tampered with, Roel Schouwenberg, senior antivirus researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said Tuesday at the company's North American Virus Analyst Summit in San Francisco. One problem is that it doesn't clearly indicate ...
Hackers hit YouTube over the weekend, injecting pop-ups, disabling comments and redirecting viewers to porn sites when they tried to access videos. Google clamped down on the problem swiftly and is attempting to figure out who was behind the attack. The hack followed the online publication of a YouT...
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