If Moby Dick were written today, Ishmael might be a social engineering-hacker instead of a sailor and Moby Dick might be a corporate CEO instead of a sperm whale. That's because spear phishing
Roughly a third of malware sent to a virtualized environment for analysis is able to elude detection, a security expert says.Security vendors sell virtualized appliances to run and analyze thebehavior of suspicious applications
Published on: June 20th, 2012
Antone Gonsalves
@itbusinessca
At last weekend's NDP leadership convention, the party wanted the media to focus on the future prospects of the federal political party, but instead media was trying to understand an IT problem.The party
The suspected mastermind of the LulzSec hacker group has reportedly confessed to their alleged crimes and helped authorities arrest and build a case against his fellow cyber criminals.Unsealed court papers filed in New
Published on: March 6th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
Sony's PlayStation Network major outage last year was not the only damage done by hackers. Michael Jackson's entire back catalogue of more than 50,000 music files, worth some $250 million, was stolen as
Published on: March 5th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
Cyber-criminals have amassed so many credentials for various social networks and Web services that they are now creating the equivalent of discount factory outlets to sell them off, Trusteer Research reports. The Web
Published on: February 8th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have come across a Web-based attack that exploits a known vulnerability in Windows Media Player."Earlier today, we encountered a malware that exploits a recently (and publicly)
Published on: January 27th, 2012
Lucian Constantin
@itbusinessca
With new services offering small merchants a way to accept credit card payments on an iPhone (such as the product offered by Payfirma) it's now easier than ever to ask your customers "will
Published on: January 26th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
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More hackers are hijacking email and Facebook accounts but almost a quarter of their victims are doing nothing to prevent falling prey again, a new global study says. The amount of spam sent
Zero-day exploits are nerve-racking for IT professionals but are far less dangerous than unpatched older vulnerabilities for which fixes areavailable, Microsoft says.A zero-day is a vulnerability for which a patch is not yet
Published on: October 13th, 2011
Julie Bort
@itbusinessca
Every company in every conceivable industry is compromised by hackers - or will be shortly - according to a report from McAfee, a major maker of cybersecurity software."I am convinced that every company
Published on: August 3rd, 2011
John Ribeiro and John P. Mello Jr.
@itbusinessca
Security researchers are reminding businesses to bolster computer security measures as two of the most widely used do-it-yourself cybercrime kits are soon to be combined into one super kit.Attack toolkits or crimeware are
A majority of security software suites still fail to detect attacks on PCs even after the style of attack has been known for some time, underscoring how cybercriminals still have the upper hand.
Published on: August 18th, 2010
Jeremy Kirk
@itbusinessca
Is there such a thing as online privacy anymore?The recent evidence might suggest that there's not: AT&T's 3G network is hacked, revealing thousands of iPad owners' email addresses. The company later suffers another
Published on: August 10th, 2010
David A. Milman
@itbusinessca
