If you think your business is ‘too small to fall’ victim to hacker techniques such as those used against Google in January 2010 , the PlayStation network breach or the recent cyber attack on several Canadian government agencies , think again.
Transocean’s deepwater.com hosts malware exploits
Transocean, the offshore drilling contractor at the center of the world’s biggest marine oil spill in the history of petroleum production, has been caught spewing a virtual sort of toxic sludge, according to a report released Thursday.
Researchers at w…
Canada Fast Developing Into the New Home for Hackers
Canada has in the past been known for Mounties, ice hockey, showing off their superior language skills by using both English and French, and the weather also being a bit chilly – but very recently the country has sadly become an ideal location f…
Hackers infect websites to dupe Internet …
Computer security firm Websense on Friday was warning that hackers have infected a huge number of websites with malicious code crafted to dupe Internet users.
Mass SQL injection attack leads to scareware
Security researchers from WebSense have detected a mass SQL injection attack, which the cybercriminals monetize through scareware, also known as fake security software.
Zero-day IE flaw not in Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has not included Internet Explorer in its Patch Tuesday list, leaving a zero-day vulnerability without a fix.
The flaw could allow hackers to obtain information, or take any action that the user could take on an affected website. The Redmond…
BBC 1Xtra and 6Music attacked
The websites of national digital radio stations BBC 6 Music and 1Xtra have been hit by hackers, according to a security company.
Websense report the sites have been injected with malicious code, and are opening users to attack from a website that is s…
Hacked BBC streaming websites serve up malware
Driveby exploit on 6Music and 1Xtra
Streaming sites operated by the BBC were hacked on Tuesday so they silently served visitors with malware, researchers from security firm Websense said.…
Logic Flaw Renders Exploit Kit Inactive After New Year’s Eve
Security researchers from Websense have come across an exploit kit which rendered itself inactive on January 1, 2011, as an unintended side affect of its obfuscation. The code on the kit’s attack page, which makes use of a Java exploit, is highly obfus…
