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More than half of businesses have faced IoT-related attacks, yet only a third consider IoT cyber security “very important.”
Endpoints are still encountering exploits for the LNK vulnerability, one of the principal infection mechanisms used by the Stuxnet worm.
A RSA Conference panel tackles the difficulty in defining cyberwar.
New malware that targets industrial control systems called Irongate was found by researchers who say the discovery should serve as another wakeup call to the security industry to shore up its detection capabilities around ICS and SCADA threats. Irongate, which shares some of the same attributes as the lethal Stuxnet malware, was found by researchers...
Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report painted a bleak picture when it comes to malware, fraudulent login attempts and the staying power of really old exploits. Key findings in the 198-page biannual report run the gamut illustrating how old threats die hard and what new threats are on the horizon. The report, released Thursday, analyzes the threat...
USB-related vulnerabilities make people nervous; you need look no further than Stuxnet and BadUSB to see the dangers associated with infected portable storage devices and peripherals. Yesterday, Microsoft patched a flaw in the Windows USB Mass Storage Class Driver that could put some people on edge. Though the flaw was rated “important,” likely because it...
9 November 2015 - 11:57, by , in News, No comments
It’s about six weeks since we first wrote about XcodeGhost. That’s the Apple Mac malware that was specially created by crooks in China to create iOS malware. You read that correctly. Just as the infamous Stuxnet virus tried to infect PCs with the ultimate goal (allegedly) of indirectly infecting uranium centrifuge controllers, so XcodeGhost aims...