http://www.net-security.org Help Net Security is a daily updated security related site. We offer information on the latest happenings in the InfoSec world, advisories, viruses, papers, and more. HNS also has a large download section of security tools for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Pocket PC. en-us Copyright since 1998 by HNS staff Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:30:02 -0500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/EbCoo3PjpGc/secworld.php Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who’s leading polls in the race to become the Republican Party’s nominee for the US presidency, is also the favorite politician of spammers touting knock... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:40:29 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12381 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/s2bryA8Ienk/malware_news.php A trojanized Android application for configuring phone settings has been enslaving the devices of the customers of China's two largest mobile carriers into a botnet numbering hundreds of thousands of ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:29:28 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1995 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/eOBsgA0QWFk/secworld.php Abine released Do Not Track Plus (DNT+), a tool that makes it easy for anyone to see when they're being tracked online and stop being profiled by social networks, large advertisers, and data collectio... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:27:18 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12380 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/b9iym5NiJ4c/secworld.php MasterCard and Silver Tail System announced a relationship that will enable merchants to differentiate fraudsters from legitimate consumers in real-time during the online shopping experience. By ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:15:36 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12379 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/cqe60Hq55Uk/secworld.php Embedded systems control many devices in common use today, from digital watches and iPods to traffic lights and the systems controlling nuclear power plants. Since inefficiency isn't tolerated, these ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:21:42 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12378 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/cV1xZ1Av2NI/secworld.php Based on the data obtained with the help of a data leakage control system, and an in-depth analysis of work time usage by staff, the specialists of Falcongaze analytical department conducted a large-s... Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:28:09 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12377 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/IuAXOM1T7Ns/malware_news.php There's been a significant growth in cybercrime, via sophisticated targeted attacks and social media scams, as well as a rise in malicious email attachments, despite a four-year low in spam volumes la... Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:15:17 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1994 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/VY8SklAbL2k/secworld.php ElcomSoft can now recover passwords protecting Apple iWork documents. This makes Distributed Password Recovery the first tool to recover passwords for Numbers, Pages and Keynote apps. “The recove... Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:04:43 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12376 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/4D1xlxoCR-c/secworld.php As with any other project, if you do not ensure enough money and human resources, your ISO 27001 project will fail. Therefore, the only way to get those is to get your management buy-in. If you w... Thu, 9 Feb 2012 07:45:29 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12375 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/UaGB0AN95Tg/malware_news.php GFI Software released its report on the most prevalent threat detections encountered during January. Last month saw malware attacks targeting a wide range of potential victims, including gamers lookin... Thu, 9 Feb 2012 07:44:40 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1993 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/aP5tYYdBQRo/secworld.php Netsparker can crawl, attack and identify vulnerabilities in all custom web applications regardless of the platform and the technology it's built on, just like an actual attacker. It can identify... Thu, 9 Feb 2012 02:18:45 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12374 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/f97SAl3ymuM/secworld.php More companies are building networks with the intention of using them to conduct business. Because the network has become such a strategic business tool, its availability is of utmost importance to co... Thu, 9 Feb 2012 01:30:55 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12373 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/1HqAOQ74bHs/secworld.php Faronics Anti-Virus 3.0 includes Process Protection to defend against attacks at the application level, as well as an IDS that has the ability to write rules for zero day threats and deploy the polici... Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:21:45 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12372 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/LOiiLQzo0xs/secworld.php Future versions of Google's Chrome browser will no longer use online revocation checks to verify whether the HTTPS site the user wants to visit possesses a valid certificate, shared Google researcher ... Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:08:00 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12371 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/jPekYhfa6e0/secworld.php Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. Researchers at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have cracked the encryption algor... Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:25:32 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12370 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/vIcb77smlE0/secworld.php Certificate authority Trustwave has revoked a subordinate root certificate it issued to a company that allowed it to intercept their employees' private email communication. "This single certificate... Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:19:23 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12369 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/H3ve-WXNBfo/secworld.php Users searching for games on the official Android Market have lately been heavily targeted by ad-pushing scammers. First it was the fake Temple Run app, and now a string of bogus copies of popular iPh... Wed, 8 Feb 2012 06:32:02 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12367 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/GS74wn8QNlQ/secworld.php AARP and Microsoft released “Connecting Generations,” a research report that examines how people of all ages are using online communication and social networking to enhance their family relationships. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 06:21:15 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12364 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/jtrsaWFD08Q/secworld.php Elliptic Technologies introduced the tVault Security Architecture - a technology that enables end-to-end security in connected devices. tVault provides robust security inside Trusted Execution Envi... Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12365 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/eMM8UOaOtKA/secworld.php Data recovery from new types of data storage can be extremely time-consuming because of the need to research the algorithms used to originally store the data. Previously, recovery from SSDs, if possib... Wed, 8 Feb 2012 03:18:42 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12363 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/3n0HpQg-r-w/secworld.php Fidelis Security Systems announced a new cloud security solution which provides necessary visibility and control to decrease risks associated with using SaaS. The solution is deployed at the enterpris... Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:30:45 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12362 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/slJaUAUuyu0/secworld.php Lancope announced that its StealthWatch System extends network visibility to mobile devices for the security of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments. By analyzing mobile device information col... Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:00:01 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12361 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/3zusk7TeI4c/secworld.php Symantec announced Backup Exec 2012 to help users eliminate complexity, perform backups in 100 percent virtualized environments and deliver instantaneous and cloud-based recovery through a single solu... Wed, 8 Feb 2012 01:30:54 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12360 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/ZVedA57Oq_E/conference.php What happens when hackers hit the Internet of Things? Find out at The Amphion Forum. It’s the only event focused on the security of the billions of devices that already outnumber PC’s on the network b... Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:14:17 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/conference.php?id=463 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/rQ3D6K6lRlk/secworld.php A little over a year after the implementation of a Flash Player sandbox into Google Chrome, Adobe has announced the release of a public beta of its new Flash Player sandbox for the Firefox browser. ... Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:12:14 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12359 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/Qei3zohZFzA/secworld.php Late Monday evening a 1.2GB file named "Symantec's pcAnywhere Leaked Source Code" was posted on The Pirate Bay. The security firm has downloaded and is analyzing it, but has still to confirm whether i... Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:41:43 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12357 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/pj1I_lp9jJg/article.php Jesse Frankel is the head of the AirMagnet Intrusion Research Team. He has been working in various areas of wireless LAN technology and applications for more than 15 years. Currently he manages the Ai... Tue, 7 Feb 2012 09:00:24 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1671 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/YSfqSx_eK9g/secworld.php Android users who were looking forward to playing the popular Temple Run game - currently available only for iOS devices - have probably thought that the happy day has arrived when they discovered the... Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:21:31 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12356 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/QSBxJHDpV9w/malware_news.php With the US tax season underway, users are constantly being targeted with tax-themed spam. The latest one to be spotted is an email purportedly coming from Inuit, a US company that makes QuickBooks... Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:20:42 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1992 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/6kZt0mSnydQ/secworld.php F-Secure Content Anywhere synchronizes a user’s content in the cloud, making it accessible on any device, anywhere and anytime of the day. Operators will be able to offer a safe personal cloud to thei... Tue, 7 Feb 2012 04:07:56 -0500 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12355