Infosecurity News Features
Tales of the Cyber Underground: LessPay, Cybercriminals’ Hot New Virtual Currency?
Law enforcement agencies across the world are obsessed with virtual currencies, be it Bitcoin, Litecoin or Dogecoin. This was made apparent on a recent trip to Europol’s European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3) in The Hague.
Tales of the Cyber Underground: The Case of the Stoned Cat (When Android Malware Gone Wrong)
In the latest instalment of the 'Tales of the Cyber Underground' series, Tom Brewster looks into a piece of Android malware selling for thousands on the forums, but appears to have succumbed to an early demise...
Hacker Training 101
How do White Hats and Black Hats learn their trade? And are pen testing tools like Metasploit more useful for attackers or defenders? Drew Amorosi attends a master hacking class to find out…
Tales of the Cyber Underground: Getting Shot at in a Java Drive-by
In the latest installment of the 'Tales of the Cyber Underground' series, Tom Brewster uncovers a spat between an ex-blackhat and a crook using Java exploits to infect machines...
The Hack Back Controversy
An increasing amount of lip service is being paid to ‘hack back’ initiatives. While rules and levels of acceptance vary according to hack back entity – military, law enforcement and private industry – Kevin Townsend finds that perhaps the largest variance of opinion comes down to geography as he asks the question: Should hack back be a legal right for those under cyber-attack?
Tales of the Cyber Underground: Cyber Crooks are Comin’ to Town
As gamers get excited about Christmas, so do the crooks hoping to exploit them. In the latest instalment of the Infosecurity ‘Tales of the Cyber Underground’ series, Tom Brewster looks at how cheap and easy it is to acquire access to illegal games through underground services...
The Underground Bitcoin Malware Boom
As Bitcoin hits new highs, heists and individual robberies are becoming disturbingly common. In the second of the Infosecurity ‘Tales of the Cyber Underground’ series, Tom Brewster investigates the underground market for Bitcoin stealers and miners as crooks seek to exploit the rise of the crypto-currency.
Boost A Botnet With Tor Bulletproofing For Just $500
In the first of the Infosecurity ‘Tales of the Cyber Underground’ series, Tom Brewster investigates the growing trend of using Tor to encrypt botnet traffic and evade network monitors for as little as $500
Meeting the IT Security Challenge
How do you secure a business network? Experts debate whether to focus on keeping devices free of malware or to find ways to protect data despite infected devices
Arab Uprising: Information Security in the Middle East
The Middle East is an emerging market for information security and related awareness. With Israel already at the forefront of the industry, Wendy M. Grossman examines what the rest of the region is doing to catch up
An Inside Look at AT&T’s Operations Center, and its Security Strategy
One of the largest network services providers in the US invited Infosecurity to its Global Network Operations Center in Bedminster, New Jersey, and then explained why it is poised for success within the IT security market.
Get Up on the Download: A Timeline of Kim Dotcom and Mega
The start of 2013 witnessed the resurrection of besieged file sharing site MegaUpload. Drew Amorosi lays out a timeline of the service’s rebirth and the legal troubles of its embattled founder, Kim Dotcom
Data Breach Scoreboard
Infosecurity compiles history’s top data breaches, while surveying the mandatory reporting landscape in the US and Western Europe
The Infosec Vendor’s Guide to the Facebook Overhaul
Using examples from several IT security firms, Joe Dysart outlines how to successfully steer through Facebook’s facelift
You Dirty, Shady RAT
The latest APT to come to light is what McAfee has dubbed ‘Shady RAT’. But the folks at Kaspersky have voiced some objections. Drew Amorosi examines the threat…and the controversy
RSA: Life After Breach
With the RSA security breach still fresh in the minds of information security practitioners across the world, you’d be forgiven for assuming that the heyday for token-based ID is long gone. Stephen Pritchard investigates the advantages and disadvantages of token-based ID and finds out why, for now at least, it’s here to stay
Data Breach Spring
Infosecurity’s Drew Amorosi examines three data breach incidents from the past few months that, by their nature, keep security vendors in business, regulators busy, and CISOs up at night. Find out why industry observers think this rash of massive breaches could lead to a ‘PCI for consumer privacy’
News Feature: Time to Avoid the Droid?
Finally, hype has matched reality in the world of mobile security. Drew Amorosi chronicles the recent ups and downs of the bustling Android Market to find out why it is in the crosshairs of the security industry
News Feature: WikiLeaks ‘Cablegate’ Dominates Headlines
Drew Amorosi recounts the events surrounding WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables that recently garnered so much international attention, and takes a look at the political fallout.
