Infosecurity News
Cybersecurity Spending to Hit $170Bn by 2020
Some verticals will spend more than others: The aerospace, defense and intelligence vertical continues to be the largest contributor.
British Spamhaus DDoS Teen Walks Free
'Narko' sentenced to 240 hours of community service
Ad Fraud Attack Using Flash Zero-Day Skips the EK
The benefit of skipping the EK is that it's very streamlined and lightweight—and much harder to detect by security scanners.
Intel Security: UK Firms Failing on Staff Security Training
Research finds most exposed employees are ill equipped to deal with threats
OPM Comes Clean: Dual Breaches Exposed 22.1 Million Individuals
Huge counter-intelligence coup for nation state attacker, thought to be China
Don’t Panic: Latest OpenSSL Flaw Not a Heartbleed-Sized Bug
High-severity discovery needs patching, but will not affect many
Intrusion Protection Spending Stays Steady, Monitoring Lags
37% of enterprise security managers expect to increase their IDS/IPS budget in the next 90 days.
Security Researchers Hack Politicians Over Public Wi-Fi
F-Secure and co. prove how easy it is to access private accounts
Leaked Hacking Team Flaw Used in Attacks Before Sunday Doxing
Adobe vulnerability exploited against Korean and Japanese targets from late June
Edinburgh Council Web Attack Breaches Over 13,000 Email Addresses
Users warned to expect follow-up phishing attacks
Mysterious Hacking Group Wild Neutron Returns to Wreak Havoc
It's using an unknown Flash Player exploit to infect companies and private users around the world and steal sensitive business information.
Over Half of UK Small Firms Open to Cyber-Attack – Report
CSID claims businesses are concerned, but failing to act
Explosive Gunpoder Malware Evades All Android AV Products
Palo Alto Networks claims security tools classify it as adware
Adobe to Patch Hacking Team Flash Player Bug
Flaw has been exploited in the wild after being disclosed in Sunday’s data dump
NSA Search Engine Taps Into Global Comms to Intercept, Well, Everything
The XKeyscore search engine hoovers up vast amounts of private communications information, including 700,000 voice, fax and video files every day.
OpenSSL to Patch Critical Mystery Bug on Thursday
Unfortunately, like Heartbleed, the mystery bug is likely to be a big deal. OpenSSL is a basic component of a wide swath of the web.
Trend Micro Teams Up with NCA to Bust Cyber-criminals
Security giant will form virtual team with the agency after MoU is signed
Hacking Team Hacked in 400GB Breach
Controversial intrusion software company on the receiving end
AirLive IP Surveillance Cameras Allow Remote Access
The user needs to specify in the configuration of the camera that HTTPS is used for communications—this is not enabled by default.
Fake BatteryBot Pro App Serves Malware, Can't Be Deleted
The fake app provides the same functionality of the original version of BatteryBot Pro, but performs malicious activity in the background.
