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July 2012

Password Party Weekend? Millions exposed now include Phandroid, Nvidia, me

Changing the passwords on your online accounts might not sound like a fun weekend activity, but that’s what I did last weekend. Why? Because on Sunday I found out that one of my email addresses was in the list of Yahoo! logins whose passwords were exposed by sloppy handling of a credential file (an incident

Rovnix bootkit framework updated

Changes in the threatscape as regards exploitation of 64-bit systems, exemplified by the latest modifications to the Rovnix bootkit.

Passwords of Plenty*: what 442773 leaked Yahoo! accounts can tell us

If a service leaks your credentials, your options are limited, but changing all your passwords to something harder to guess/break is never a bad idea.

Scareware on the Piggy-Back of ACAD/Medre.A

There are always people who want to piggy-back on the achievements of others. After ESET warned the public against ACAD/Medre.A in two blogs here and here  and issued a free standalone cleaner for remediation, there was always the possibility that drawing attention to the issue would result in the topic being misused for other purposes.

Instagram vulnerability can allow strangers access to your photos and more

Are you one of the 50 million users of Instagram, the photo-sharing service bought by Facebook in April for $1 billion? If so you need to look out for an Instagram update to fix a vulnerability that has just been published by Spanish security researcher Sebastián Guerrero. This vulnerability, which Guerrero has dubbed the "Friendship

Java the Hutt meets CVE-2012-1723: the Evil Empire strikes back

The Java exploit for CVE-2012-1723 is already included in the latest update of the BlackHole exploit kit.

Is my business too small to be hacked by a nation-state (or should I worry)?

Small businesses have their hands full these days in light of a down economy, tightening budgets and the steepening pace of business, but with nation-state hacks front and center in the threatscape, should you worry about those too, or are you (and your customers) safe? Nation-state hacks bring to mind images of large defense contractors,

DNSChanger: lies, damn' lies and telemetry statistics

First the panic, then the accusations of hype. Can we really estimate the impact of DNSchanger yet?

DNSChanger mini-FAQ

Some brief answers to questions about the server shutdown that will affect tens/hundreds of thousands of DNSChanger victims on 9th July.

Cybercrime and the small business: Basic defensive measures

Evidence that criminals are targeting the computer systems of small businesses continues to mount. The Wall Street Journal recently drew attention to the way cybercriminals are sniffing out vulnerable firms. The article highlighted the fact that about 72% of the 855 data breaches world-wide last year that were analyzed in Verizon's Data Breach Investigation Report

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