Australian IT Reports On Hackers Targeting Smartphones and Social Networks

Posted by admin on 7/Apr/2011 in In The News, Security Alert Log | 0 comments

I read an article on Australian IT this morning saying exactly what we have been telling you about for a while now. Hackers are targeting smartphones and social networks. Don’t ever say that nobody tried to warn you.

Here is an excerpt from the article.

Hackers are preying on smartphones and social networking hotspots, according to reports released by two computer security firms.

Cyber-criminals are also ramping up the sophistication and frequency of attacks on business and government networks, one of the companies, Symantec, said in the latest volume of its Internet Security Threat Report.

Symantec depicted a “massive” volume of more than 286 new computer threats on the internet last year, continued growth in attacks at online social networks and “a notable shift in focus” by hackers to mobile devices.

“The major mobile platforms are finally becoming ubiquitous enough to garner the attention of attackers,” Symantec said in its findings.

In March, smartphones running on Google-backed Android software were the target of the largest attack ever on the devices, noted a PandaLabs report focused on the first three months of this year.

Read the full article on Australian IT.

RSA 2011 Cybercrime Trends Report

Posted by admin on 1/Feb/2011 in Press Releases, Security Alert Log | 0 comments

This is a very important article/whitepaper that was published recently by RSA. It explicitly points to mobile phones being a security problem and makes specific mention of SMS and mobile banking being vulnerable.

The Current State of Cybercrime and What to Expect in 2011

Cybercrime continues to show no signs of slowing down. In fact, 2010 marked a year of several new threats and an increased level of sophistication in the attacks witnessed around the globe. As the new decade opens, cybercrime is diverging down a different path as cyber attacks move beyond the financial services industry and malware makes a shift from targeting consumer desktops to employees in the enterprise.

The RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC ) has developed a list of the top cybercrime trends it expects to see evolve over the course of 2011.

The RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center is on the forefront of new threat detection and cybercrime intelligence, achieving several milestones including the shutdown of over 350,000 online attacks across 181 countries and launching the first commercial anti-phishing and anti-Trojan services in the industry.

In this white paper, RSA will review the current state of cybercrime based on what we witnessed in the last twelve months and provide a series of predictions on what to expect from cybercriminals in 2011.

Read the full article (PDF Format) as published by RSA on their web site (free registration required)

President Obama Address on Securing Cyberspace Press Conference

Posted by admin on 29/May/2009 in Security Alert Log | 0 comments

Yesterday President Barack Obama announced his plans for securing cyberspace. It would have been hard to imagine George Bush giving a talk about malware and bots. That’s exactly what Obama did.

Phrases like this sound perfectly natural coming from Obama: “We’ve had to learn a whole new vocabulary just to stay ahead of the cyber criminals who would do us harm – spyware and malware and spoofing and phishing and botnets.”

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