Fahmida Y. Rashid

The SpyEye Trojan has evolved yet again, as the latest version can intercept Short Message Service texts from compromised Android smartphones. Dubbed “Spitmo,” the new variant is currently being distributed from compromised Spanish banking Websites and targets Android devices, Ayelet Heyman, a senior malware researcher at Trusteer, wrote on the company’s blog. This is the […]

Intel and McAfee have unwrapped details about a new hardware-based security product that offers protection for systems at the chip level. This new technology shows how Intel plans to integrate McAfee’s security and software products into its processor portfolio. The chip giant launched McAfee DeepSAFE, a combined hardware-software platform that would prevent security breaches, block […]

Hewlett-Packard combined its security products and technology from recent acquisitions to unveil an expanded Enterprise Security Solutions portfolio designed to help businesses deal with persistent security threats from cloud applications and social media. This new offering reflects the company’s desire to move more into the security and services markets. The new security portfolio provides organizations […]

In a closed-door summit on advanced persistent threats, CISOs, CIOs and CEOs revealed that their organizations had been breached at least once by sophisticated attackers intent on stealing sensitive information. Several admitted they wouldn’t be able to tell if they had been attacked. More than 100 C-level executives from major organizations attended the Summit on […]

Microsoft fixed 15 vulnerabilities across five security bulletins as part of its September Patch Tuesday release. After accidentally publicizing the patch details a few days early last week, Microsoft officially released the security bulletins and the accompanying patches on Sept. 13. As was disclosed in the earlier pre-notification announcement, none of the patches in this […]

Adobe released more than a dozen security patches that fix vulnerabilities in both Reader and Acrobat as part of the company’s regular quarterly update. Adobe also updated its list of trusted certificate authorities in the wake of the DigiNotar breach. Adobe issued a total of 13 patches addressing critical security issues on Sept. 13. The […]

Symantec rolled out a new cloud-based digital certificate management service to help organizations worried about the security of their Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates. With the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Centre, companies can manage all the certificates for their servers in one central repository, even if the certificates were issued by different certificate authorities. The service, […]

A week after uncovering malware on several key kernel.org servers, the Linux Foundation has taken other key Websites, including Linux.com, offline for a complete reinstall. Linux.com, LinuxFoundation.org and all sub-domains associated with these sites were taken offline after administrators discovered “a security breach” on Sept. 8, according to an email sent to all registered members […]

Android developers are encountering problems with software piracy due to the way Google has structured the Android Market, according to a recent report. This is not only hurting developers, but also the consumers who are buying Android-based smartphones and tablets. In a survey of 75 Android developers, 52 percent claimed to have used some form […]

The week’s biggest data breach news had nothing to do with Anonymous or any other online group. Instead, Stanford University’s hospital confirmed that a spreadsheet containing 20,000 patient records had been posted onto a commercial Website. In this incident, an employee of a third-party service provider to the hospital posted the entire patient information spreadsheet […]