Fahmida Y. Rashid

A security researcher discovered several vulnerabilities in industrial control systems software from China that can be exploited remotely. The vulnerabilities can be used to knock out or take over SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems from Chinese firm Sunway ForceControl Technology, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber-Emergency Response Team said […]

Businesses and analysts aren’t the only ones interested in Apple’s upcoming iCloud service. Scammers are moving in on the action to deliver fake antivirus software. Cyber-criminals have already used black-hat search engine optimization techniques to poison search results for the “iCloud” keyword, Paul Pajares, a fraud analyst with Trend Micro wrote June 20 on the […]

Despite repeated reminders to select strong passwords and not to reuse them across Websites and services, online users continue to be frighteningly lax in their password security, according to a recent analysis of leaked passwords. Security experts recommend taking a multilayered approach to security. Instead of relying on a single point of failure, organizations should […]

Attackers are actively exploiting a Flash vulnerability that Adobe just released a fix for in its quarterly security update a few days ago. Security Labs blog on June 17. It is being exploited in the wild on a “fairly large scale,” Shadow Server’s Steven Adair wrote, noting that the team first learned about the exploit […]

MALAGA, Spain – An RSA Security executive discussed in greater detail the data breach the company suffered earlier this year during a panel on zero-day attacks. During the attack, which RSA disclosed in March, thieves stole information related to the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication technology. It turns out that only four employees received the spear […]

Go to Account > Privacy Settings Strangely enough, the recommended settings for privacy on Facebook are not very private at all. If you are interested in having some semblance of privacy on Facebook, go for custom to be able to tweak each setting individually. Groups Can Customize Settings If the user has created groups in […]

Citigroup officials are saying now that 360,083 credit card accounts were accessed in the data breach this month, far more than the 210,000 they originally estimated. Citigroup released the revised tally in a letter to customers June 15. The release came after Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said the company was not giving out enough […]

Two draft versions of data breach bills were introduced in Congress: one by U.S. Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., and the other by Sens. John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark. The Bono Mack draft bill would require companies to notify the Federal Trade Commission and law enforcement […]

Two United States senators have introduced a bill that would require companies to explicitly get permission from mobile users before sharing location data with other third-parties. The Location Privacy Protection Act would close loopholes in existing law, Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Richard Blumental (D-Conn.) said as they introduced the bill on June 15. The […]

Lookout Mobile Security added a new tool called Safe Browsing to its Lookout service to protect users from Websites that can attack their Android phones. Safe Browsing checks every Website the user tries to access before it loads to prevent Websites from downloading malware onto the device, Lookout said June 15. It also tries to […]

There appears to be a significant drop in the number of computers that have been infected by malware exploiting the Windows autorun feature, according to Microsoft. Autorun allowed programs to launch automatically when a CD or USB drive was inserted into a Windows PC. While it sounded great in theory, the feature was gleefully exploited […]

Virus and malware activity increased in May, sporadically hitting peaks of more than 10 million pieces per day, AppRiver researchers said in its monthly threat-landscape report. Scammers took advantage of major news events to push out new pieces of malware while cyber-attackers continued to target large companies in May, according to AppRiver’s latest Threat and […]