Fahmida Y. Rashid

Federal law enforcement agents have arrested members of two cyber-crime gangs who may have netted more than $74 million by infecting user computers with scareware and then charging for fake antivirus software. In an endeavor dubbed Operation Trident Tribunal, federal agents seized more than 40 computers, servers and bank accounts in the Netherlands, Latvia, Germany, […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has finally moved ahead with the next step in its fight against the Coreflood botnet: disinfecting compromised machines. When federal law agents seized servers belonging to the Coreflood botnet in April, they obtained legal permission from the United States District Court of Connecticut to replace them with servers under their […]

German researchers uncovered multiple security problems within Amazon’s cloud-computing services caused by customers ignoring or forgetting security tips. Researchers looked at some 1,100 Amazon Machine Images and found a majority of them contained security keys used to authenticate with other services and servers, Thomas Schneider, a post-doctoral researcher in the System Security Lab of Technische […]

Lookout Mobile Security is warning of a new kind of Android malware that bypasses Google’s protections and targets the user’s phone directly. Dubbed GGTracker by Lookout Mobile Security researchers, the latest Android malware is spread through in-app advertisements, Tim Wyatt, a software engineer at Lookout Mobile Security, wrote on the company blog June 20. When […]

Although the cloud-computing market is growing rapidly, organizations should take a measured and deliberate approach to how they adopt the cloud. That was the key takeaway from Jim Reavis’ opening keynote on megatrends in cloud computing at “Cloud Computing: Securely Moving From the Fringes to the Mainstream,” a Ziff Davis Enterprise Digital University presentation on […]

Eugene Kaspersky, CEO Thinking about being careful goes a long way. Kaspersky examines every domain before clicking and thinks about what the domain is, any reputation, and where its going. He also runs Firefox on Windows 7. Eugene Buyakin, COO Buyakin uses a Mac with an antivirus application installed. He said he controls his Web […]

British police arrested a teenager based in Essex, England, who is accused breaching networks and launching distribute denial of service attacks around the world. He may or may not be a part of the LulzSec hacking group. The 19 year old was arrested at his home in Wickford, Essex, on suspicion of breaching the Computer […]

Google announced a free application testing tool, dubbed “DOM Snitch,” to help developers find vulnerabilities in client-side Web applications. The tool can be used by both application developers and QA staff who may not have the security expertise to identify insecure code, Google said June 21. An “experimental” browser extension currently available for Google Chrome, […]

Recent high-profile attacks, including attacks on the CIA, the International Monetary Fund, a public network for the United States Senate and defense contractors may be spurring the government into pushing cyber-security legislation through Congress. If the Obama administration gets its way, the maximum prison sentence for those convicted of breaking into government computer networks or […]

Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off passwords for four hours, potentially exposing data belonging to its 25 million customers to unauthorized users. The breach occurred when the company applied a code change at 4:54 p.m. EST on June 19 that caused problems with the authentication mechanism, Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox CTO and founder, wrote in […]