This white paper discusses in detail Android.Opfake, malware written for Android devices that use dummy sites that demand payment for applications or content through Short Message Service (SMS) messages.
Although Mac OS X can be a very secure operating system, there are certain steps which you can take to avoid becoming a victim to the growing number of attacks. The number has grown in the past few years and this trend is expected to continue.
Symantec Corp. has announced the findings of its January Symantec Intelligence Report, which shows that spammers are using holidays and major events to make their mail more appealing.
If we had to summarize the year in security in a single word, I think it would have to be “explosive.” The incidents, stories, facts, new trends and intriguing actors are so big that it makes it very hard to come up with a top 10 of security stories of 2011. But by looking at these stories, we can get an idea of what will happen in 2012.
PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware laboratory, has detected a malicious link on Facebook that exploits news of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as bait.
Symantec Corp. has identified a large number of automated bots posting ‘tweets’ on popular micro blogging site Twitter with shortened URLs.
Panda Security recently announced the results of its inaugural Kindergarten-12 Education IT Security Study, showing, among other things, that 63 percent of US schools experience malware outbreaks or unauthorized user access at least twice a year.
The public sector is the most targeted industry for malware with 1 in 41.1 emails being blocked as malicious, according to the February 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report released by Symantec Corp.
As organizations depend on the Web for online business applications, access to information, and communication with the public, it is increasingly getting important to adopt proactive protection policies to secure the IT environment. One way to do this is through real-time code analysis.
Charles Mok, chairman of the Internet Society of Hong Kong, notes that the Hong Kong government remains reluctant to monitor Internet traffic due to the potential of this action to be misconstrued as invasion of privacy. He sees cloud computing as changing the way outsourcing opportunities are being approached in the Territory.
