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Google's New App Mall Cop February 06, 2012 
Google last week announced it's beefed up security at the Android Market with a malware sniffing system called "Bouncer." Bouncer analyzes new and existing apps, as well as developer accounts. Before apps are allowed to be sold in the market, they're analyzed to see if they contain any known malware, spyware or trojans.
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Facebook Slaps Likejackers With Lawsuit January 27, 2012 
Facebook and Washington state filed federal lawsuits on Thursday against Adscend Media for "clickjacking," a form of spamming that fools users into visiting advertising sites and divulging personal information. "Likejacking" is similar. Users believe links to spam sites are being sent to them by friends.
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McAfee Supplies Antidote for Tainted SaaS Security January 21, 2012 
Security vendor McAfee, which is now owned by Intel, is rolling out a patch for three flaws in its Endpoint Protection Software as a Service offering. All three flaws are in ActiveX controls. One tricks the control into executing commands supplied by an attacker, the second lets attackers write to files on disk and the third lets attackers execute code with user privileges, McAfee said.
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Bad Security Moon Rising November 22, 2011 
All things considered, this past week has been hell on security professionals. On Monday, AT&T Wireless announced that hackers used automatic scripts to target some subscribers in a bid to steal information stored in their online accounts. They apparently didn't succeed.
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White House Pushes Cyberlaw as Online Crooks Frolic November 01, 2011 
The Obama administration is urging the U.S. Congress to pass cybersecurity legislation that the White House first proposed in May. That proposal incorporates many of the ideas of Senate and House leaders, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt pointed out.
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Malware in the Office, in the Sky and on the Phone October 11, 2011 
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and various federal agencies are ringing it in with a couple of slaps to the head and a kick or two to the shins. First, the Government Accountability Office issued a report that stated 24 major federal agencies have inadequate IT security.
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Kindle Self-Published E-Books Doused by Waves of Spam June 20, 2011 
Amazon's self-publishing e-book platform appears to be overrun by spam or low-quality e-books. Of the thousands of digital books being published through Amazon's self-publishing system each month, many are spam, either developed via Private Label Rights or even using toolkits that help people produce e-books in bulk -- a process that does not involve actually writing an original word.
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Sniffing Out a Scam: Real-Time Detection's Role in Battling Data Breaches May 28, 2011 
The email industry is under a prolonged and targeted attack. Going back almost a year now, service providers and their clients have been the focus of so-called spear-phishing (targeted phishing) and other intrusions that have resulted in large-scale direct and indirect data breaches. It's scary stuff, and the worst of it is far from over.
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Epsilon Breach a Sign of Coming 'CorpTechPocalypse' April 04, 2011 
The world's largest permission-based marketing firm, Epsilon, reported on Friday that its computer system was hacked and an unspecified number of email addresses and names were stolen. Epsilon sends around 40 billion emails a year on behalf of its 2,500 clients, which include major banks such as Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, Barclay's Bank, U.S. Bancorp and Citigroup, as well as e-commerce sites.
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Microsoft Beheads Rustock March 18, 2011 
Microsoft and federal law enforcement agents have taken down the the Rustock botnet, which had about a million infected computers under its control. The botnet was officially considered offline on Wednesday, according to Microsoft. A botnet consists of an infrastructure of computers that have been hacked to send out large amounts of spam.
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JCPenney, Google Shrug Off Accusations of Search Shenanigans February 14, 2011 
JCPenney's search results on Google have been on a strange trajectory over the past few months. For weeks before the holiday shopping season, just about every related search term -- from "bedding" to "dresses" -- would include the retailer among the top listings. Then, within the last few days, there was an abrupt about-face, with its positioning dropping sharply.
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Facebookers' Feeds Crawling With Malware, Security Firm Finds November 23, 2010 
Links to malware-infested sites and other threats lurk in many Facebook users' news feeds, according to research from security vendor BitDefender. Among approximately 14,000 Facebook users who installed BitDefender's Safego security and privacy app, about one in five has malware in his or her news feed.
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'Here You Have' Exposes Internet Security's Achilles' Heel September 10, 2010 
A worm dubbed "Here you have" -- the subject line of the email it hides in -- is spreading wildly across the Internet. The attack comes in the form of a link purporting to take the reader to a PDF file, but instead leads to an executable that tries to send copies of the worm to people listed in the victim's email address book.
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Can Spam-Swamped Ping Survive Without Facebook? September 03, 2010 
Facebook has reportedly shut off access to its friend search feature for subscribers to Apple's newly introduced Ping social music service. The social networking apparently giant did this by denying Ping access to its application programming interfaces, AllThingsD reported.
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Bogus Dislike Button Plagues Hapless Facebook Users August 17, 2010 
How many times have we all seen comments like this on a Facebook status update: "Not like, but dislike," or "I'd press Dislike if there was a button." It's a common complaint about the social networking site's comment options; one can press the "Like" button to give a thumbs-up to a friend's post, but there is no analogous "Dislike" button. Now, enterprising scammers have taken advantage of that desire.
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Microsoft Gets Court Nod to Cripple Spam-Spewing Botnet February 25, 2010 
Microsoft has brought a major botnet to its knees using a combined technical and legal strategy that it expects to deploy again. Earlier this week, a federal judge granted Microsoft a temporary restraining order that cut off 277 Internet domains believed to be run by criminals as the Waledac bot.
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