Recently I read an article in the newspaper about a new product incorporated in a Swiss bank where they use a security token with fingerprint check and visual data transmission interpreted by the token. Check this site if you want to know more about it and you understand German : http://www.axsionics.ch/ . The point where [...]

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At least three US oil companies were victims of highly targeted, email-borne attacks designed to siphon valuable data from their corporate networks and send it abroad, according to a published report citing unnamed people and government documents. The attacks against Marathon Oil, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips began with emails sent to senior executives that included links [...]

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The University of Exeter took the unusual step of temporarily taking its network down this week in response to a virulent virus outbreak. Computers at the south west England university were taken offline on Monday for a clean-up in response to an unidentified malware outbreak, which has since been contained. By Thursday the vast majority [...]

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Google’s corporate network was hackedbecause its workers were running rival Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, a point that didn’t escape the notice of security researchers and Web users. “More interesting than the IE zero-day, is why wasn’t Google running Chrome?” asked Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security, shortly after Microsoft issued a [...]

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With more than a week until Adobe is scheduled to patch a critical vulnerability in its Reader and Acrobat applications, online thugs are targeting it with an unusually sophisticated attack. The PDF file uses what’s known as egg-hunting shellcode to compress the first phase of the malicious payload into 38 bytes, a tiny size that’s [...]

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