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Android Malware: Breaking New Ground and Old Taboos
Last Thursday's post links to "Stels"analysis by Dell SecureWorks. (Read it!) Stels is a versatile Android trojan which has recently started spreading via the Cutwail spam botnet.Android malware being...
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South Korea, Starbucks, and Android/Smsilence
Several weeks ago, an McAfee researcher named Michael Zhang analyzed an Android trojan which specifically targets South Korean phones. It's called Smsilence, and it uses bait such as "Starbucks...
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Cybersecurity
Published last Thursday — Cybersecurity: A View From the Front— a New York Times Op-Ed by Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, is highly recommended reading.Hat tip to @JarnoLimOn 15/04/13 At...
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Wired on Cyberwar. In 1996.
I heard Wired Magazine is turning 20.Congratulations!As I used to subscribe to the magazine around '93-'96, I went looking for my old copies, and I did find a stack. One of the weirdest things about...
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Infosec's Hall of Fame 2013
Infosecurity Europe 2013 opened its doors today. And tomorrow…Our own Mikko Hypponen will be inducted into Infosec's Hall of Fame.Congratulations Mikko!Session details here. On 23/04/13 At 12:42 PM
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CVE-2013-2423 Java Vulnerability Exploit ITW
A few days after Oracle released its critical patch for Java, and CVE-2013-2423 is already being exploited. Upon checking the history, the exploitation seems to have begun on April 21st and is still...
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Apple's Root Certs Include the DoD
Fun Fact!Among the trusted root certificates used by Mac OS X, iOS 5 and iOS 6……are two from the United States Department of Defense (DoD).Interesting, no? On 24/04/13 At 06:39 PM
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Another Document Targeting Uyghur Mac Users
We spotted a new variant of the documents used in the cyber attacks against Uyghur back in February.This variant was first submitted to VirusTotal on April 11 from China. This time it uses IUHRDF,...
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The Fog of Cyber Defence
The Finnish National Defence University has published a 250-page book called The Fog of Cyber Defence. The book discusses cyber warfare, cyber arms race, and cyber defense from a Nordic viewpoint.The...
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Facebook is Testing Tags For "What"
Facebook has gradually added different tags to its "Status" updates.Currently, most users have the ability to tag: who, when and where.Those options could soon include: what. (Roll out is limited at...
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Online Activities Related to Elections in Malaysia
Malaysia's 2013 general elections are scheduled for Sunday, May 5, 2013. Political news coverage is currently inundating all news outlets, including social networking sites, as the country's political...
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Twitter's Password Fails
Let's say you want to hack Jack Dorsey's online banking account. Where to start? His username?Challenging… his online banking username is a secret. But how about his Twitter account?Oh, that's easy....
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Webinar: Monday, May 13th
It's time to schedule another F-Secure Labs webinar!We're trying out Google's "Hangouts On Air" this go-around:Details: F-Secure Labs Threat Report Preview WebinarHope to see you there. On 10/05/13 At...
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F-Secure Labs Webinar: Mobile Threat Report Q1 2013On 13/05/13 At 01:51 PM
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Download: Mobile Threat Report Q1 2013
Our Mobile Threat Report Q1 2013 is now publicly available.All of our past reports are also available in the "Labs" section of f-secure.com. On 15/05/13 At 12:45 PM
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Mac Spyware Found at Oslo Freedom Forum
The Oslo Freedom Forum is an annual event "exploring how best to challenge authoritarianism and promote free and open societies." This year's conference (which took place May 13-15) had a workshop for...
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LulzSec sentencing in UK
LulzSec - the rockband of hacker groups - had three of their six members sentenced today in London.LulzSec made headlines during their "50 days of Lulz" in May-June 2011, during which they attacked...
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BBC News: LulzSec Hacker Interview
BBC News has a 13 minute report that's worth a view.LulzSec hacker: 'Internet is a world devoid of empathy'On 17/05/13 At 12:54 PM
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The Mac spyware discovered at the Oslo Freedom Forum last week is apparently connected to larger espionage efforts — and those efforts look to be connected to India.Yesterday, the folks from Norman...
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Mac Spyware: OSX/KitM (Kumar in the Mac)
There's another case of Backdoor:OSX/KitM.A in the wild.A German-based investigator reached out to us yesterday regarding OSX/KitM. (We wrote about it last week.) KitM stands for "Kumar in the Mac",...
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