ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

L’accès au site Internet du Sénat a été perturbé en raison d’une attaque par déni de service. La piste d’une vengeance de pirates Turcs liée au projet de loi contre la négation des génocides est évoquée mais non confirmée officiellement.

The vulnerability affects both Mac OS X and Windows users and lets a man-in-the-middle attacker offer harmful software that appears to originate from...

3LM, a unit of Motorola Mobility, has drawn up a set of security and management tools for business users of Android phones.

The datr cookie, which can be used for tracking users, is once again being set on third-party websites with a Facebook social plugin – whether you a...

The upcoming UK Cyber Security Strategy will aim to join up security efforts from the police, intelligence agencies, and industry, according to police and officials involved.

The strategy, which has been pushed back to mid-October,...

newsmaker Organizations must be prepared to defend, attack and revise strategies in evolving security landscape, says Eddie Schwartz, RSA first CSO.

Silk looks to be very fast and about as private as a bathroom stall without a door.

OK, here’s the good stuff about the new Silk Web browser, which Amazon will be embedding in its new Amazon Kindle Fire tablets: From all reports it makes Web-browsing amazing fast on relatively low-end hardware.

The bad news? It does it by watching all, and I mean all, of your Web activity through Amazon’s cloud-based Amazon Web Services.

Even as Apple adds detection to block a Mac OS X malware threat, researchers find new Mac malware posing as a legitimate Flash Player installation pac...

Le piratage de MySQL.com a été exploité pour infecter des visiteurs vulnérables sous Windows avec un code malveillant non reconnu par la majorité des antivirus.

Selon le bloggeur Nik Cubrilovic, Facebook continuerait de suivre la navigation de ses utilisateurs même après que ceux-ci se soient déconnectés du service.

Les correctifs, disponibles avec quelques jours d'avance, s’appliquent à Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Publisher et Windows Media Player.

The single most common complaint I hear about Flash Player is that there are too many updates. But are there really?

Once a user scans the QR code, the code redirects them to a site that will install a Trojan on their Android smart phones.

The growing popularity of Quick Response (QR codes) on smart phones has officially become a new distribution vehicle for malware on Android devices.

According to security researchers at Kaspersky Lab (important disclosure: my employer), hackers are are using QR codes posted on web sites to redirect smart phones to other sites hosting an Android trojan.

Police have been involved in a global operation that saw thousands of illegal pharmaceutical websites taken down in the UK.

UK police, and enforcement officers from government health watchdog the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), arrested 13 people in the UK, and raided 16 addresses, as part of the raids.

===> In many cases the sites selling unlicensed and counterfeit medicines also uploaded Trojans and malware, McMurdie told ZDNet UK. <===

Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla developers are addressing a flaw in SSL encryption that could allow an attacker to decrypt intercepted traffic.

Microsoft said that it would bring out a patch for the flaw in an advisory on Monday.

Microsoft kills botnet that hosted MacDefender scareware

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has shut down a botnet that was investigated for hosting the MacDefender scareware that preyed on Mac OS X users.

The botnet contained about 41,000 computers worldwide and was capable of sending 3.8 billion spam e-mails per day.

After denying allegations that it can track what you’re doing online even if you log out of the social network, Facebook has changed one specifi...

The popular MySQL website served malware to visitors running Windows after it fell victim to a hack, a security company has revealed.

Premium-rate regulator PhonepayPlus has warned that rogue apps are charging smartphone users for services without their knowledge, with Android rather...