Spyware News

Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole Addresses the Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute - Thursday, May 23, 2013 Good afternoon, everyone.

"NetChecker is a simple text based software to check internet connectivity problems.

According to the German security company AV-Test, malware has exploded in the past five years to unprecedented levels .

Malicious software programs - commonly called malware - can creep onto an online shopping device without detection from an antivirus program, stealing a consumer's personal information and allowing a criminal to make fraudulent transactions on her behalf.

Security researchers have identified multiple samples of the recently discovered "KitM" spyware for Mac OS X, including one dating back to December 2012 and targeting German-speaking users.

Security researchers have identified multiple samples of the recently discovered "KitM" spyware for Mac OS X, including one dating back to December 2012 and targeting German-speaking users.

PandaLabs , Panda Security 's anti-malware laboratory, has published its Quarterly Report for Q1, analyzing the IT security events and incidents from January through March 2013.

Clicked on a link a friend forwarded to your smartphone? Typed your password while you were in line at the caf? If you answered "yes" to any of the above, you were asking for trouble, and you probably didn't realise just how close you came to being another victim of a security breach.

"Don't open that attachment!" warns Sophos security analyst Graham Cluley. If you get an email appearing to be from world-famous jeweler Tiffany's, saying something like, "Kindly open to see export License and payment invoice attached," it likely contains a malicious Trojan horse, designed to infect and compromise your computer.

Irish security firm Safer-Networking Ltd has announced the release of Spybot +AV 2.1 , a major reinvention of the package which sees the addition of virus protection for the Home and Professional versions .

There's another case of Backdoor:OSX/KitM.A in the wild. A German-based investigator reached out to us yesterday regarding OSX/KitM. KitM stands for "Kumar in the Mac", which is our designation for spyware - related to OSX/Filesteal a.k.a. OSX/HackBack - that is signed using an Apple Developer ID in the name of Rajinder Kumar.

Virtual private networking is a great way to accomplish a number of things, including making sure that your secrets stay your own, protecting against malware attacks, and getting around the geoblocking of audio and video content from networks, labels and basically anyone who wants to restrict your sweet, sweet access.

Restricting the launch of third-party applications enhances the security of corporate workstations and increases employee efficiency.

Plus Nokia Asha's unique selling point, the point of a Google Music service, what Apple needs at WWDC, and more Stealthy Mac OS X spyware that was digitally signed with a valid Apple Developer ID has been detected on the laptop of an Angolan activist attending a human rights conference, researchers said.

They have a shared interest in tackling the myriad established and nascent online threats.

Two operators of alleged tech support scams have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission complaints and give up their ill-gotten gains.

Operators of two alleged tech support scams that charged consumers hundreds of dollars to supposedly fix their computers have settled charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway.

New Mac spyware was discovered earlier this week on a computer at the Oslo Freedom Forum , an annual human rights conference.

Today security firm F-Secure announces the discovery of a new Mac-based spyware program, the latest in what has become a small, but growing trend.