Hacking lessons learned: how to cover your digital ass
Mat Honan got owned last year and it sucked, but you can still learn his lesson.
Mat Honan got owned last year and it sucked, but you can still learn his lesson.
We may now know who is behind the Flashback trojan, one of the biggest Mac viruses ever.
Android malware has reached a new, dangerous high -- at least if you believe F-Secure.
Sometimes it's hard to imagine just how contagious a botnet can be, and then sometimes you see them from space. Security researchers at F-Secure created this look at ZeroAccess botnet infections today, across the United States and the world.
A purported Iran scientist working for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran e-mailed an SOS to F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen this weekend, saying the AEOI was under a cyber attack.
Hypponen, who is well-regarded in the security community, …
Apple’s Siri feature may be good for some casual fun, but it’s bad for company security.
That’s according to F-Secure Vice President Maria Nordgren, who calls Apple’s iPhone and iPad voice assistant a major security liability for businesses, technology site …
While security experts are still getting to the bottom of Flame‘s true capacities, recent findings suggest the malware is one of the most perplexing and complicated programs of its kind.
Flame is the name given to a particularly formidable bit …
Stop being lazy and run Software Update already, Mac users. Antivirus company Intego has identified a new form of the Flashback Trojan that is infecting Apple computers through the same Java vulnerability because you’re too “busy” to update your software.…
Apple released a second update to its form of Java today that will clean up “the most common variants” of the Flashback Trojan affecting Mac computers.
The Java update will not only clean up these variants, but will also disable …
Security company F-Secure released a tool today to automate the detection and clean-up of the Flashback Trojan. The virus has been infecting Mac computers, which are generally mistaken as impervious to viruses.
The tool can be downloaded from F-Secure’s website …
As Apple grows, so will the number of viruses that can affect its systems. Today, it issued a Java update to keep one of these viruses, the Flashback Trojan, at bay.
Flashback is a type of malware that is transferred …
Just got a new Macbook, iPad or other Apple gizmo for Christmas? A new e-mail scam is targeting you.
Cyber criminals are sending around a very official looking e-mail asking Apple users to update billing information, according to Intego, an …
Over $10 million will be intercepted by cyber criminals this holiday season, as consumers turn toward the Internet for their presents.
Online shopping around the holidays has increased 10 percent since the same time in 2010, to around $30.9 billion …