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Nitro malware attack targets industrial companies, relies on social engineering

01

Nov

2011

Symantec published a paper today titled “The Nitro Attacks: Stealing Secrets from the Chemical Industry.” The paper details research they did into a recent series of targeted attacks on industrial companies. This “nitro” attack has an interesting blend of malware techniques that does show some ingenuity. It used a socially engineered email message with a […]

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Top journalists’ email passwords made public, as scandal impacts over 200,000

26

Oct

2011

Repeat after me: You should not use the same password on multiple websites. That’s an important lesson that thousands of bloggers are having to learn the hard way, after an extraordinary story broke in Sweden that involves Twitter, politics, password security and allegations that members of the national media were being spied upon. Here’s the […]

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Apple releases OS X 10.7.2 and iOS 5 with enormous security patch

13

Oct

2011

Apple have released updated versions of OS X Lion (10.7.2), Snow Leopard (Security Update 2011-006), iOS (5), Numbers for iOS (1.5) and Pages for iOS (1.5) to resolve numerous security issues. Beginning with OS X 10.7.2/Security Update 2011-006 for OS X 10.6 there are 75 known vulnerabilities that are fixed with these updates. Most could […]

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