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FBI Ransomware: Reveton seeks MoneyPak payment in the name of the law

21

Aug

2012

A crime wave of malware that demands money from victims to avoid prosecution by the FBI has been alarming web surfers across America. Victims suddenly find their computer frozen, and an official-looking page, like the one shown below, is displayed in their web browser. The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have received so […]

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Google and EFF propose improvements to HTTPS as GlobalSign releases CA breach report

15

Dec

2011

Certificate authority GlobalSign, who was implicated as having suffered a security breach by the infamous “ComodoHacker”, have released their final report on the incident. **APPLAUSE** Not only is the report thorough and convincing, but it appears that GlobalSign took every action, exactly as they should have, both during and after the incident. The report’s conclusion? […]

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Sophos Security Threat Report Update reveals 2011’s top threats so far

02

Aug

2011

Sophos has just published its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report [PDF]. Highlights of the report include the following: a 60% increase in malware over 2010, with Sophos seeing more than 150,000 new malware samples every day – that is one every 0.5 seconds. 19,000 malicious webpages are now identified daily, with 80% being pages on […]

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