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From Tech Republic: The Washington Post reports in Defense official discloses cyberattack: The most significant breach of US military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a US military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008. A foreign intelligence agency managed to place malware on a USB flash drive that [...]

From Dark Reading: Adobe’s Reader and Acrobat PDF applications have been hit by a new attack exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in the pervasive tools. So far the exploit has been used mostly in targeted attacks, but researchers say it could soon spread now that the cat is out of the bag. Adobe late yesterday issued [...]

From SecurityFocus: The cybercriminals behind the Zeus botnet used Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) to host the central server used to control a portion of the compromised machines, security firm CA stated on Thursday. The company found that infected machines would contact a server hosted in Amazon’s cloud to download updates and additional functionality to [...]

From Dark Reading: Keyloggers and spyware are the most commonly occurring attacks in companies that suffer major data breaches, according to a report published today by Verizon Business. The new report, “2009 Supplemental Data Breach Investigations Report: An Anatomy of a Data Breach,” offers a look at the 15 most common security attacks and how [...]

From Taranfx: Who was that someone shouting loud that only Jailbreaking makes iPhone insecure?  We now have a new App that makes even an UnModified/Virgin iPhone leak personal data like you have never seen before. A Swiss iPhone developer has unveiled a new application that is capable of harvesting huge amounts of personal data from [...]

From Dark Reading’s SophosLabs Insights: The latest iPhone worm is much more malicious than the last one. Rather than the Ikee worm’s trick of changing your wallpaper to a (for some disturbing) image of 1980s pop star Rick Astley, the Duh worm hijacks your jailbroken iPhone, turning it into part of a botnet. As if [...]

I’ve seen this around a few places and finally decided to post it.  After having my WoW account hacked twice, I hope they hang this guy by his fingernails.   From Dark Reading: For the first time, a hacker has been arrested in the U.K. for stealing players’ identities, skills, weapons, and virtual money in an [...]

I found an interesting article on Tech Republic that I wanted to pass along. In the above “60 Minutes” video, correspondent Steve Kroft spoke with former and current US government officials and private-sector security about the nation’s vulnerability to cyber attack. “If I were an attacker and I wanted to do strategic damage to the [...]

From ZDnet: Security researchers have stumbled upon a new piece of ransomware that blocks an infected computer from accessing the Internet until a fee is paid via SMS (text message). According CA researcher Zarestel Ferrer, the ransomware file is bundled with a program called uFast Download Manager.  Once a machine is infected, a message is [...]

From US-CERT: US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via phishing email messages that appear to come from the Social Security Administration. The messages indicate that the users’ annual Social Security statements may contain errors and instruct users to follow a link to review their Social Security statement. If users click this [...]