Seven Charged With Clickjacking IRS, Apple Links to Tune of $14 Million (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:Seven Charged With Clickjacking IRS, Apple Links to Tune of $14 Million — Seven Eastern European men have been charged in New York with operating a clickjacking scheme that infected more than 4 million computers in order to hijack surfers trying to get to the iTunes store or the IRS.
Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe — Diagram of the Duqu malware, courtesy of Symantec. — A little more than one year after the infrastructure-destroying Stuxnet worm was discovered on computer systems in Iran, a new piece of malware using some of the same techniques …
Apple Focused on Advancing iOS Metaphors to a Higher Level (Jack Purcher/Patently Apple)
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:Apple Focused on Advancing iOS Metaphors to a Higher Level — On August 11, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the possible next chapters for Apple’s iOS. Apple’s patent application focuses on advancing iOS metaphors to a higher level.
DHS Fears a Modified Stuxnet Could Attack U.S. Infrastructure (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:DHS Fears a Modified Stuxnet Could Attack U.S. Infrastructure — One year after the discovery of a sophisticated worm that was used to attack centrifuges in Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told Congress it fears the same attack could now be used against critical infrastructures in the [...]
Appeals Court: No Hacking Required to Be Prosecuted as a Hacker (David Kravets/Threat Level)
David Kravets / Threat Level:Appeals Court: No Hacking Required to Be Prosecuted as a Hacker — Employees may be prosecuted under a federal antihacking statute for taking computer files that they were authorized to access and using them in a manner prohibited by the company, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Report: Stuxnet Hit 5 Gateway Targets on Its Way to Iranian Plant (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:Report: Stuxnet Hit 5 Gateway Targets on Its Way to Iranian Plant — Graphic showing clusters of Stuxnet infections during targeted attacks launched in 2009 and 2010. Courtesy of Symantec. — Attackers behind the Stuxnet computer worm focused on targeting five organizations in Iran …
Hacker Challenging Court Order to Surrender Computer Gear to Sony (David Kravets/Threat Level)
David Kravets / Threat Level:Hacker Challenging Court Order to Surrender Computer Gear to Sony — Hacker George Hotz must surrender his computer gear to Sony next week — The lawyer representing a hacker who published the first major PlayStation 3 jailbreak on the internet said Sunday he would challenge …
A tool bar in Internet Explorer shows the security level of my computer as 4 for 10. How can I increase this?
I like to know whether this is normal or I have to increase my computer’s security level. What I must do to increase the security level?
Google DoubleClick Caught Serving Malicious Ad (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:Google DoubleClick Caught Serving Malicious Ad — DoubleClick, the Google-owned ad technology, has been distributing malware in an online ad served through a number of websites, according to the security researcher who says he discovered the attack. — The malware infects users who visit …
I got a Grosker P2P low level threat virus on my computer and CA security has not removed it?
I got a Grosker P2P low level threat virus on my computer, and CA security has not removed it after running the anti virus program several times. How do I get CA to remove it? Also is there a better way to prevent from getting these viruses, or do I just have to remove them [...]
