Symantec hacker to release Norton code Tuesday

This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow," Yama Tough posted via Twitter.

In the past week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails. The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers.


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IBM Attacks The Complexity Of Security With Identity Intelligence

ARMONK, N.Y., Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new identity intelligence breakthrough designed in IBM labs to provide corporations with a far more sophisticated approach to managing the information employees can access.

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FBI Warns of Coordinated Malware and DDoS Attacks Designed to Drain Bank Accounts

The FBI is warning the public about a cyber-crime ring that not only steals banking credentials but also launches a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the victim’s financial institution as a diversion.

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MICROSOFT GULF COMMUNITY BLOG

MICROSOFT GULF COMMUNITY BLOG

Malware hides behind DWORD formatted IP addresses

Internet users know what a domain name is, and many of them are aware of the fact that it is a "translation" of a dotted decimal IP address. But how many of them know that there are other formats that a domain name can be presented in?

This poorly known fact has occasionally been taken advantage of by cyber scammers and malware pushers, and another instance of this approach has recently been spotted by Zscaler researchers.



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Apple MacBook batteries found vulnerable to malware

Researcher says Apple laptop microcontroller chips are shipped with default passwords that, once discovered, can be used as a hiding spot for malware

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How Attackers Use Search Engines and How You Can Fight Back!

We’re seeing a fast-growing trend in the hacking community that, sadly, many aren’t noticing: search engines can be turned into tools for attackers in numerous ways. What can businesses do to fight back?

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ATM Hacking Video - Barnaby Jack Demonstrates ATM Hacking at Black Hat USA 2010

The presentation "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines" was originally on the schedule at Black Hat USA 2009 but the talk was pulled at the last minute. This year it was on! Videos of Barnaby Jack demonstrating both local and remote attacks and a multi-platform ATM rootkit

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Microsoft posts $250K reward for Rustock botnet herders

Microsoft upped the ante on Monday in its months-long battle against the Rustock botnet by posting a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the hackers who controlled the malware.

It was the first time Microsoft used its malware bounty program since February 2009, when it offered the same amount for the people responsible for the fast-spreading Conficker worm

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Zeus Banking Trojan Hits Android Phones

The Trojan spyware application known as Zitmo, which is designed to steal people's financial data, has now been altered to target devices running the Android mobile operating system.

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Microsoft and FireEye give inside story of Rustock botnet shutdown

The team behind the shutdown of the Rustock botnet have been giving details of how they were able to identify and take out the key command servers behind the network, and the legal precedent the case has set.

The Rustock botnet was responsible at one stage for more than half of the world's spam; its demise last week has cut global junk email levels significantly. It is made up of more than one million PCs which were infected over a period of years and remain so, with the possibility it could still be reactivated if any backup systems remain.

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Analytical Brief: RSA Breach

This brief details NSS Labs assessment of the recent RSA breach and provides some important points that need to be taken into consideration by enterprises needing to protect critical information.

On Thursday, March 17, 2011, RSA’s Executive Chairman Art Coviello wrote in an open letter on the company’s website and published in their 8-K SEC filing that hackers had mounted an “extremely sophisticated cyber attack” that has put at risk its SecurID product.

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RSA: Cyberattack could put customers at risk

government and bank employees, was stolen during an "extremely sophisticated cyberattack," putting customers relying on them to secure their networks at risk, the company said today

"Recently, our security systems identified an extremely sophisticated cyberattack in progress being mounted against RSA," Executive Chairman Art Coviello, wrote in an open letter to customers, which was posted on the company's Web site.

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The week of Forefront !

This week of December Microsoft has released 2 of Forefront Products to RTM

1--RTM: Microsoft Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC) 2010

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2-RTM : Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

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Microsoft vs. McAfee: How free antivirus outperformed paid

Nice Article to Read

How effective is free antivirus software?

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Cyber criminals cash in on Korea clashes!!!!!!

Cyber criminals are already attempting to cash in on yesterday's clashes between North and South Korea, according to Trend Micro.

The security company reports that within several hours of the cross-border incident, search results related to the subject of the clash, had been poisoned by scammers

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Microsoft just doesn’t get it…. Security is about diversity

What do you think here ? are you with this report or you have another ideas ?
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Microsoft recently started installing its Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) free antivirus product via the Operating System update mechanism to computers which don’t already have an antivirus installed. Basically Microsoft is saying they are worried about the security of its users and they need to make sure they are protected. Perhaps Microsoft is trying to position itself as a provider of secure Operating Systems given the market perception of Linux, Apple and potentially Google as having more secure alternatives to Windows OS, but that’s a different story.

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Cyber crime: The rats that gain access by the click of a mouse

When Iran took the unusual step of announcing that its Bushehr nuclear power plant had been infected by a piece of malicious software,

Concern had been growing for months over the potential impact of Stuxnet, a new highly sophisticated computer worm that had been targeting the programs at the heart of core industrial operating systems around the world. What particularly worried the security community was that Stuxnet was the first example of a computer program designed to cause serious damage to the physical world.

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Nearly Two-Thirds Of Companies Have Been Breached In The Past Year, Study Says

IT security becoming a higher priority in many organizations, CompTIA reports

Sixty-three percent of U.S. organizations have experienced at least one security incident or breach during the past year, according to a new study released today.

Almost half of the breached organizations classified the situation as "serious" -- meaning there was a financial threat, potential damage to the organization's reputation, or other business-critical problem, according to the Computing Technology Industry Association's (CompTIA's) 8th Annual Global Security Trends Study.

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Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Release Candidate

Below the link for Microsoft Endpoint Protection 2010 Release Candidate ,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ff182914.aspx