Articles by eSecurityPlanet Staff

Security Spend Outpacing the Rest of IT

High profile breaches and mobile devices are driving IT security spending.

Enterprises Need Better Security Strategies Now

Security threats are too pervasive, persistent and costly to think about IT security after the fact, according to Ernst & Young.

GFI Upgrades Its Business Class Offering

The new version adds enhancements to ease of use and deployment.

Security Flaw Found in Diebold Voting Machines

The attack has been demonstrated by researchers from the Vulnerability Assessment Team at the Argonne National Laboratory.

Skype for iOS Gets Security Update

Version 3.5.84 patches a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to access a victim's contact list.

Former Countrywide Employee Jailed for Data Theft

Rene Rebollo Jr. was sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution.

Minneapolis Hospitals Acknowledge Security Breach

A laptop containing patients' personal data was stolen from a car parked at a local restaurant.

Leading Botnets Have Infected Over 20 Million PCs

More than 20 million computers are infected by Conficker, TDSS, Zeus and Koobface, according to Kaspersky Lab.

Symantec Warns of Surge in Polymorphic Malware

Seventy-two percent of all e-mail borne malware in September was identified as generic polymorphic malware variants.

Hackers Pose as Office Printers to Deliver Malware

Symantec is warning of malicious attachments disguised as scans being e-mailed automatically from printers.

Microsoft Disables Kelihos Botnet

The botnet, also known as Waledac 2.0, comprised about 41,000 infected computers worldwide.

Hackers Publish Goldman Sachs CEO's Personal Data

A group calling themselves CabinCr3w took credit for the posting.

InMotion Hosting Hit by Cyber Attack

On Sunday morning, a hacker defaced hundreds of thousands of sites hosted on InMotion's servers.

Hackers Take Down Al-Qaeda Web Sites

Chat forum Al-Shamukh and secondary site Al-Fidaa were hit by denial of service attacks.

Indian Official Web Sites Hacked

Seventy-five sites belonging to Indian organizations, government bodies, universities and police were compromised.

MySQL.com Hacked

The site redirected visitors to malware-laden Web sites for most of Monday morning.

Mac OS X Trojan Poses as Flash Installer

The Trojan deactivates some network security features, and sends information about the infected Mac to a remote server.

USA Today Twitter Account Hacked

The account was compromised by the same hackers who recently hit Fox News' and NBC News' Twitter feeds.

PostgreSQL Gets Security Updates

The updates close a security hole that resulted in weakened passwords.

Harvard University Web Site Hacked

The site was defaced by hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army.

Anonymous Hackers Release NYPD Officer's Personal Info

The data was published in response to the officer's recent use of pepper spray during a protest.

Codenomicon Warns of Bluetooth Security Flaws

The company found critical security issues in every handsfree kit it tested.

Trend Micro Details 'Lurid' Cyber Attacks

The attacks have compromised 1,465 computers in 61 different countries.

F-Secure, Sophos Find New Mac Malware

The new Trojan is disguised as a PDF file.

TransUnion Warns of Mobile ID Theft Scam

SMS messages and voicemails ask mobile phone users to call in and reactivate their credit cards.