A cyber attack breached the Los Angeles Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites point-of-sale systems for several months last year.
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Security software firm shows prototype system designed to help carriers weed out bad apps, as well as security risks.
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For the second time in two years, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts says hackers accessed its computer systems, stealing sensitive information, including customer payment card data.
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At RSA, most heads are in the cloud with everyone from Symantec to IBM delivering new cloud-based security solutions.
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Information is gold and cyber villains are getting more aggressive in their attempts to steal it. Data theft requires new ways of thinking, says Symantec CEO Enrique Salem at RSA.
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Symantec's 'State of Enterprise Security' report finds that 100% of surveyed companies experienced "cyber losses," with an average loss of $2 million each in 2009.
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According to Symantec, phishers are using fake auction marketing tools to target victims.
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PandaLabs security researchers this week notified users that a fake virus alert was inundating Facebook walls in an attempt to get users to download bogus antivirus software.
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The anti-virus software wrongly classified Spotify program files as malign.
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Symantec security researchers found that 33 of the top 100 search results from "Massachusetts senate race results" took users to malicious sites.
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A Symantec white paper looks at the root cause of anti-virus false positives.
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The company's Endpoint Protection Manager server product is marking signature updates issued in 2010 as out of date.
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Backdoor.Tidserv.I!inf is a detection for legitimate system driver files that have been modified by Backdoor.Tidserv to load other malicious components.
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Bloodhound.Exploit.287 is a heuristic detection for files attempting to exploit the Adobe Illustrator Encapsulated Postscript File Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability.
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Symantec describes the Trojan.Vundo!gen1 threat as "very low." It is a heuristic detection used to detect threats associated with the Trojan.Vundo family on Windows-based PCs.
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Packed.Generic.271 is a heuristic detection for files that may have been obfuscated or encrypted in order to conceal them from antivirus software.
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Bloodhound.Exploit.286 is a heuristic detection for files attempting to exploit the Microsoft Internet Explorer 'Style' Object Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
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Suspicious.Stealers is a detection technology designed to detect entirely new malware threats without traditional signatures. This technology is aimed at detecting malicious software that has been intentionally mutated or morphed by attackers.
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iPhoneOS.Ikee.B is a worm that spreads through jailbroken iPhones by using the default SSH password.
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W32.Pykspa.E is a worm that spreads through Skype Instant Messenger and sends confidential information to a remote location.
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