This position over at Technica looks like a great opportunity for any of the more seasoned among us. It requires a masters, 5 years experience, and someone that really knows how to reverse engineer malware. And I can tell this manager knows how to hire the right kind of people … “Required Technical Certifications:...
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Yeah, you read the title right. It’s based on an article I read the other day titled “Scrub Your PC Clean: Remove Malware in 4 Easy Steps” on Gizmodo. The article mostly focused on Windows-based malware caught through web browsing. I’d also say it was probably more than four steps – yeah maybe four...
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Early last week we had a story on a targeted attacks against military contractors using a malicious PDF disguised as a conference CFP. On Friday the threats continued with emails being sent to all 163 participants of a recent Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) event purporting to be a list of the attendees....
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If you haven’t noticed, there have been a lot of attacks against major government contractors lately. As you can imagine this affects many of the infosec pros around DC looking to make a name for themselves. Lockheed, Northrop, Booz, … I’m sure many of us have been affected in one way or another. The...
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This week was awash with new studies that generated a great deal of buzz about what’s right, and what’s not so right, about current security practices. For those of you who haven’t seen the reports yet (or don’t have the desire to read through 90-page documents), here’s a quick breakdown. Releasing its annual Data...
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Addressing the problem of companies not taking insider threats seriously, the “Many Enterprises Still Don’t Recognize Insider Threat, Studies Say” article on DarkReading made some much-needed points about intranets not being the secure entities that many companies believe them to be. While the article’s primary focus is on traditional insider threats—with employees knowingly or...
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Well, it’s finally arrived: A way to hack into consumer routers and DSL modems via malware. Called the “psyb0t,” worm, psyb0t it is the first (documented) piece of malware to focus on attacking home networking technologies. According to DroneBL (a real-time monitor of abusable internet addresses), attackers have used psyb0t to carry out DDoS...
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