Reports that a trader with UBS has been arrested in connection with a potential two billion dollar `rogue trader' fraud suggest that the banker has been controlling trading accounts to which he should not have had access, says Lieberman Software.
A report just issued showing the infamous Zeus malware as having shot to the number two spot in the malware charts comes as no surprise, says Trusteer.
Research just released shows that almost two-thirds of IT professionals are concerned about security issues associated with the use of personal devices in the workplace and highlights the fact that data in the digital age has become as portable as the devices it is stored on, says Varonis Systems.
Unicode feature misused to infect computers on a payment-per-install basis
“What you see is not what you get,” thanks to a new wave of malware that misuses a special language display feature to trick people into opening supposedly “safe” files. The new exploit misuses features in Unicode – the computing industry’s standard for representing text – to mask executable malware as “safe” files with a .doc or .jpg extension. It has been named "Unitrix" by AVAST Software analysts.
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