Vigilance can report that Norbain will be using IFSEC 2012 to officially launch their new professional service offering, Norbain Service Plus. Designed to compliment installers own skill sets, Service Plus offers a range of services that can be used to reduce the risk of installations, minimise time spent on site by engineers and make new technologies, such as IP Surveillance, more accessible.
Manchester UK and Boston USA: Commenting on Microsoft's decision to issue an out-of-band patch for a critical Windows zero-day Windows flaw that allows remote code execution, Avecto says that the flaw is notable because it only affects users logged in when using an Admin(istrator) account.
Biggest Security Threats: Malware on the Mac, mobile threats, social networks new stealth channel, targeted attacks, and cyberwar in the Middle East
London: First ever ‘State of the Threats Report’ released later this week predicts more malware on Macs, increase in cyber warfare in the Middle East and social networks used increasingly for stealth attacks. AlienVault, creator of OSSIM, the de facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), has launched its first ‘State of the Threats Report’, which brings together information from 18,000 security professionals around the world and the expertise from the Alien Labs, to provide the definitive overview of the IT security threats facing the world today.
London: Trusteer Intelligence researchers have discovered a clever new use of the Citadel malware platform (a descendent of the Zeus Trojan) to deliver code ransomware that poses as the US Department of Justice and highjacks victims’ computers. This ransomware, named Reveton, freezes the compromised machine’s operating system and demands a $100 payment to unlock it. Reveton was observed a few weeks ago being used as a standalone attack, but has now been coupled with the Citadel platform. This is another example of financial malware expanding beyond online banking fraud and being used as a launch pad for other types of cyber-attacks. Citadel is able to target employees to steal enterprise credentials, and in this example targets victims directly to steal money from them, instead of their financial institution.
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