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200,000 webpages compromised to lead visitors to fake AV sites: DHS Infrastructure Highlights March 7th

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

In the past several months, mass infections were not uncommon, and now security experts believe they found another one. Websense found 30,000 unique Web sites are currently compromised to redirect visitors to sites that promote fake antivirus software. A total of 200,000 Web pages, part of the 30,000 sites, are compromised, with the campaign apparently [...]

McAfee hacker says Medtronic insulin pumps vulnerable to attack: DHS Infrastructure Highlights March 3rd

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Some Medtronic Inc. insulin pumps are vulnerable to a hacking attack that could let someone break into the devices from hundreds of feet away, disable security alarms, and dump insulin directly into diabetics’ bloodstreams, according to a computer-security researcher at McAfee Inc. The McAfee researcher said he can remotely control several types of Medtronic pumps. [...]

Microsoft releases security update for DoS issue in ASP.NET: DHS Open Source Infrastructure Report Jan. 4th

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

Microsoft rushed to release an out-of-band security update to resolve a denial-of-service (DoS) issue that affected ASP.NET versions 1.1 and later on all supported variants of the .NET framework. A large number of Web platforms are affected by the hash collision problem, but the company was among the first to act on it. The MS11-100 [...]

Kaspersky claims ‘smoking code’ linking Stuxnet and Duqu: DHS Open Source Report Jan 3rd.

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab claimed to have found proof that the writers of the Stuxnet and Duqu malware are one and the same, and are warning of at least three new families of advanced malware potentially in circulation, The Register reported December 30. The chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab said that researchers had examined [...]

Busted! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps: DHS Infrastructure Open Source Report December 1st

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Malware targeting Android devices continues to surge, according to a new report from McAfee, pushing 2011 to become the busiest year in history for mobile and general malware. The amount of malware infecting Android devices during the third quarter grew almost 37 percent from the second quarter, according to McAfee’s Third-Quarter Threats Report. Android’s growing [...]

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