Malware

According to the 9b+ security research blog, the email targeted a member of the Tibetan Youth Congress in India.

The backdoor can steal data, create and delete files, and capture screenshots off a victim's computer.

The incidence of hosting phishing sites has decreased over the past year, but attackers still are finding Canada to be fertile ground to launch attacks, according to an annual report by Websense.

CISOs should instead focus on smarter ways to monitor and head off sophisticated threats, said an IBM keynoter.

Adobe joined Microsoft with a patch of its own for Flash Player.

Users in Vietnam and India were targets of an attack that uses flaws in unpatched versions of Microsoft Office to install a trojan and steal information from compromised machines.

The security company apologized for the mistake and said occurrences of the social networking worm are not rising, and actually continue to diminish.

The Obad trojan marks a rare threat by exploiting previously unknown flaws in the Android operating system. It's not very prevalent, however.