Malware

A Windows vulnerability that Microsoft patched back in April continues to be used in targeted attacks against political, industrial and defense organizations.

Thousands of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees had their personal information exposed through a database breach.

Traditional approaches to security breaches on the Internet will no longer work. A multi-vector attack requires a multi-vector security strategy.

Detection rates for exploits against the vulnerability (CVE-2012-1723) are now overtaking attacks abusing a previous widely attacked Java bug (CVE-2012-0507), which was used to spread the widespread Flashback trojan that targeted Mac users.

Many view information sharing as an elusive quest, hampered by various roadblocks. But Georgia Tech researchers want to tear down these hurdles with a new threat intelligence system known as Titan.

Many of today's applications are designed to work over any port, which increases chances they won't be blocked by firewalls.

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