Malware

One of the world's largest spam botnets, responsible for as much as a third of all unwanted mail sent as recently as last week, is finally offline, according to security firm FireEye.

Considered to be one of the biggest weapons in the fight against cyber crime, security intelligence should also be backed by an arsenal of security layers.

Mozilla has issued patches for 14 vulnerabilities, four which are deemed "critical," in the latest edition of its Firefox browser.

The active pursuit of online criminals by authorities serves a valuable purpose, but often it ends up netting lesser fish and doesn't complete the entire equation of what is needed to battle today's slick adversaries.

McAfee co-president, Michael DeCesare, stopped by the SC Magazine offices to discuss the advancements in the threat landscape.

ETW (Event Tracing for Windows) is pretty awesome. You can do all kinds of crazy cool stuff with it. For example, imagine you’ve just exploited your target to find the CFO is using IE to browse to the companies internal ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system. Showing the executives that you’ve got access to the financials […]

Security researchers said Tuesday they have come across a new strain of espionage malware that has successfully infected 800 different organizations this year in the Middle East to steal information and spy on communications.