We recently heard of Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies. This has earned the company brickbats rather than accolades as they have been lambasted by privacy and human rights organizations. It has been reported that hacking Team has been accused of selling tools and […]

Malware that patches Flash for you after it’s broken in? Sadly, it’s not all about you…in fact, it’s not about you at all. Source: Sophos

Adobe Systems Inc. says its plans to issue a patch on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software that is reportedly being exploited in active attacks. The flaw was disclosed publicly over the weekend after hackers broke into and posted online hundreds of gigabytes of data from Hacking Team, a controversial […]

Remember the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL? Here’s Amazon’s open-source effort to expand our choice of cryptographic sauce… Source: Sophos

The Internet is a fantastic resource for researching the reputation of companies with which you may wish to do business. Unfortunately, this same ease-of-use can lull the unwary into falling for marketing scams originally perfected by spammers: Namely, fake reviews and dodgy search engine manipulation techniques that seek to drown out legitimate, negative reviews in a […]

Here’s the latest episode of our weekly 1-minute security video. Fun with a serious side…enjoy! Source: Sophos