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• 65+ websites compromised to deliver malvertising

  19.06.2013

  At least 65 different sites serving ads that ultimately led to malware have been spotted by Zscaler researchers.

• Account takeover attempts have nearly doubled

  17.06.2013

  ThreatMetrix announced its Cybercrime Index, a series of Web fraud data aggregated from 1,500 customers, 9,000 websites and more than 1.7 billion cyber events.

• Eight charged for hacking global financial institutions

  13.06.2013

  Eight alleged members of an international cybercrime, money laundering and identity theft conspiracy have been federally charged in New Jersey with a scheme to use information hacked from customer accounts held at more than a dozen banks, brokerage firms, payroll processing companies and government agencies in an attempt to steal at least $15 million from U.S.

• Researches test resilience of P2P botnets

  12.06.2013

  Following increased efforts by a number of companies and organizations, the takedown on botnet C&C servers is now a pretty regular occurrence and cyber crooks have reacted by decentralizing the communication between bots and their controllers.

• U.S. Veterans Affairs Dept. repeatedly targeted by foreign hackers

  06.06.2013

  Conflicting claims were heard at Tuesday's hearing of the House Veterans’ Affairs oversight and investigations subcommittee, leaving open the question on whether the Veterans Affairs Department has been repeatedly breached and information from its networks stolen.

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The security of WordPress plugins

Posted on 18 June 2013.  |  Checkmarx’s research lab identified that more than 20% of the 50 most popular WordPress plugins are vulnerable to common Web attacks, such as SQL Injection.

Information security executives need to be strategic thinkers

Posted on 17 June 2013.  |  George Baker, the Director of Information Security at Exostar, talks about the challenges in working in a dynamic threat landscape, offers tips for aspiring infosec leaders, and more.

Large orgs in denial about own security breaches?

Posted on 14 June 2013.  |  Over two thirds (66%) of large organizations said they either had not experienced a security incident in the last 12-18 months or were unsure if they had.

Vulnerability scanning with PureCloud

Posted on 12 June 2013.  |  nCircle PureCloud is a cloud-based network security scanning product built upon the companies' vulnerability and risk management system IP360.

Reactions from the security community to the NSA spying scandal

Posted on 11 June 2013.  |  Read on for comments on this scandal that Help Net Security received from a variety of security professionals and analysts.