Brian Prince

The Murky Origins of Flame Flame, also known by the names Flamer and Skywiper, was at first widely believed to have initially appeared in 2010. However, evidence has mounted that the malware was in existence before then. Kaspersky Lab for example has found that some domains used by Flame for command and control (C&C) were […]

Facebook on May 31 added new security controls for the administrators of the social network site€™s Pages service. The Pages service is used by businesses and organizations for marketing purposes. Now, managers of such pages can give restricted administrator rights to other people. The changes are detailed in Facebook’s Help Center. “We introduced this as […]

U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the use of Stuxnet against Iran as part of an effort to disrupt the country’s nuclear ambitions, according to The New York Times. In a story adapted from an upcoming book by New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger, anonymous sources are quoted as saying that Obama accelerated plans […]

The White House has announced a series of initiatives in partnership with government agencies and the private sector to combat botnets. The initiatives, which were announced May 30 at an event at the White House, are the result of a partnership between the Homeland Security and Commerce Department, the White House Cybersecurity Office and a […]

The United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union is issuing a warning for nations to be on guard for the newly identified Flame malware, according to a report. “This is the most serious [cyber] warning we have ever put out,” Marco Obiso, cyber-security coordinator for the U.N.’s Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union, told Reuters. Also known as Skywiper […]

A New Jersey mayor has been arrested along with his son on charges they conspired to hack a Website calling for the mayor’s ouster as part of a campaign to target the mayor’s critics. Felix Roque, mayor of the Hudson County town of West New York, and his son Joseph Roque were arrested Thursday for […]

Two researchers have proposed an extension to TLS, or transport layer security, as a solution to some of the security challenges facing the Secure Sockets Layer certificate ecosystem. Their proposal comes after a troublesome year for certificate authorities (CAs) during which a number of high-profile CA security breaches shook the IT industry€™s confidence in SSL […]

Mobile malware targeting Google Android devices exploded in the first few months of 2012, according to a new report from McAfee. Nearly 7,000 Android threats were identified and collected through the end of the 2012 first quarter, according to McAfee’s threat report. This represents a more than 1,200 percent increase when compared with the 600 […]

Google is warning Web users infected with the DNSChanger malware that if they do not clean their computer before the FBI’s impending deadline, they may lose access to the Internet.Google said it plans to notify as many as 500,000 users that are still infected with the malware, which was used by a cyber-gang hit in […]

Hacktivists associated with the Anonymous movement leaked 1.7GB of data belonging to the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics online. The Bureau of Justice Statistics collects and publishes data on crime in the United States, including data on cyber-crimes. In a statement on The Pirate Bay accompanying a torrent file for downloading the data, the […]