High Technology Threat Brief (HTTB) (1)

Governments, and in particular US one, are principal buyers of zero-day vulnerabilities according a report published by Reuters.

It's "a public service on a public connection to other public servers", the operator of RageBooter told Brian Krebs, and if sites don't like getting their socks knocked off in DDoS attacks, they should fix recursive DNS and default DNS server...

Claims are made that the Aurora hackers weren't just Chinese-sponsored hackers bent on messing with Tibetan activists.

Twitter's new two factor authentication system will be welcomed by some users, but ignored by others who will find it a nuisance.

John Hawes argued that what's needed is carefully considered defensive strategies combined with fast responses to new, unforeseen vulnerabilities.

Malware-splosion: 2013 Will be Malware's Biggest Year Ever
PC Magazine
Andreas Marx, CEO of AV-Test, told SecurityWatch that his company has been compiling malware samples since 1984.

In the second technical article of this series, Fraser Howard investigates deeper into the workings of Redkit exploit kit.

APWG issued the new edition of its APWG Global Phishing Survey report that identifies trends and their significance by quantifying the scope of the global phishing problem.

Despite Mandiant's prediction that the release of their report on the attack methodology of the so-called APT1 (or (APT1 cyber espionage group is back to their old tricks http://t.co/335PcWvuaz)...

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force to send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree.

Operation Hangover is the title of a report published by Norman Shark that details a sophisticated cyberattack infrastructure that appears to originate from India, conducted by private threat actors with no evidence of state-sponsorship.

Cyber attacks on America will continue to escalate, according to National Security Director Keith Alexander, speaking to the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit in Washington.

Chinese hackers who breached Google in 2010 are responsible for the recent violation to Google Company’s Surveillance Database according officials revelations.

Malware targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems has been a major trend for the last six months.

Malware researchers receive so many malicious code samples every day that prioritization for deep examination becomes an important part of the analysis process. In some instances, it is easier to decide than others.

In China, Apparently, Hacking Ain't No Thing
Betabeat
Hacking thrives across official, corporate and criminal worlds.

New York Times
The wide world of hacking in China
CNET
China has been cited as allegedly hacking into U.S. government and corporate networks for years now.

ValueWalk
Android Malware Intercepts Text Messages, Forwards to Criminals
The Next Web
A new piece of Android malware has been discovered that can intercept your incoming text messages and forward them on to criminals.

The owner of a jewelry store believes that one or more burglars stuck GPS devices on her car and on her son's car. That, she figures, enabled them to track when her house would likely be empty so they could break in.

"Please help us keep your accounts secure," the urgent memo says.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group, a consortium of digital security companies, released its latest report last week and the results are less than comforting: more brands are being hijacked by cyber-criminals and the number of attacks is rising.