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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? ru in 2008.

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US DoJ indicts Chinese hackers over state-sponsored cyber espionage

Security Affairs

“Zhu and Zhang were members of a hacking group operating in China known within the cyber security community as Advanced Persistent Threat 10 (the APT10 Group).” The post US DoJ indicts Chinese hackers over state-sponsored cyber espionage appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz Appoints Senior Staff

Hunton Privacy

He was formerly an Assistant Director in the Bureau of Competition’s Health Care Services and Products Division, focusing on antitrust enforcement, including anticompetitive practices and mergers involving health care providers and payers, and anticompetitive conduct in the pharmaceutical industry. Department of Justice. and abroad.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

I’m just not convinced that a fingerprint or an image of my face is secure enough. In security we traditionally define the different factors of authentication as something you know, so that could be the username and password, or an answer to a security question. I'm a cyber security professional, I guess.