Prominent cryptographer victim of malware attack related to Belgacom breach

	Prominent cryptographer victim of malware attack related to Belgacom breach | Hackers use a trick to deliver Zeus banking malware
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	German federal prosecutor considers formal NSA investigation Germany's federal prosecutor is considering if there is enough evidence to warrant a formal, criminal investigation into the German government's alleged involvement in the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) data collection program, a spokeswoman said Monday. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Prolexic OVUM White Paper - Delivering effective DDoS protection In new white paper, OVUM Principal Analyst, Security, Andrew Kellett states that not all DDoS mitigation solutions are capable of providing the required level of protection for an organization. Learn how to evaluate mitigation providers against 10 enterprise criteria. Download OVUM White Paper: "Delivering effective DDoS protection" In this Issue Prominent cryptographer victim of malware attack related to Belgacom breach Hackers use a trick to deliver Zeus banking malware Unix: Tracking down ghost accounts Mobile users at risk from lack of HTTPS use by mobile ad libraries, security researchers say The top 5 security threats to watch for in 2014 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CSO40 Security Confab + Awards Conference Register now: CSO Magazine's CSO40 Security Confab On behalf of Bob Bragdon, Publisher of CSO magazine and CSOonline.com, CSO would like to invite you to register for CSO Magazine's spring 2014 conference – CSO40 Security Confab + Awards, being held March 31 – April 2, 2014 outside Atlanta, Georgia. For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.csoconfab.com/ Prominent cryptographer victim of malware attack related to Belgacom breach Belgian cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater had his personal computer infected with malware as the result of a targeted attack that's believed to be related to a security breach discovered last year at Belgian telecommunications group Belgacom. According to him, other cryptographers have also been targeted by the same attackers. Read More Hackers use a trick to deliver Zeus banking malware Hackers found a new way to slip past security software and deliver Zeus, a long-known malicious software program that steals online banking details. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix The 10 "Must-Haves" for Secure Enterprise Mobility. While enterprise mobility brings opportunity for your users and organization, it also invites risk. Users should view this whitepaper as a mobile security framework for their enterprises and a checklist for evaluating enterprise mobility vendors. Download the whitepaper. Read now! Unix: Tracking down ghost accounts Are you confident that all the accounts you manage are still required and still current? Or might some of them be ghost accounts that you should have blocked five years ago? Read More Mobile users at risk from lack of HTTPS use by mobile ad libraries, security researchers say Over the past several months security researchers have found serious vulnerabilities in many mobile advertising libraries that could be exploited to abuse the permissions of Android apps or to execute unauthorized code on users' devices. The risks resulting from those vulnerabilities would be significantly lower if those libraries would use HTTPS, security researchers said. Read More The top 5 security threats to watch for in 2014 The year's barely started, and we've already had enough data breaches at major retailers to make a barter economy seem like a good idea. Unfortunately there are yet more security threats to look forward to in 2014. Here are the biggest ones we anticipate. Read More
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