Written by Neil Stinchcombe | 10 October 2010

The ZeuS malware is coming of age and the infections are going to get a lot worse says Trusteer, the secure browsing services specialist.  ZeuS malware has already been pushed extensively to users of Web 2.0 and/or social networking sites plus services such as Facebook, Twitter and, most recently, to users of the business social networking site, LinkedIn. Malware is also being modified by cybercriminals using coding toolkits to attack smartphone users. Recent postings by our IT security colleagues at S21sec about ZeuS targeting smartphone users are just the tip of the iceberg when considering the potential of these attacks.

Written by Darshna Kamani | 09 October 2010

• Strong leadership in UK  deepens Tufin’s  footprint and highlights the company’s global momentum

Tufin Technologies, the market leading provider of Security Lifecycle Management solutions, today announced Robert Civil as Regional Director UK and Ireland, who brings with him over 15 years of IT security leadership and sales experience.  Robert has previously held senior positions at Check Point, Sygate, Symantec and most recently at SecureWorks and is adept at driving the growth of company revenues and improving team performance.

Written by Darshna Kamani | 07 October 2010

Enter: Amichai Shulman, CTO of Imperva:

“This is the latest in a series of attacks against ACS: law. It started last a couple of weeks ago with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attack against them, as well as a site defacement. And now their email database has been published online. In general we've seen cases where the victim was a DDoS target, only to later find that the attackers were really using the DDoS as a diversion to help with the real goal – data theft.  However, I don't think this was the case here. Hackers had one point in mind - to cripple the services of the law firm, to disrupt business services and cause humiliation.