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"The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI were granted unprecedented authority this week to seize control over a criminal botnet that enslaved millions of computers and to use that power to disable the malicious software on infected PCs."

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"This is a follow-up post to ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Malware Link Detection in which we will highlight a new capability within ModSecurity v2.6 that allows for removal of data within response bodies."

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"More and more of today's web application attacks are leveraging multiple weaknesses, vulnerabilities and attack methods in order to achieve a desired exploitation outcome. It is becoming more and more difficult to neatly place an attack into one specific container (such as XSS, SQL Injection, etc...). These are blended attacks."

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"Successful Attacks from Automated Malware"

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IBM today released results from its annual X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk Report, highlighting that public and private organizations around the world faced increasingly sophisticated, customized IT security threats in 2010.

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We often have requests on mobile malware statistics and although statistics are only an imperfect representation of reality, this is what we can share.

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If you paid attention to the news this week, you'll know that there were a bunch of Android apps pulled from the Android Market because they contained malware. There were over 50 infected applications - these apps were copies of "legitimate" apps from legitimate publishers that were modified to include two root exploits and a rogue application downloader.

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We are pretty busy these days with malicious samples on Android. You probably haven’t missed DroidDream (Android/DrdDream.A!tr) which trojaned several applications on the Android Market and several blog posts on the matter

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Google has just pulled 21 popular free apps from the Android Market. According to the company, the apps are malware aimed at getting root access to the user's device, gathering a wide range of available data, and downloading more code to it without the user's knowledge.

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Every day, we see more reports about malware in the Android Market. This time three developers known as MYOURNET, Kingmall2010, and we20090202, possibly the same person, were offering a number of Android apps for free download.

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It's an "important, non-security update" that restricts "AutoRun entries in the AutoPlay dialog to only CD and DVD drives".

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The venture capital arm of web search giant Google has joined the latest round of funding for Dasient, a Web security start-up founded by a pair of ex-Googlers.

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Postmortem report looks at lessons learned from the Conficker Working Group's efforts to keep potentially massive and damaging botnet at bay

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Two researchers have discovered a way of compromising pretty much any computer using nothing more nefarious than an Android handset and a USB cable.

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Smartphones running Android try to prevent the sort of viruses and Trojans that plague PCs by carefully walling off which of the phones’ features and data applications can access. But one team of researchers has demonstrated that a clever piece of malware can listen through the walls–literally.

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During 2000 and 2001, Ph.D. student Niels Provos would occasionally drive from the University of Michigan across the border into Canada and spend the weekend working on an open-source cryptography project that would end up becoming one of the most widely used network security technologies ever: OpenSSH.

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As my colleague Rich Baldry pointed out earlier, Apple officially launched the Mac App Store today with their release of OS X 10.6.6. The App Store provides undeniable benefits to users who wish to easily find new programs and reduce the number of companies they share their credit card details with.

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Trend Micro today announced Trend Micro™ Mobile Security, new software designed to help protect Android-powered mobile devices against cyber-attacks.

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"A Trojan capable of stealing data from infected Android smartphones, and bundled with botnet-style functionality, has appeared in China."

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"One thing a lot of security researchers have been predicting for years is rise in mobile malware. However, due to mobile phones with low power, a lot of operating systems, closed environments and many other reasons we haven’t seen any significant mobile malware until this year.

And just in time for 2011 a new trojan for Android has been found by a company called Lookout. While Android trojans have been very popular, this one was pretty advanced and that is why it caught everyone’s attention."

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