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Android Counterclank Malware Hits Android Market
A nasty piece of malware called Android.Counterclank that Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) said has the highest distribution of any malware this year to date is making the rounds on Android smartphones and tablet computers. Symantec counts anywhere from 1 million to 5 million combined downloads of the malware, spanning 13 different application titles. Android.Counterclank is a variant…
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Emerson Offers Avocent Data Center Planner
Emerson Network Power, a business unit of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) specializing in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, introduced the next generation of Avocent Data Center Planner, a software solution that helps enable data center managers to make informed decisions for the planning and effective management of their data center assets and physical…
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Symantec Warns pcAnywhere Users to Disable Tool
The saga over Symantec’s stolen code took another twist as the company acknowledged that pcAnywhere customers are at risk for man-in-the-middle attacks and new exploits. The breach actually occurred on Symantec servers in 2006, and attackers stole source code to several Norton security products and the pcAnywhere remote access tool, Symantec confirmed last week. At…
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Attackers Using DNS Poisoning to Hijack Website Domains, Divert Traffic
Instead of just launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, cyber-attackers have started hijacking domain names and redirecting traffic from legitimate sites to malicious ones. The hacker group Anonymous recently managed to hijack the Domain Name System record for CBS.com and redirected all traffic to another Web server that displayed an empty directory structure. It appeared as if…
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Threat Update: Malicious QR Codes Pose Risk to iPhone, Android Devices
We’ve all seen those interesting little white barcode boxes with lots of squiggles and lines that urge us to scan them with our cell phones. Called QR codes, these shortcut codes to mobile websites and applications are an elegantly simple way to cram loads of information into users’ devices with total ease. But the same…
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F5 Launches Firewall for Data Centers
F5 Networks has launched a data center firewall designed to protect public-facing websites from cyber-attacks while also competing with other vendors in the space on both traffic capacity and cost. According to Dean Darwin, vice president of worldwide channel sales at F5 Networks, customers are beginning to recognize that the application delivery network is a…