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AutoCAD Malware Targets Industrial Espionage
AutoCAD Malware Targets Industrial Espionage
Historically, AutoCAD malware is very rare, although not completely unheard of – there was an attack last year that targeted users mostly in Peru, for example. A new bug is now making the rounds, targeting these graphics and engineering platforms with exploits targeting old vulnerabilities. The goal is industrial espionage, but it could take a multi-layer infection to do it.
Nov. 26, 2013
Racing Post Breached; Users' Passwords Stolen
Racing Post Breached; Users' Passwords Stolen
Racing Post, a British horse racing, greyhound racing and betting newspaper, announced Sunday that its website had been breached and usernames, first and last names, passwords, email addresses and date of birth have been stolen.
Nov. 25, 2013
NSA Has Hacked 50,000 Computers Globally
NSA Has Hacked 50,000 Computers Globally
New revelations published by the Dutch newspaper NRC indicate that the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) may have infected more than 50,000 computer networks around the world with spyware that it can turn on and off at will remotely.
Nov. 25, 2013
PayPal Vulnerabilities – Just How Serious Were They?
PayPal Vulnerabilities – Just How Serious Were They?
Last week, German security company Vulnerability Lab published details on the Full Disclosure mailing list about a series of bugs it had discovered in PayPal. These were a persistent payment mail encoding vulnerability; a persistent search vulnerability; a persistent POST inject vulnerability; and a China - redirect web vulnerability.
Nov. 25, 2013
i2Ninja Banking Trojan Uses Tor-like P2P Encryption
i2Ninja Banking Trojan Uses Tor-like P2P Encryption
Banking trojans continue to be the scourge of the web, with Zeus, Citadel, Ramnit, Spyeye and others continuing to infect machines on a widespread basis. But a new offering has been uncovered in a Russian cybercrime forum, a malware variant that, until now, has been working incognito – the i2Ninja malware.
Nov. 25, 2013
Cisco’s Microsoft Momentum Continues…
Cisco’s Microsoft Momentum Continues…
The Microsoft ecosystem continues to be an important area of focus with our Cisco Datacenter product...
Nov. 25, 2013
Video: 9 trends for the next decade of games
Video: 9 trends for the next decade of games
Former project director for Ultima Online Starr Long discusses the 'blurring boundaries' of games, toys, interfaces and more in this projection of game trends.
Nov. 25, 2013
Apple acquires studio behind the Kinect motion sensor tech
Apple acquires studio behind the Kinect motion sensor tech
With third-party companies like Occipital looking to add Kinect-like depth detection to the iPad's camera, Apple has chosen to go straight to the source, acquiring the company behind the Kinect's 3D motion-sensing hardware.
Nov. 25, 2013
Blizzard game director apologizes following hyper-sexualization debacle
Blizzard game director apologizes following hyper-sexualization debacle
A game director at Blizzard has been forced to apologize, after stating that it's not his company's place to address the issues of the hyper-sexualization of women in MOBA video games.
Nov. 25, 2013
Video: How accurate is Assassin's Creed IV's piracy portrayal?
Video: How accurate is Assassin's Creed IV's piracy portrayal?
A historian at the University of Texas has started a new video series, in which he looks at how video game worlds based on real-life history fare compared to the real thing.
Nov. 25, 2013
Twitch in a tizzy following inappropriate PS4 livestreams
Twitch in a tizzy following inappropriate PS4 livestreams
Twitch has been forced to heavily moderate streaming content on the newly-launched PlayStation 4 console, after some users have been abusing the video capture functionality to broadcast explicit images.
Nov. 25, 2013
Halo veteran Corrinne Yu makes switch to Naughty Dog
Halo veteran Corrinne Yu makes switch to Naughty Dog
Corrinne Yu, an industry veteran who has headed up studios at Gearbox Software and the Halo team at Microsoft, has made the switch from Xbox to PlayStation, taking up a role at Uncharted studio Naughty Dog.
Nov. 25, 2013