ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

California-based hosting provider InMotion has suffered a compromise that resulted in the defacement of thousands of home pages of websites hosted on their infrastructure, which were allegedly set to serve malware.

SecurityByte 2011 is the India's largest security conference.

The event features over 30 talks with 3 parallel tracks, challenging War games and thought-provoking panel discussions.

With the popularity of the WordPress blogging platform, security researchers here at Websense Security Labs are sure to sit up and take note of any reported zero-day threats affecting the platform itself or the plugins used by blog masters.

27 of a 100 tested Google Chrome extensions have been found vulnerable to data (passwords, history, etc.) extraction attacks though specially crafted malicious websites or by attackers on public WiFi networks.

Security researchers have recently discovered a new rootkit that targets computers' BIOS, making the infection harder to detect and eradicate, and persist even if the hard drive is physically replaced.

"I forward this file to you for review. Please open and view it," says simply the email that is thought to have been the means of deploying the backdoor that resulted in the massive RSA breach in March.