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• US data security has “no sense”, cyber crime to take over public Cloud: Trend Micro

  The United States has “no sense” about data security while public Cloud adoption is facilitating cyber crime, Trend Micro global CTO, Raimund Genes, has claimed.

• Australian websites caught up in DNS Changer case

  Thousands of computers in Australia may have been affected by the largest botnet, dubbed domain name system (DNS) Changer, according to evidence from Trend Micro.
  

• Security roundup for week ending Nov. 11

  Is there justice in cyberspace? The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week offered hope there is, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/110911-doj-charges-seven-in-massive-252945.html">charging seven individuals</a> with 27 counts of wire fraud and other computer-related crimes in connection with a massive "clickfraud" scheme that was based in Estonia.

• Feds lead biggest botnet takedown ever, end massive clickjack fraud

  The botnet takedown announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice was the biggest in history, according to a security company that worked with authorities to identify the alleged criminals.

• Peer-to-peer update to Zeus Trojan confers resistance to take-downs

  The Zeus financial malware has been updated with P-to-P (peer-to-peer) functionality that makes it much more resilient to take-down efforts and gives its controllers flexibility in how they run their fraud operations.

• Android malware downloads instructions from blog

  Researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a piece of malicious software for Android that receives instructions from an encrypted blog, a new method of communication for mobile malware, according to the company.

• Drive-by download attack on Facebook used malicious ads

  Antivirus vendor Trend Micro has recently detected a drive-by download attack on Facebook that used malicious advertisements to infect users with malware.

• 'Lurid' malware hits Russia, CIS countries

  The latest espionage-related hacking campaign detailed by security vendor Trend Micro is most notable for the country it does not implicate: China.

• Iranians faced mass man-in-the-middle on August 28

  On 28 August Iranian citizens were subjected to a far reaching cyber snooping operation made possible by an attack on Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar.

• Private industry group leaps into the cybercrime fight

  A consortium of eight companies launched a campaign on Tuesday to provide better training for law enforcement agencies in order to tackle cybercrime, which costs the U.K. economy tens of billions of pounds annually.

• Hackers steal Hotmail messages thanks to Web flaw

  Criminals recently spent more than a week siphoning e-mail messages from Hotmail users' accounts, thanks to a programming bug in Microsoft's website.

• Hotmail targeted by zero-day attack

  Hotmail accounts were recently targeted by an attacking against a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Webmail system. The attack is more insidious than some because it executes without user intervention when a malicious email is opened.

• AusCERT 2011: Delegates enjoy cocktail hour

  Exhibitors, guests and speakers took the opportunity to network during the AusCERT cocktail hour on Monday night.

• Antivirus 2011: Digital defenders

  If you haven't bought a new version of your antivirus software in a couple of years, now may be a good time to do so. Malware is evolving faster than ever, and the latest generation of antivirus software is better equipped to handle this rapid pace of change. If your antivirus software is a few years old, it may not be able to defend against this on­­slaught effectively, even if you faithfully download new virus definitions. In recent years, the technology that powers antivirus software has changed dramatically: An antivirus package you purchased a few years ago may be able to stop known viruses and other known malware, but brand-new, as-yet unknown viruses can be more dangerous, and newer products do a much better job of stopping them.

• Porn worm extorts money from 2,500 victims

  A fast-spreading Russian ransom worm that locks people out of their files has found at least 2,500 victims willing to pay up to get back control of their PCs, researchers have discovered.