Hosting providers around the world are seeing a massive increase in brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites. Attackers are looking to gain access to and compromise accounts, but failing that, they are slowing down their targets or even rendering them unavailable as they exhaust the sites’ resources. Melbourne Continue Reading

Microsoft has pulled the plug on a buggy security update released as part of Patch Tuesday earlier this week. The issue first came to light a couple of days ago when some PCs in Brazil were rendered unbootable after installing update 2823324. Microsoft has since addressed the issue in a Continue Reading

A security consultant has demonstrated how a specially developed Android app can be used to take control of a commercial aircraft. Presenting at the Hack in the Box security forum in Amsterdam, Hugo Teso has demonstrated how an app he has developed can extract important information from aircraft systems, and Continue Reading

Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have identified a spam message campaign on Skype that spreads a piece of malware with Bitcoin mining capabilities. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency based on an open-source, peer-to-peer internet protocol and currently trading at over $130 per unit making it an attractive investment for legitimate currency Continue Reading

Security firm Sophos has asked that its customers install version 3.7.8.2 of the Web Protection Appliance immediately. At the end of February, staff at security firm SEC Consult discovered vulnerabilities in the product’s web-based user interface. Sophos has closed the security holes in the latest version. The vulnerabilities allow attackers Continue Reading