Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

Paul Henry, Forensics and Security Analyst, provides his insights in this September Patch Tuesday Security Briefing.

The recent incident at the State of Virginia website – where prescription records are currently being held for ransom with a demand for a payment of $10 million is not a new scammer methodology. However, historically, scammers keep the ransom payment low to fly under the radar of law enforcement officials, so the demand for [...]

So here you are, an accomplished network administrator… you understand the risks to your enterprise.  You have managed to wrestle local administrator rights away from your user community.  All systems are running current versions of a popular antivirus software.  So your user community can browse the Internet with gleeful abandon.  Think again.  Joe User while [...]

Facebook and Twitter users are receiving bogus messages in attempt to direct unsuspecting users to fake Facebook and Twitter login pages in effort to have the user log in and then steal their account username and password.
Typical Facebook messages used to lure users to fake login pages have included:
“lol i can’t believe these pics got [...]