Lucian Constantin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucian Constantin

Article | 10/05/2013 Academic institutions urged to take steps to prevent DNS amplification attacks

Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) at...

Article | 9/05/2013 Adobe warns customers of unpatched critical flaw in ColdFusion

Adobe has warned users of its ColdFusion application server platform of a critical vulnerability that could give unauthorized users access to sensitiv...

Article | 9/05/2013 Name.com forces customers to reset passwords following security breach

Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that...

Article | 8/05/2013 Highly critical vulnerability fixed in Nginx Web server software

The development team behind the popular Nginx open-source Web server software released security updates on Tuesday to address a highly critical vulner...

Article | 7/05/2013 AutoIt scripting increasingly used by malware developers

AutoIt, a scripting language for automating Windows interface interactions, is increasingly being used by malware developers thanks to its flexibility...

Article | 26/04/2013 Dutchman arrested in connection with large DDoS attack on Spamhaus

A 35-year-old Dutchman was arrested Thursday in Spain, as part of an investigation into a large-scale DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack that...

Article | 26/04/2013 Hackers increasingly target shared Web hosting servers for use in mass phishing attacks

Cybercriminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to ...

Article | 25/04/2013 Security of hosted services is top priority for Adobe's first CSO

Adobe Systems has appointed Brad Arkin, the company's senior director of security for products and services, to become its first CSO. With a mature pr...

Article | 24/04/2013 Recently patched Java flaw already targeted in mass attacks, researchers say

A recently patched Java remote code execution vulnerability is already being exploited by cybercriminals in mass attacks to infect computers with scar...

Article | 23/04/2013 Serious flaw present in latest Java Runtime Environment for desktops and servers, researchers say

Java vulnerability hunters from Polish security research firm Security Explorations claim to have found a new vulnerability that affects the latest de...

Article | 23/04/2013 One in five data breaches are the result of cyberespionage, Verizon says

Even though the majority of data breaches continue to be the result of financially motivated cybercriminal attacks, cyberespionage activities are also...

Article | 19/04/2013 New version of Gozi financial malware bundles MBR rootkit

Researchers from security firm Trusteer have found a new variant of the Gozi banking Trojan program that infects a computer's Master Boot Record (MBR)...

Article | 19/04/2013 Former LulzSec member gets prison sentence for Sony Pictures hack

Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 brea...

Article | 18/04/2013 Researchers find malware targeting online stock trading software

Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations company Groub-IB have recently identified a new piece of malware designed to steal login c...

Article | 17/04/2013 DDOS attacks have increased in number and size this year, report says

The volume, duration and frequency of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks used to flood websites and other systems with junk traffic have sig...