Lucian Constantin - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Lucian Constantin

Article | 22/03/2013 Researchers uncover vSkimmer malware targeting point-of-sale systems

A new piece of custom malware sold on the underground Internet market is being used to siphon payment card data from point-of-sale (POS) systems, acco...

Article | 21/03/2013 Researchers find TeamViewer-based cyberespionage operation

Security researchers have uncovered yet another ongoing cyberespionage operation targeting political and human rights activists, government agencies, ...

Article | 20/03/2013 Cisco inadvertently weakens password encryption in its IOS operating system

The password encryption algorithm used in some recent versions of the Cisco IOS operating system is weaker than the algorithm it was designed to repla...

Article | 19/03/2013 Researcher hijacks insecure embedded devices en masse for Internet scanning project

An anonymous researcher created a massive botnet by hijacking about 420,000 Internet-accessible embedded devices with default or no login passwords an...

Article | 18/03/2013 Site hosting leaked celebrity data goes offline

A site that published the private information and credit reports of several celebrities and other public figures last week went offline on Sunday. The...

Article | 18/03/2013 Internal-use SSL certificates pose security risk for upcoming domain extensions

The practice of issuing SSL certificates for internal domain names with unqualified extensions could endanger the privacy and integrity of HTTPS commu...

Article | 15/03/2013 Researchers find vulnerability in EA's Origin platform

Users of Origin, the game distribution platform of Electronic Arts (EA), are vulnerable to remote code execution attacks through origin:// URLs, accor...

Article | 15/03/2013 3G and 4G USB modems are a security threat, researcher says

The vast majority of 3G and 4G USB modems handed out by mobile operators to their customers are manufactured by a handful of companies and run insecur...

Article | 15/03/2013 Security appliances are riddled with serious vulnerabilities, researcher says

The majority of email and Web gateways, firewalls, remote access servers, UTM (united threat management) systems and other security appliances have se...

Article | 14/03/2013 Researchers resurrect and improve CRIME attack against SSL

Two researchers from security firm Imperva have devised new techniques that could allow attackers to extract sensitive information from users' encrypt...

Article | 13/03/2013 Java's security problems unlikely to be resolved soon, researchers say

Since the start of the year, hackers have been exploiting vulnerabilities in Java to carry out a string of attacks against companies including Microso...

Article | 11/03/2013 Lack of HTTPS on iOS App Store left users open to attacks, researcher says

Until late January, Apple's App Store servers did not encrypt all communications with iOS clients, which exposed users to several potential attacks, a...

Article | 8/03/2013 The Android malware problem is not hyped, researchers say

Recent reports from antivirus companies seem to suggest that the number of Android malware threats is growing. However, there are still many skeptics ...

Article | 7/03/2013 Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 bug can lead to system freeze

Kaspersky Lab's Internet Security 2013 product contains a bug that can be exploited remotely, especially on local networks, to completely freeze the O...

Article | 6/03/2013 Deutsche Telekom unveils real-time map of global cyberattacks

Deutsche Telekom launched a Web portal Wednesday that provides a real-time visualization of cyberattacks detected by its network of sensors placed aro...