“If you’re even asking the question “what’s the secure way to launch a cloud initiative,” your company is ahead of many organizations, experts say. The time to consider security is at the beginning of the planning stage for a cloud deployment…” Via: 8 Steps to a Secure Cloud Initiative – eSecurity Planet. ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

“The rogue extensions are advertised on Facebook by scammers and claim to allow changing the color of profile pages, tracking profile visitors or even removing social media viruses, said Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini in a blog post on Friday,” writes CIO’s Lucian Constantin. “Once installed in the browser, these extensions give attackers complete control over the victim’s Facebook account and can be used to spam their friends or to Like pages without authorization,” Constantin writes. “In one case, a rogue extension masqueraded as Adobe Flash Player and was hosted on the official Chrome Web Store, Assolini said. By the time it was identified, it had already been installed b ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

“A hard-to-detect piece of malware that doesn’t create any files on the affected systems was dropped onto the computers of visitors to popular news sites in Russia in a drive-by download attack, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab…” Read More… Java-based Web Attack Installs Hard-to-detect Malware in RAM | PCWorld.   …….. ….     ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

“There is a lot of malware spam on twitter at the moment… They say things like: Hey, so some real nasty things are being said about you… DON’T CLICK THE LINK!! Even if it’s from one of your close friends… In the simplest terms – clicking the link and logging in causes your Twitter account to be hacked and send spam to your followers…” Continue Here… How to Deal With Twitter DM Spam | SEO Perth.   …….. …. .. .   ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

If you value your online security, you should welcome the iPad | Technology | guardian.co.uk. “Complaints about the iPad’s limited nature overlook the havoc that open Windows PCs have caused….” ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

Facebook password reset themed malware campaign in the wild | Zero Day | ZDNet.com. “Facebook is warning its users on an ongoing BredoLab malware serving campaign using the well known “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Customer Support” social engineering theme….” ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

Attack code for Firefox zero-day goes wild, says researcher • The Register. “The exploit – which allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code on end user PCs – triggers a heap corruption vulnerability in the popular open-source browser, said Evgeny Legerov, founder of Moscow-based Intevydis. He recently added it as a module to Vulndisco, an add-on to the Immunity Canvas automated exploitation system sold to security professionals….” ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft plugs critical Windows worm holes | Zero Day | ZDNet.com. “Microsoft today released 13 security bulletins with fixes for 26 vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Office users and warned customers to pay special attention to a slew of flaws that can be trivially exploited by malware miscreants….” ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

Online Banking Passwords, Usernames Widely Reused – www.esecurityplanet.com. “The company’s twelve-month study surveyed over 4 million people and found that many customers of online banks or Web financial sites — 73 percent — reuse their passwords on non-financial Web sites….” ....> The Post Continues Here! <....

Sean Cutright’s blog on Delta Media Group, real estate website, lead management technology: Beware of phony SEO pitches. “The more real estate brokers and agents I talk to about search engine optimization, the more I hear stories about shady companies continuously contacting them, trying to sell SEO services week in and week out….” ....> The Post Continues Here! <....