Yahoo released its Transparency report covering the number of government requests for user data.

In 2014 the Belgian government requested 5 times user data from Yahoo for 17 accounts. All these requests were rejected by Yahoo.

5 “Government Data Request”, meaning a government agency seeking information about Yahoo accounts. These are generally made in connection with criminal investigations. 17 “Government Specified Accounts”, meaning the number of Yahoo accounts, users, or other unique identifiers. Yahoo “Rejected” … Read more.

With the recent increase of notifications of cryptolocker malware I was wondering if this dropped malware was always the same version or if the attackers used different versions. I was also curious if the delivery path (e-mail route or otherwise) was different. This raised the question : “How to share malware with a security team?”.

Some teams have a service where you can upload samples. If they do not have an upload service then you … Read more.

CERTs have to provide their constituency early warnings and alerts about new threats.

A typical example is a new form of malware being distributed by e-mail. It takes a while before anti-virus vendors include the new signature to recognise the malware. This means that there’s a time window where the malware is not filtered and users in your constituency can get infected.

To protect your constituency you can provide them your own signature with indicators … Read more.