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February 3, 2012
How to recognize fake Facebook “friends” with bad intentions (infographic)
One tool cyber criminals use are fake accounts which can then be used in a variety of ways to distribute spam or mount attacks on legitimate users, says security firm Barracuda Networks, which has done a study that can help you spot a fake trying to friend you on the site.
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February 3, 2012
Report examines the difference between real and fake Facebook profiles
Barracuda examined nearly 3,000 Facebook profiles, and made a note of the distinctive differences, which can separate the fake profiles from those used by a real person. The aggregated data comes from one of the company’s tools, Profile Protector, which helps users defend against malicious content on Facebook itself in addition to Twitter.
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February 3, 2012
Infographic: How To Spot A Fake Facebook Friend Profile
A whopping 97 percent of fake Facebook profiles purport to be female, according to this infographic based on a new study, announced today, from security firm Barracuda Networks. In order to expand their networks and entice would-be victims, 58 percent of the phony profiles also claim to be bisexual and on average, have 726 friends while 68 percent claim to have attended college.
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February 3, 2012
How to identify a fake facebook profile
The internet security and data firm Barracuda Networks has released findings from Barracuda Labs to help identify fake profiles versus real people. The study analyzed a random sample of 2,884 active Facebook users to identify key differences between real user accounts and fake accounts created by attackers and spammers, according to a company news release.
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February 2, 2012
How To Spot A Fake Facebook Profile
"Fake users can take over your account, spam your wall and feeds," Paul Judge said. Many of these profiles are automatically generated, aimed at making money off of affiliate campaigns or spam-related scams: They spread phony ad campaigns for free gift cards from Starbucks or other trusted brands, he said.
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February 2, 2012
How to identify fake Facebook accounts
Apparently, of some 850 million active Facebook users, a lot are fake profiles created to spread spam and viruses. These are often categorized as spammers or attackers. Security firm Barracuda Networks released today the findings from its most recent study that helps distinguish attackers from real users.
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January 13, 2012
Bryan Herta Autosport Names Barracuda Networks as Primary Sponsor
Bryan Herta Autosport, last year’s Indianapolis 500-winning team, is proud to announce that it has partnered with Barracuda Networks Inc. as the primary sponsor for Alex Tagliani’s 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series entry.
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January 13, 2012
Introducing Team Garmin-Barracuda
The professional team Garmin-Cervélo announced Wednesday that the team has changed its name to Garmin-Barracuda for the 2012 season due to additional sponsorship from Barracuda Networks.
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January 13, 2012
Introducing Team Garmin-Barracuda
The professional team Garmin-Cervélo announced Wednesday that the team has changed its name to Garmin-Barracuda for the 2012 season due to additional sponsorship from Barracuda Networks. Along with the announcement of the merger, Garmin-Barracuda unveiled the 2012 jersey, to debut at the Tour Down Under.
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January 13, 2012
Barracuda Networks replaces Cervélo at Garmin
Campbell, California-based Barracuda Networks is replacing Cervélo as the co-title sponsor of the Garmin pro team, the team announced Wednesday. Team Garmin-Cervelo has been renamed Team Garmin-Barracuda for this season.
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January 13, 2012
Bryan Herta Autosport Signs Barracuda Networks' Sponsorship Pact
The chips are falling in all the right places for Bryan Herta Autosport, which capped the second week of the year by naming Barracuda Networks as primary sponsor for the team's Alex Tagliani-driven Lotus/Dallara/Firestone Indy car in the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series.
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January 13, 2012
Bryan Herta Autosport names Barracuda Networks as primary sponsor
Bryan Herta Autosport, last year’s Indianapolis 500-winning team, is proud to announce that it has partnered with Barracuda Networks Inc. as the primary sponsor for Alex Tagliani’s 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series entry.
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January 13, 2012
Barracuda Networks Partners With Herta Team, Tagliani
Bryan Herta Autosport has partnered with Barracuda Networks Inc. as the primary sponsor for Alex Tagliani's 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series entry.
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January 13, 2012
INDYCAR: Series news and notes 2012-01-13
Barracuda Networks partners with Herta team, Tagliani: Bryan Herta Autosport has partnered with Barracuda Networks Inc. as the primary sponsor for Alex Tagliani's 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series entry.
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January 03, 2012
Hackers hitting NGOs with backdoor attacks
"Based on our investigation, it seems that the initially reported affected organization is just one of the targets in this attack and that the attack itself is fashioned specifically for the targets," it said in a blog post.
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January 02, 2012
Customers’ Public Social Data Isn’t Yours
Customers may post rafts of personal information on social media, but that doesn’t mean they want companies using it. Here are five steps for marketers to balance customers’ expectations for privacy with the availability of data for relevant marketing.
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December 23, 2011
Malware targets human rights activists
Hackers have successfully compromised the UK version of Amnesty International's website by serving malware that exploits a recently-patched vulnerability in Java.
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December 22, 2011
Amnesty International UK compromised, serving exploits and malware
Researchers from Barracuda Labs have detected a drive-by malware campaign currently embedded at the web site of Amnesty International UK.
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December 22, 2011
Amnesty International Site Serving Java Exploit
Amnesty International‘s homepage in the United Kingdom is currently serving malware that exploits a recently-patched vulnerability in Java. Security experts say the attack appears to be part of a nefarious scheme to target human rights workers.
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December 08, 2011
By the Numbers: How Dangerous Are Facebook, Twitter, and Search Engines?
In his presentation titled "The dark side: Measuring and analyzing malicious activity on Twitter and Facebook," Daniel Peck, research scientist with Barracuda Networks, delves into the details of how cybercriminals trap people on social networks.
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December 08, 2011
Paul Judge on Clicks For Meals and Social Network Security
Dennis Fisher talks with Paul Judge of Barracuda Networks about the company’s Clicks For Meals program, which is aiming to provide 10,000 meals during the holidays through the World Food Programme.
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December 08, 2011
By the numbers: How dangerous are Facebook, Twitter, and search engines (really)?
As a research scientist for Barracuda networks, Daniel Peck has spent much of his time in the last year looking at activity on social networks and analyzing the common tactics used to scam, phish and otherwise trick people into clicking on bad links. A break down of the malicious activity on social networks can be found in By the numbers: How dangerous are Facebook, Twitter, search results (really)?
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December 08, 2011
By the numbers: How dangerous are Facebook, Twitter, and search engines (really)?
In his presentation titled "The dark side: Measuring and analyzing malicious activity on Twitter and Facebook," Daniel Peck, research scientist with Barracuda Networks, delves into the details of how cybercriminals trap people on social networks. Peck's research also uncovered that user perceptions of social networking security contrasts drastically with actual membership rates, which you can read about in Facebook may be scary, but we love it anyway.
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December 08, 2011
Paul Judge on Clicks For Meals and Social Network Security
Dennis Fisher talks with Paul Judge of Barracuda Networks about the company’s Clicks For Meals program, which is aiming to provide 10,000 meals during the holidays through the World Food Programme.
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December 08, 2011
Facebook may be scary, but we love it anyway
Respondents (to this Barracuda Labs research study) also said work and Facebook are not compatible, with 73 percent admitting they believe employees share too much information online. Another 86 percent said employee behavior on social networks can endanger company security..
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December 07, 2011
Security applications: Bodyguards for Facebook Accounts
With social networks booming, its users become more often target of hackers, spammers and phishermen. New free Facebook apps from Symantec, Bitdefender and Barracuda help to protect users from attacks and deactivate dangerous links. Profile protector runs (unlike Safego and SafeWeb) not as an application within Facebook, but connects as an independent online service to facebook and twitter accounts of its users. Similar to the other two tools, the user needs to grant access rights to his or her digital profiles. After this the protection runs in the background without any other activity needed.
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December 07, 2011
Facebook may be scary, but we love it anyway
As a research scientist for Barracuda networks, Daniel Peck has spent much of his time in the last year looking at activity on social networks and analyzing the common tactics used to scam, phish and otherwise trick people into clicking on bad links. A break down of the malicious activity on social networks can be found in By the numbers: How dangerous are Facebook, Twitter, search results (really)?
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December 01, 2011
Barracuda Networks Turns 'Follows' And 'Likes' Into Meals For Children In Need
In an effort to combat world hunger, Barracuda Networks is challenging the world to help provide 10,000 meals for hungry children this holiday season. From November 30 until December 31, Barracuda Networks' new one-for-one campaign-outlined at www.barracuda.com/clicksformeals-offers three free, simple ways everyone can help donate meals to starving children around the world.
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December 01, 2011
Barracuda Networks Launches Clicks for Meals To Help Feed Hungry Children
Barracuda Networks Launches Clicks for Meals To Help Feed Hungry Children Barracuda Networks has partnered with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to help feed hungry children from around the world with a project called Clicks for Meals. To participate in the program, visit barracudalabs.com/clicksformeals and install Baracuda's Profile Protector, follow @BarracudaLabs on Twitter, or like Barracuda Networks on Facebook.
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December 01, 2011
Barracuda Networks Launches Clicks for Meals To Help Feed Hungry Children
Barracuda Networks Launches Clicks for Meals To Help Feed Hungry Children Barracuda Networks has partnered with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to help feed hungry children from around the world with a project called Clicks for Meals. To participate in the program, visit barracudalabs.com/clicksformeals and install Baracuda's Profile Protector, follow @BarracudaLabs on Twitter, or like Barracuda Networks on Facebook.
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October 28, 2011
73 Percent of People Think Employees Overshare on Social Media
A new infographic from Barracuda Labs shows that 73% of those surveyed think employees share too much online. 1 in 5 said that they themselves have been negatively impacted by information exposed on social media and that number is likely to climb.
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October 27, 2011
Social Malice: One In 60 Facebook Posts Are Malicious
According to new Barracuda survey data of social media users, LinkedIn is the least-blocked social network by enterprises, with only 20% of organizations preventing their employees from using LinkedIn from work.
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October 25, 2011
Social Malice: One In 100 Tweets And One In 60 Facebook Posts Are Malicious
"When you look at the actual damage that could be done to a business" by hackers targeting LinkedIn accounts, it's high for business disruption and employee misinformation, for example, says Daniel Peck, senior research scientist with Barracuda Labs, ...
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October 25, 2011
Barracuda Networks Announces New Anti-Virus Capabilities for Microsoft Exchange Servers
Barracuda Networks, a provider of security, application delivery and data protection solutions, announced that its Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall line will feature new anti-virus capabilities for Microsoft Exchange hosting servers at no additional charge.
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October 25, 2011
Extended Antivirus protection on Firewall Upgrade
Barracuda Networks has announced the company’s flagship Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall line, of both hardware and virtual appliances, now includes its award-winning anti-virus capabilities for Microsoft Exchange servers at no additional charge.
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October 13, 2011
Nine of ten people attacked on social networks (infographic)
“Social networks are a significant part of how we communicate with one another. At the same time, the dangers associated with social networking have climbed exponentially,” said Dr. Paul Judge, chief research officer and vice president for Barracuda Networks, which has just released its 2011 Social Networking Security and Privacy Study.
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October 13, 2011
Users are worried about social network security and privacy
A report by security firm Barracuda Labs found that two of the top reasons for choosing one social network over another are security at 92 per cent and privacy at 90 per cent.
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October 13, 2011
54% of Social Networking Customers Encountered Phishing Attempts
A new study released by a web security company called Barracuda Networks revealed the experiences of users from 20 countries in relation to security aspects regarding social media. The report also outlines deficiencies that should be handled by providers to make their customers fell more secure.
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October 3, 2011
Barracuda Networks to expand Middle East footprint
Barracuda Networks, a provider of content security, data protection and application delivery solutions, has announced expansion plans in the Middle East in response to demand for stronger security following a global increase in high profile security attacks.
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September 19, 2011
Certificate phishing sucks bank customers into Blackhole
Spammers are telling bank business customers that their SSL certificates had expired in efforts to exploit the blacklisting of certificate authority DigiNotar. DigitNotar was blacklisted by major browsers after it was hacked and issued fraudulent certificates. Barracuda Networks security researchers Dave Michmerhuizen and Luis Chapetti said the spam carried a dangerous message...”
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September 16, 2011
Spammers exploit confusion over revoked SSL certificates
The latest spam campaign spotted by Barracuda targets the customers of the Royal Bank of Canada, and the email sent to them contain "Your digital certificate has expired!" in the subject line and a spoofed From field...
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September 16, 2011
Spam relating to #DigiNotar certificates is detected
Research by Barracuda Labs said that consumer confusion over DigiNotar certificate forgeries has resulted in spam emails being pitched directly to business customers of banks to convince them that their SSL certificate has expired.
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August 20, 2011
High-Tech Product, Low-Tech Pitch
...Marc Wolfe, Barracuda’s senior director of marketing, says its radio ads don’t aim at people with a particular title but instead are intended to “ignite a conversation with as many influencers in a single organization as possible.”
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August 17, 2011
Dansker skal etablere Barracuda i Norden
Kanalveteranen Leif Jensen skal med udgangspunkt i Danmark etablere en nordisk organisation for Barracuda Networks.
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August 17, 2011
IPv6-handling flaw found in Windows 7
The security firm Barracuda Labs said on Tuesday that someone would have to make a targeted denial-of-service attack to exploit the vulnerability, but exploitation could cause failure in a PC's network connectivity, applications and sound system.
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August 12, 2011
How to Avoid Bogus Twitter Accounts
During Twitter's "Red Carpet Era", in October 2009 alone, the 140-character broadcasting service flagged twelve percent of all accounts as malicious and kicked them off, according to data from Dr. Paul Judge, a Social Network Security Research Team Leader at Barracuda Networks.
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August 1, 2011
Facebook offers $500 bounty for security bugs
As part of the new bounty program, Facebook will award researchers $500 or more if they privately divulge certain flaws that may “compromise the integrity or privacy of Facebook user data,” the social networking giant announced on a new portal with full details of the program. Several other companies – including Google, Mozilla and security firm Barracuda Networks – also have similar programs.
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August 1, 2011
Security firm warns of new Twitter threat
As Barracuda Networks revealed earlier this year at the RSA security conference, Twitter has proven appealing to scammers because of its functionality both as a social network and search engine.
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July 14, 2011
Invitations To Join Google+ Could Be Ruse To Steal Facebook Info, Researchers Say
A new online scam is offering an invitation to join Google+, the new social networking offering from Google, according to researchers at security vendor Barracuda Networks.
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June 23, 2011
Barracuda Labs Detects Spam Runs Aimed at SMBs
According to investigators at Barracuda Labs a security company, they've identified 2 fresh spam outbreaks, which while targeting SMBs with malware, are presently circulating online.
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June 30, 2011
Will spam soon be a thing of the past?
People are spending more time on web properties than they were four or five years ago," said Paul Judge, chief research officer at security appliance vendor Barracuda Networks. The result is that search engine results are becoming cluttered with blatantly commercial or useless pages, in much the same way that email boxes were flooded when spam first spiked about a decade ago.
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June 30, 2011
Why are website attacks on the rise?
Recent high-profile Web security breaches have caused organisations in both the private and public sectors to take a deeper look into the security measures they have in place as well as to question why there is such a recent concentration of attacks.
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June 27, 2011
How to block rogue apps on your Facebook account
Profile Protector...once installed, it works like an antivirus scanner for Facebook profiles by scanning the user-generated content posted to your profile and on your wall. Anything malicious or suspicious is blocked or removed.
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June 23, 2011
Watch for Malicious Spam Pretending to be from Federal Reserve or IRS
Security researchers from Barracuda Labs – David Michmerhuizen and Luis Chapetti – said that amount of spam is totaling “many hundreds of thousands a day.”
It was being sent to a cross-section of Internet users, Barracuda said.
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June 23, 2011
Federal Reserve spam campaign leads to malware
A rather poorly executed but extensive spam campaign impersonating the US Federal Reserve is currently targeting online banking users.
The email, using graphics hosted by the Federal Reserve, ostensibly warns users of a failed outgoing wire fund transfer, and offers a link to further information...
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June 22, 2011
New Zeus emails cloaked as Fed, IRS messages
Researchers at Barracuda Labs first spotted the huge uptick in the malicious messages on Monday morning, when the emails were blocked before reaching some 120,000 users within 10 minutes.
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June 22, 2011
Massive Spam Attack Is Duping People With Emails Pretending To Be From The Fed
Our spam monitoring systems at Barracuda Labs are following a very large spam campaign carrying Trojan.Zeus. The spam amounts are approaching many hundreds of thousands a day and although they are being delivered to a wide cross-section of Internet users, the content of the spams is aimed at users of online banking services.
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June 22, 2011
Federal Reserve themed emails lead to ZeuS crimeware
Researchers from Barracuda Labs have intercepted a currently spamvertised malware campaign serving the ZeuS crimeware.
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May 16, 2011
Barracuda Backup Server Boosts Replication Capabilities
In an effort to broaden its products' backup and restore features for its users, Barracuda Networks Inc. has enhanced its Barracuda Backup Server to add the ability for its tapeless backup appliances, which up until now have saved user data only to the cloud, to replicate data between sites.
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April 27, 2011
Security experts: PlayStation Network breach one of largest ever
Dr. Paul Judge, chief research officer and vice president of Barracuda Networks, says the PSN intrusion is "arguably the second largest data breach ever," trailing only 2009's Heartland Payment data breach, which impacted 175,000 merchants and millions of payment card transactions per month.
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April 20, 2011
Best Of Interop 2011 Finalists
The Best of Interop Awards recognize exhibitors that have made significant technological advancements in specific category areas. The winners in each category represent the products that the judges believe have the most significant technical impact on their segment, and are helping to move business technology forward.
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April 19, 2011
Infosecurity Europe: Web 2.0 and personal devices continue to be the plague of the IT manager
...Paul Judge, chief research officer at Barracuda Networks, said that there are five innovations that create a security risk: rapid growth of the web; dynamic web applications; remote employees; new devices that connect to the web; and user generated content websites.
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April 19, 2011
Barracuda makes lemonade after partner data breach
"Everything about this attack was documented, so we can now provide our partners with a proof point and educate them about the importance of web application firewalls; as there are now so many threats constantly barraging web apps,"...
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April 14, 2011
Barracuda hack highlights importance of defense-in-depth
The incident provides takeaways for other organizations, namely highlighting the danger of alone relying on web application firewalls to protect sites, experts said.
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April 12, 2011
Barracuda Networks Breach Bites Partners
The lesson for all security solution providers and customers is that even the experts can make mistakes, and persistent hackers will always find a way to breach even the best security measures.
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April 12, 2011
When dissing a hacked security vendor exposes your own foolishness
Of course nobody should like it when a trusted security vendor gets hacked, as has happened to Barracuda Networks. But other vendors trying to capitalize on another's misfortune is just plain stupid.
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April 11, 2011
Glass House Syndrome and the Security Industry
Recently it appears that security companies themselves have been targeted by hackers. For that reason any company that would fault Barracuda for what happened here is really playing with fire. They may find themselves the next one in the glass house while someone else throws stones...The only real lesson to be learned here is that it could happen to you or I or any of us. That is why we have to be ever vigilant and work as an industry to safeguard not only our own but the property of others as well.
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April 12, 2011
Security firm Barracuda admits to a mistake which let hackers steal partner information
Perone warned against being complacent about coding practices, pointing out vulnerabilities can appear in areas far away from where important data is stored. He said the firm was reminded of a number of lessons from the attack, noting “you can’t leave a website exposed nowadays for even a day (or less)."
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April 12, 2011
Hacker Breaks Into Barracuda Networks Database
A hacker has broken into a Barracuda Networks database and obtained names and e-mail addresses of some of the security company's employees, channel partners and sales leads.The attack started Saturday night and was launched at a time when the Barracuda Web Application Firewall that was supposed to protect the site had been taken offline for maintenance, Barracuda said Monday.
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April 12, 2011
Security firm Barracuda hit by cyberattack
The incident reminded Barracuda of a few key points, explained Perone: 1) You can't leave a Web site exposed for even a day or less; 2) Vulnerabilities in code can happen far away from the data you're trying to protect; and 3) Companies can't be complacent about coding practices or other operations, even with a firewall in place.
Perone added that Barracuda has been notifying people whose e-mail addresses were exposed and that the company apologizes for the incident.
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March 16, 2011
Japan Quake Woes Includes Wave Of Online Scams
Google pointed to a report last month by online security firm Barracuda Networks, which found that the search engine has cut the number of sites with malicious software on its service by nearly 50%.
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March 16, 2011
Security vs. Coffee Spending: 10 Reasons Why Web Applications Are Easy Targets
Are your customers spending more money on coffee than they are on keeping their websites secure? Chances are high that they are, according to a recent report out from the Ponemon Institute. Conducted on behalf of Cenzic and Barracuda Networks, the survey questioned over 600 IT security practitioners in a range of industries.
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March 14, 2011
Security B-Sides speaker list promises 'left field'
"Security B-Sides has quickly gained a reputation as being a meaningful conference and is respected as it gives security professionals an open platform to discuss important issues within the information security industry”, said Dr Paul Q. Judge, now chief research officer at Barracuda Networks.
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March 7, 2011
Barracuda Labs Releases 2010 Security Report Alongside New Profile Protector
In light of their findings, and a perceived market need, Barracuda designed what they hope is a strong solution to the problem. To help combat social network-driven attacks, Barracuda released Profile Protector, a free service that protects social networking users against malicious threats on Facebook and Twitter.
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March 7, 2011
Twitter's 'Dark Side' Growing Once Again
According to Barracuda, the average suspension rate was around 2 percent of accounts in the second half of 2010, a rise of 20 percent on the first half of the year. However, the graph also plots some alarming spikes that don't show up in averages, including one in mid-year that reached above 5 percent for a period of days.
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March 7, 2011
Report: Twitter ‘Crime’ on the Rise
Barracuda Networks said the percentage of suspended Twitter accounts increased from 1.6 percent during the first half of 2010 to 2 percent during the second half of 2010.
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March 7, 2011
Twitter's 'dark side' growing once again
According to Barracuda, the average (Twitter account) suspension rate was around 2 percent of accounts in the second half of 2010, a rise of 20 percent on the first half of the year.
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March 7, 2011
Barracuda study shows sharp rise in search engine malware, Twitter crime rate
If you're just randomly searching for a trending topic, your chances of getting malware are significantly increased on Twitter.
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March 7, 2011
Google tops comparative review of malicious search results -- again
Search engines and blackhat SEO (search engine optimization) attacks continue representing a prominent tactic in the arsenal of the malicious attacker.
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March 4, 2011
Spam wanes, while web attacks surge
Barracuda Labs studied the popular search engines and social media sites, such as Bing, Google, Yahoo and Twitter, specifically the so-called trending topics that might be enlisted by malware distributors. The survey was conducted over five months and reviewed more than 157,000 trending topics and 37 million search results.
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March 4, 2011
Search Engine Malware Doubled In 2010, Report Says
"The shift from email to search engines and social networks changes the way we think about security because the user no longer has to do something -- like click on an attachment -- to be infected," said Paul Judge, chief research officer at Barracuda Networks”
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March 4, 2011
Charlie Sheen malware could mean not 'winning'
And just recently, Barracuda Networks, a content security and data protection company, said it found that "Jenni J-Woww" — Jenni "Jwoww" Farley of "Jersey Shore" fame — to be one of the world's most dangerous search terms.
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March 4, 2011
JWoww Will Infect You Too!
According to one research firm, the name JWoww is the second most dangerous searchable terms on the Internet.
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March 4, 2011
Criminals turn their attention to Twitter
The social networking site continues to grow in popularity with more of its users becoming active and according to the latest annual security report from Barracuda Networks this activity has attracted criminals.
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March 3, 2011
Search malware up 55% and Twitter crime up 20%, says 2010 security report
Cyber attackers are moving from using email spam to more aggressively targeting the Internet, according to the annual report from security firm Barracuda Networks.
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March 3, 2011
Twitter Crime up 20% in 2010
Content security and data protection firm Barracuda Networks Inc. has released findings from their 2010 Annual Security Report, which examines the state of security on the internet. In particular, this report looks at how much crime occurs on Twitter, and what types of information or actions the perpetrators are after.
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March 3, 2011
Spam Plunges While Attacks Rise
While spam dropped, other attacks targeting Internet users increased. The daily levels of malware increased 55 percent in the second half of the year, according to the Barracuda Report.
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March 3, 2011
Internet PSA: 'Jenni J-Woww' is One of The Most Dangerous Search Terms on the Internet
One of Jersey Shore's feistiest cast members (have you seen her left hook?), Jenni "Jwoww" Farley is now apparently just as destructive on the internet. An annual security report conducted by research firm Barracuda Labs has found that "Jenni J-Woww" is one of the Internet's most dangerous search terms.
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March 3, 2011
Web Security Report: Jersey Shore's "J-Woww" a Leading Cause of Viruses
According to research firm Barracuda Labs' annual security report, "Jenni J-Woww" is one of the world's most dangerous search terms. Of the top searches that led directly to malware, "Jenni J-Woww" ranked second, behind only queries for "music video."
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March 3, 2011
Illicit activity on Twitter spiked during 2010
Dr Paul Judge, chief research officer at Barracuda Networks, “As a community we often point to the need for user education as the missing component; however, the levels of social engineering involved in today's attacks suggest that we must continue to elevate our technological approaches.”
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March 3, 2011
One in five search engine topics returns malware, says security firm
"Attackers focus on where they can get the most eyeballs and profit, and today that means social networks and search engines," said Paul Judge, chief research officer at Barracuda Networks.
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March 3, 2011
E-mail spam drops by half, search malware on the rise
Attackers are making a shift from using e-mail spam to more aggressively targeting the Internet, according to Barracuda Network.
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February 22, 2011
RSA: New Frontiers in Threat Research
Another fast-growing trend that has become a target for malicious activity is Twitter. In their RSA session, Chief Research Officer Paul Judge and Senior Research Scientist Daniel Peck described what Barracuda Labs learned from studying Twitter traffic and attacks.
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February 18, 2011
Twitter researchers step up fight against spam
...Paul Judge, chief research officer for Barracuda, noted that Twitter is an attractive target because it is both a social network and a search engine. This lets scammers place their wares on a public feed to reach a list of followers. They also seek new eyeballs by making use of trending keywords to have their wares appear in Twitter search results.
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February 17, 2011
Fighting spam and scams on Twitter
...Paul Judge, chief research officer and VP of cloud services for Barracuda, noted that what makes Twitter a particularly attractive target is that it's both a social network and a search engine. This lets scammers place their wares on a public feed to reach a list of followers, as well as seek new eyeballs by making use of trending keywords to have their wares appear in Twitter search results.
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February 17, 2011
RSA Conference 2011: Dark side of Twitter demonstrated
...Judge said: “Twitter is so open that it allows attackers to make use of it. With account hijacking, what risk model is there? There are security flaws and malware in the content and you can see hijacking or simply spam.”
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February 15, 2011
Google Chases Computer Criminals to Search-Engine Competitors
...Google accounted for 69 percent of the attacks in a sample conducted around June, the report says. A Barracuda report in July labeled Google “king of malware.”
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February 10, 2011
Report: State of application security still stinks
[Grant Murphy, Barracuda said], "We were surprised by the intent for people to do good, but the reality is not catching up. A large percentage said web app security is a top priority, but then they try to use layer 4 firewalls to secure layer 7 items. It's like having an open sign on your website. Seventy-two percent admitted their sites have been hacked. The problem is staring them in the face but nothing is being done."
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February 9, 2011
Barracuda Networks: Bug bounty program not without bumps
Network World is reporting how it’s been three months since Barracuda Networks became the latest company to launch a bug bounty program and there have been many lessons learned.
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February 9, 2011
Enterprises Falling Short On App Security, Ponemon Study Says
Companies know they're being hacked, and that a lot of the attacks come through Web applications," says Paul Judge, chief research officer at Barracuda Networks. "Yet in most cases, they spend very little of their time and resources on app security.
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February 9, 2011
The Joys of Running a Bug Bounty Program
When Barracuda Networks started its bug bounty program about three months ago, company officials weren't exactly sure what to expect. They didn't know whether there'd be an onslaught of submissions or the sound of crickets chirping. The reality turned out to be somewhere in the middle.
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February 8, 2011
Barracuda Networks: Bug bounty program not without bumps
Since early November, Barracuda Labs has been soliciting and rewarding security researchers for finding vulnerabilities in Barracuda security appliances. It's not the first bug bounty program by any means. Google has a program of its own, and last month paid a bug hunter a record $3,133 for reporting a single bug in Chrome.
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February 8, 2011
Companies spend more on coffee than securing Web applications
A new "State of Application Security Survey" conducted by the Ponemon Institute and commissioned by Barracuda Networks and Cenzic on respondents' perceptions and experiences protecting Web applications has some disappointing results.
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February 8, 2011
Web Apps Weak Point of IT Security: Ponemon
There is no denying the surging popularity of Web apps, but as the new technologies begin to work their way into the world of enterprise IT, they also put businesses' systems at increasing risk.
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February 8, 2011
Do You Need a Web Application Firewall?
"Fifty-nine percent don't have WAFs in place and 70 percent are kidding themselves by thinking their network firewall will secure their Web applications," Grant Murphy of Barracuda Networks said. "You just can't climb to layer 7 and inspect the payload for the contextual elements of what the traffic is trying to do against the Web application with a network firewall."
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February 8, 2011
Barracuda Networks: Bug bounty program not without bumps
Barracuda Networks Research Scientist Daniel Peck previews his BSidesSF talk on what the company learned in the first 90 days of its Bug Bounty program. There have been bumps along the way.
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February 8, 2011
Insecure Web apps pose serious security risks, survey finds
While 74% said Web application security is equal or more critical to other security issues, only 36% said their organization has adequate governance and policies over the use of insecure Web applications by end users across the enterprise.
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February 8, 2011
73% of organizations hacked in the last 2 years
Website attacks are the biggest concern for companies, yet 88 percent spend more on coffee than securing Web applications, according to a survey by Barracuda Networks, Cenzic and the Ponemon Institute.
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December 20, 2010
Facebook vs. Twitter: Comparing Social Demographics
Using data collected in a Barracuda Networks survey and analysis from Razorfish, Digital Surgeons, an online marketing agency, has created an infographic that compares Facebook users to Twitter users.
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December 14, 2010
F.B.I. Memos Reveal Cost of a Hacking Attack
“Paul Judge, chief research officer for Barracuda Networks, a Web security company, said that it was rare for the monetary damages caused by hackers to become public. In fact, many companies never bother to calculate the total because they are too busy keeping the hackers at bay or they simply never report the incident to law enforcement out of embarrassment, he said.”
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December 14, 2010
Fake hard disk utility software spotted by Barracuda Networks
According to the Barracuda security researcher's blog, the malware attacks a victim's computer using one of the sneakiest tricks in the book – the malicious advertisement, or malvertisement.
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December 10, 2010
Amazon Fake Receipts Scam Asks Sellers for Refunds
According to a Barracuda Labs report this summer, there is an increase in the number of "Twitter Crime" and Sophos researchers have been busy posting about...
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November 19, 2010
IT security is broken, so can companies stay safe?
And then there is Stuxnet, the recent attack on infrastructure control systems and probably aimed at Iran's nuclear programme. Dr Paul Judge, chief research officer at Barracuda Networks, calls it the "most sophisticated piece of malware that the public has ever seen," although he suspects there is more out there, but unseen.”
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November 15, 2010
Bug Bounties: Why The Controversy?
And Barracuda’s announcement seemed to be designed to get maximum publicity, for minimum controversy. The company did, after all, set its fees at exactly the same level as Google did in its own bug bounty programme. Barracuda, it seemed, wanted to establish that its scheme was as legitimate as Google’s.
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November 12, 2010
Barracuda Networks introduces vulnerability disclosure program
Barracuda Networks have announced a ‘Bug Bounty programme' to reward researchers for identifying vulnerabilities in its products.
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November 10, 2010
Barracuda Networks Offers Security Bug Bounty Program
For additional information, including a list of frequently asked questions, which products and bugs are eligible, and how to claim the bounty, researchers are encouraged to visit http://www.barracudalabs.com/bugbounty.
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November 10, 2010
Barracuda Announces Rewards for Security Flaws
Barracuda Networks recently introduced a Bug Bounty Program for researchers who find vulnerabilities in the company's products.
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November 10, 2010
Barracuda launches bug bounty for its security products
Security vendor Barracuda Networks is jumping on board the bug bounty bandwagon, offering between $500 and $3,133.70 to bug hunters who find serious vulnerabilities in its products. Barracuda, which sells a variety of security appliances for antispam, antivirus, Web content filtering and Web application firewall capabilities, is the first security vendor to offer such a program for its own products.
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November 10, 2010
Barracuda joins the bug bounty party
In what may be a first in the security industry, Barracuda Networks has implemented a bug bounty reward program for researchers who discover and report vulnerabilities affecting the company’s product line.
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November 10, 2010
Security vendor launches bug bounty
In the past, several technology companies have announced bug bounties; however, Barracuda Networks is the first security vendor to offer such a bold program, to reward researchers for identifying vulnerabilities in its own products.
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November 09, 2010
Hack our Products and We'll Pay You: Barracuda Networks
The Barracuda Networks bug-bounty program will pay as high as $3,133.70 -- an allusion to the slang " leet" number-related spelling of 31337 for security "elite" --for "particularly severe bugs," according to the company. But the starting reward is $500.
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November 09, 2010
Hack our products and we'll pay you: Barracuda Networks
The Barracuda Networks bug-bounty program will pay as high as $3,133.70 -- an allusion to the slang " leet" number-related spelling of 31337 for security "elite" --for "particularly severe bugs," according to the company. But the starting reward is $500.
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November 09, 2010
Barracuda Networks Offers Bounty to Bug Catchers
Barracuda Networks has started a vulnerability rewards program to encourage the security community forward with bugs in its products.
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November 09, 2010
Barracuda first security vendor to pay for bug finds
Email and web security provider Barracuda Networks announced Tuesday that it has launched a bug bounty program, becoming what is believed to be the first security vendor to award money to researchers who uncover vulnerabilities in its product line.
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November 09, 2010
Hack our products and we'll pay you: Barracuda Networks
Barracuda Networks Tuesday announced it will pay more than $3,100 to anyone who can hack into its security products, saying the bug bounty program is the first ever from a pure-play security vendor.
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November 09, 2010
Barracuda Networks Launches Security Vulnerability Rewards Program
Barracuda Networks has ingrained a newborn rewards aggregation for researchers that show bugs in the company’s section products.
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November 09, 2010
Barracuda Networks Launches Bug Bounty Program
“…The move by Barracuda, a maker of mail security and data protection products, is the first such bug bounty program offered by a pure security technology vendor…”
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November 09, 2010
Barracuda Networks Launches Security Vulnerability Rewards Program
“...Barracuda’s program follows in the footsteps of similar moves by Google and Mozilla to use incentives to get researchers to turn vulnerability information over to vendors as opposed posting it publicly on the Web or handing it to black hats…”
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October 28, 2010
Coder fires ‘Idiocy’ warning to Twitter users
“A large amount of the communication between individuals today is through social networking sites, where rapid growth is first priority and security is an after thought, but most don’t implement any sort of encryption at all,” said Daniel Peck, research scientist at Barracuda Networks.
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October 28, 2010
Firesheep raises more issues for websites and SSL rather than password sniffing
Daniel Peck, research scientist at Barracuda Labs, agreed with Hypponen's claims, agreeing that the only way to make these sort of attacks go away for good is for SSL to be ubiquitous. He said: “While it is certainly more common than just a few years ago, most sites are either still missing the feature or they are implementing it incorrectly. Most login pages are protected by SSL, but all too often the secure connection is then abandoned by the site and the user is dropped back to an insecure connection that exposes the cookie or session ID that uniquely identifies the user, allowing tools like Firesheep to impersonate the account.”
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October 20, 2010
UK cyber defences get £650m, but is it enough?
Cybercriminals have established cross-border alliances and trading markets to carry out and monetise their attacks, says Paul Judge, chief research officer at Barracuda Networks. "Governments must do the same in order to effectively pursue these criminals," he says.
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October 14, 2010
Barracuda: Cloud Computing fuels innovation
In terms of utility computing, the cloud allows people with great concepts and not much money to get their ideas off of the ground by making IT affordable, said Dr. Paul Judge, chief research officer and vice president of cloud services at Barracuda Networks.
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October 10, 2010
National Security Council declares cyber crime as a high priority risk
"...Dr. Paul Judge, chief research officer and VP of cloud services at Barracuda Networks, also accepted the efforts to update and focus defences against cyber crime and cyber attacks. He said: “Cyber criminals have already established cross-border alliances and trading markets to carry out and monetise their attacks. Governments must do the same in order to effectively pursue these criminals. Even in the midst of budget cuts, governments must also invest in improving the technical skill sets within law enforcement agencies in order to prevent and pursue these criminals in this electronic war field...”
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October 6, 2010
Intelligence Sources From Unlikely Places
It's good to see big companies with lots of insight into our organizations giving back some of that knowledge for the greater security good…. Barracuda Labs provides a reputation search service to understand the trust reputation of your URL, IP, email address, and even twitter account. This allows an organization to understand how it may be perceived by others and is built based on the intelligence gathers by Barracuda from around the world.
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September 28, 2010
Email spam campaigns continue to rise as LinkedIn users targeted
Dave Michmerhuizen, security researcher at Barracuda Labs, warned of the latter, claiming that it had seen an enormous increase of spam containing malicious HTML attachments.
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September 24, 2010
One million malware-infected spam HMTLs appearing every day says Barracuda Networks
According to Dave Michmerhuizen, a security researcher with Barracuda Networks, hackers are trying every trick in the book, from using trending news topics to sending deliberately vague messages, in the hope that users will be curious enough to open the HTML.
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September 24, 2010
Spammers hit email users with new HTML attack
“So yes, a seemingly innocent HTML email attachment can do plenty of damage, and while quite stealthy, definitely not harmless,” concludes Barracuda Labs’ researcher, Dave Michmerhuizen.
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September 13, 2010
'Here You Have' email worm target website taken offline, as suspicions begin on who was responsible
Luis Chapetti, lead security analyst at Barracuda Networks, said that over 200,000 emails were seen by its email monitoring systems over a six-hour period and volume dropped off rapidly once the account hosting the malware was shut down.
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September 10, 2010
Cyber-Jihad Group Could Be Behind Worm Clogging Email Servers Worldwide, Researcher Says
The payload wasn't the suspicious .exe or .ZIP file, but an HTML file, according to Luis Chapetti, lead security analyst at Barracuda Networks, which blogged about the attack yesterday. "This outbreak was actually kind of simple," Chapetti said. "All it did was spam itself out. They could have just as easily added a password stealer to the download list and, with more sophisticated code, dynamically changed the download site and keep the worm alive for a long time."
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July 30, 2010
Google contains nearly 70 percent of search engine malware
The report also found that the top search term for malware was “Lois Wilson”, which suggests that a lot of malware producers are either alcoholics or big fans of the silent film era. The second most popular search term was “Hope Dworaczyk”, an American Playboy model, which is much more like what we'd expect for a malware ploy.
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July 28, 2010
More People, And Inevitably Scammers, Are Using Twitter
According to a report by Barracuda Labs, both general and questionable activity is increasing on Twitter, due primarily to the company’s open API and easy account set-up.
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July 09, 2010
Apple users warned of fake version of Flash that can be downloaded to jailbroken devices
...Barracuda Networks has warned web users to be wary of fake Adobe flash updates. It claimed to have uncovered a number of compromised sites in the wild that presents unwary visitors with an official-looking Adobe Flash update page...
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