According to the latest McAfee threats report, Q2 2012 sees a 1.5 million increase in detected malware samples over Q1 2012-- the biggest seen by the company over the past 4 years. 

Meanwhile the malware sample discovery rate is up to nearly 100000 daily thanks to trends such as mobile "drive-by downloads," the use of Twitter for mobile botnet control and the emergence of mobile "ransomware."

The BYOD trend opens further attack vectors, as devices brought in from outside enterprise tend to be either improperly secured or can access questionable online Read more...

The Cube by Electrolux is a unique dining experience: for just four months, it will reside atop of London’s Royal Festival Hall - featuring the talents of some of the most exciting chefs in the UK who work with Electrolux every day. It will cost you priced at £175 per person for lunch (and £215 for dinner Monday to Sunday) to watch some of Britain’s top chefs cook for just 18 guests high above the hustle and bustle, against a backdrop of the River Thames, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.

The same”Tthe Cube”promotion ran in Milan and still runs in Stockholm.

AMG-Panogenics, British manufacturer, announces its PanoCam360, integrated with Wavestore’s NVR with Video Management Software, has been selected by Southbank Centre for ‘The Cube’ by Electrolux.

The surveillance solution has been installed by Honeywell Building Solutions.

Hilton Wells is Head of Technical Services at Southbank Centre, which hosts The Cube atop the Royal Festival Hall until September 30th. He comments, “We have chosen the PanoCam360 camera not only for its discreet stylish looks but also for its 360 degree simultaneous recording capability.” Read more...

We all know the Frankenstein story, right? A genius scientist creates a man out of a selection of body parts, before bringing it to life. Now University of Texas research create something similar to the good doctor-- with computer malware. 

Called (what else?) Frankenstein, the self-camouflaging malware copies pieces of code performing specific tasks (aka gadgets) from regular programs before "stiching" them into working malware code. Semantic blueprints point Frankenstein to the gadgets ideal for its purposes.  

Whenever it infects a new computer, Read more...

Researchers based in Wuerzburg, Munich and Stuttgart discover a more efficient means of producing photons-- the single particles of light at the base of quantum computing, leading the way to potentially more practical quantum cryptography.

Quantum cryptography is incredibly secure. It uses a a quantum key distribution (QKD) link to share a secret encryption key (based in the polarisation of photons) between two computers. According to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, one cannot listen to such communications without altering the polarisation, Read more...