Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers paying for the length of time the exploits are actively infecting computers. The kits offer several kinds of exploits, or sequences of codes that can take advantage of software vulnerabilities in order to deliver malware. Researchers from Seculert have found that at least a couple of these kits — Incognito 2.0 and Bomba — offer their own Web hosting as well as a Web-based management interface.

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ATMs At Risk, Researcher Warns At Black Hat A security researcher today gave notice to companies that make automated teller machines (ATMs). Here on the first day of the Black Hat conference, Barnaby Jack, director of research at IOActive, demonstrated attacks that would allow a criminal to compromise ATMs, allowing hypothetical thieves to steal cash, copy customers’ ATM card data, or learn the master passwords of the machines

With the by-line that “delay is a fact of life at ICANN” and that “dates are subject to change”, Minds + Machines have published a new timeline for the introduction of new generic Top Level Domains. The timeline follows a post-Nairobi webinar from ICANN board member Bruce Tonkin

A survey of the domain registration behaviour of Fortune 100 companies conducted by Minds + Machines reveals that they have not registered many of their trademarks in recently created generic top-level domains (gTLDs). In the study it was found a sample of 1043 brands were registered in less than 30 per cent of the eight new open gTLDs created after 2001.

Macs grab top reliability, support spot for third year running Apple’s computers again took the top spot in an annual reliability and support ranking, Syracuse, N.Y.-based technical support franchise Rescuecom said today. Macs were the most reliable — and Apple’s support the most dependable — for the third year running, said Josh Kaplan, the president of Rescuecom. “They’ve maintained that position without fail, which is first of all a testament to the reliability of their machines,” said Kaplan

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