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New infosec products of the week: July 14, 2017
Pramati introduces ThumbSignIn biometric authentication platform Pramati Technologies announced the ThumbSignIn biometric authentication SaaS platform for mobile and web …
Backdoored Firefox extension checks Instagram for C&C info
Turla, an APT cyberespionage group that has been targeting corporations, intelligence and other government agencies for years, is using a malicious Firefox extension to …
Malware framework using legitimate utilities lobbed at government agencies
Bitdefender researchers have unearthed a previously unknown malware framework that, unlike those used by most APTs, contains many legitimate utilities. Dubbed Netrepser, the …
New infosec products of the week: January 6, 2017
Fortress Cyber Security launches Fortress UTM Fortress UTM provides intrusion detection and prevention, firewall and anti-virus for all Wi-Fi and IoT/Ethernet attached …
New sheriffs in town: No More Ransom
A couple of months ago, Intel Security, Kaspersky Lab, Dutch National Police and Europol announced the No More Ransom initiative. Such an initiative was a true example of the …
Why are hackers increasingly targeting the healthcare industry?
Cyber-attacks in the healthcare environment are on the rise, with recent research suggesting that critical healthcare systems could be vulnerable to attack. In general, the …
Hypervisor wiretap feature can leak data from the cloud
Bitdefender has discovered that encrypted communications can be decrypted in real-time using a technique that has virtually zero footprint and is invisible to anyone except …
Facebook vulnerability allowed access to personal and payment information
Bitdefender has discovered a significant vulnerability within Facebook which allowed access to any user account through simple social login manipulation. The attacker was able …
9% of all ransomware-infected emails target the UK
9.1% of all ransomware-infected emails detected by Bitdefender in 2015 have targeted UK users. Furthermore, 54% of all malware files targeting the UK contained some form of …
JetAudio and JetVideo media player vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution
An arbitrary code execution in the JetAudio Basic (v8.1.3) and JetVideo media players for Windows allows potential attackers to craft a malicious .asf file that could …
Hacker steals Bitdefender customer info, blackmails company
A hacker has managed to access a database containing usernames and passwords of customers of Romanian AV maker Bitdefender, and has tried to blackmail the company into paying …
List of approved Windows 10 compatible security products
Windows 10 is now available to users around the world, and it comes with new security features.AV-Comparatives tested a variety of software titles to see which of them are …
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