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Red Hat containers
Container Health Index: Red Hat’s standard for trusted containers

Red Hat introduced the Container Health Index, which provides a comprehensive image detail of any enterprise container service. The index grades all of Red Hat’s containerized …

Android malware
Super Free Music Player is the latest malware on Google Play

Another day, another piece of malware lurking on Google Play, masquerading as a free and helpful app. This time it’s called “Super Free Music Player” and is …

DDoS
DDoS attacks: $100,000 per hour is at risk during peak revenue generation periods

Neustar and Harris Interactive conducted global, independent research of 1,010 directors, managers, CISOs, CSOs, CTOs, and other c-suite executives to find out how DDoS …

Retina-X admits they have suffered a data breach

Retina-X Studios, the makers of several consumer-grade monitoring products, have finally announced that they have suffered a data breach. Retina-X and FlexiSpy, another …

trojan
Dok Mac malware intercepts victims’ web traffic, installs backdoor

A new piece of Mac malware, more insidious and dangerous that all those encountered before, has been flung at European users via fake (but relatively convincing) emails. In …

world
200 million financial services records breached in 2016, 900% increase from 2015

The financial services industry was attacked more than any other industry in 2016 – 65 percent more than the average organization across all industries, according to the IBM …

Windows 10
Windows 10 adoption is accelerating, many concerns remain

The vast majority of IT organizations (91%) have installed Windows 10, but there is still great variation in the current level of Windows 10 adoption, according to a new …

general virtual digital
Week in review: Lure10 attack, DoublePulsar exploit proliferation

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: BrickerBot bricked 2 million IoT devices, its author claims The author of BrickerBot, …

World target
IT service providers, many other orgs targeted in long-standing attack campaign

US-CERT has released an alert warning about a sophisticated attack campaign using multiple malware implants and targeting organizations in the IT, Energy, Healthcare and …

Will fileless malware push the antivirus industry into oblivion?

The death of antivirus has been prophesied for years now, but the AV industry is still alive and kicking. SentinelOne, though, believes that in-memory resident attacks, i.e. …

smart hospitals, healthcare
How to securely deploy medical devices within a healthcare facility

The risks insecure medical devices pose to patient safety are no longer just theoretical, and compromised electronic health records may haunt patients forever. A surgical …

talk speak speaker
Industry reactions to the Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report

Nearly 2,000 breaches were analyzed in this year’s Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report and more than 300 were espionage-related. Here are some of the comments Help …

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