Black hat SEO campaign targets WordPress and Joomla installations
Avast is warning about a longstanding black hat SEO campaign involving sites running hacked WordPress and Joomla installations. In this latest campaign, the attackers inject a …
Update your ManageEngine Password Manager Pro ASAP!
Security researcher Sebastian Perez has revealed eight serious security vulnerabilities in ManageEngine Password Manager Pro (PMP), a password management software for …
Subgraph OS: Open source, hardened OS that prioritizes security and anonymity
Subgraph, an open source security company based in Montreal, has published the alpha release of Subgraph OS, which is designed to with security, anonymity AND usability in …
Secure any kind of data, wherever it goes
We’ve all experienced that moment when you realize that you’ve shared the wrong file with the wrong person, potentially even at the wrong time. You’ve lost …
Industry reactions to the Mossack Fonseca data breach
The Panama Papers, a collection of 11.5 million files leaked from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, are now online. The documents show in detail just how exactly the …
Does hybrid IT offer a competitive advantage?
Hybrid IT is about more than saving money. A survey of IT decision-makers at major financial services, retail, health care, and other organizations found that 50 percent have …
Why you should read the Oculus Terms of Service
Last Monday, the long-awaited Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets started being delivered to their buyers. Hopefully, the latter have read the Terms of Service that come with …
Calculate the cost and probability of a DDoS attack
DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly larger, more complex, and perpetrated by cyber extortionist instead of hacktivists and vandals, according to a recent survey from Arbor …
US passport and visa database open to intrusion?
The Consular Consolidated Database (CCD), which contains over 290 million passport-related records, 184 million visa records, and 25 million records on US citizens living …
Global IAM market to reach 24.55 billion by 2022
The global identity and access management (IAM) market is expected to reach USD 24.55 billion by 2022, according to Research and Markets. Increased spending by large scale …
Week in review: Hackers breaching law firms, ransomware flare-up, and how to get your talk accepted at Black Hat
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts and articles: Hackers breaching law firms for insider trading info Two of the most …
PHP, Python still fail to spot revoked TLS certificates
In 2012, a group of researchers demonstrated that SSL certificate validation is broken in many applications and libraries, and pointed out the root causes for that situation: …
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