Online fraud detection spend to hit $9.2 billion by 2020
eCommerce merchants and financial institutions will be investing heavily in online fraud detection solutions over the next five years, with annual spending reaching $9.2 …
Another “historic” hack and leak: 51 million iMesh accounts for sale
Email addresses and login credentials of some 51 million users of the recently defunct iMesh file sharing service are being sold online for 1 bitcoin. The seller is …
Vawtrak banking Trojan shifts to new targets
The Vawtrak banking Trojan (aka Snifula) is slowly but surely becoming a serious threat. With version 2, the malware has acquired the capability to target even more users, a …
The dynamics of mobile app collusion and malicious activities
Mobile app collusion happens when cybercriminals manipulate two or more apps to orchestrate attacks on smartphone owners. McAfee Labs has observed such behavior across more …
Netgear removes crypto keys hard-coded in routers
Qualys security researcher Mandar Jadhav has discovered two serious vulnerabilities in Netgear D6000 and D3600 modem routers, which can be exploited to gain access to the …
Businesses lost over £1 billion to online crime in the last year
With online crime becoming an increasing threat for businesses, new figures from Get Safe Online and Action Fraud show that from March 2015 – March 2016, a huge total of …
27% of cloud apps are high risk
As more and more organizations adopt cloud platforms, new shadow IT risk vectors are coming into play in the form of connected third-party apps, according to CloudLock …
Ransomware targets Android smart TVs
If you own a Sharp and Philips smart TV running the Android TV OS, you should know that it could be hit by FLocker, a device-locking ransomware that targets both …
Can SourceForge win developers’ trust back?
SourceForge is under new ownership and management (again!), and their plan is to return the service to its former glory. The past Once the preferred source code repository and …
Let’s Encrypt CA inadvertently leaks users’ email addresses
Let’s Encrypt, the non-profit Certificate Authority (CA) that helps website administrators switch from HTTP to HTTPS quickly and effortlessly, has accidentally leaked …
Developing Hashcat, a tool for advanced password recovery
As general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) became more viable around 2009, professional software developer Jens “atom” Steube wanted to …
Symantec will acquire Blue Coat for $4.65 billion
Symantec will acquire Blue Coat for approximately $4.65 billion in cash. The transaction has been approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies and is expected to …