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Compliance vs. cybersecurity: Insurers face competing priorities

Over the next 12 months insurers will face competing priorities for resources and time, with cybersecurity preparedness challenging overall regulatory compliance readiness, …

Android ransomware gets new, professional look thanks to Googles Material Design

“Ransomware authors are stepping up their game: they have begun using Google’s Material Design language to create extremely convincing notices/ransom requests that …

Thousands of Zhone SOHO routers can be easily hijacked

Two days before he is scheduled to give a talk about discovering and exploiting 0-day vulnerabilities in SOHO routers’ firmware, security researcher Lyon Yang has …

Chinese hackers arrested at US request

Late last month, China’s president Xi Jinping made a state visit to the US and it resulted, among other things, in an agreement that the US and China will provide each …

GnuPG 2.1.9 released

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard which is commonly abbreviated as PGP. It allows to encrypt and sign data and …

Authentication bypass flaw in Netgear SOHO routers exploited in the wild

A critical security vulnerability affecting nine Netgear router models is being exploited in the wild. The flaw that the attackers took advantage of allowed them to access the …

Theoretical computer science provides answers to data privacy problem

The promise of big data lies in researchers’ ability to mine massive datasets for insights that can save lives, improve services and inform our understanding of the …

Week in review: The price of the Internet of Things, YiSpecter hits non-jailbroken iOS devices, and the most secure Android smartphones

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles:The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious …

LogMeIn to acquire LastPass for $125 million

LogMeIn has agreed to acquire LastPass, the popular single-sign-on (SSO) and password management service.Under the terms of the transaction, LogMeIn will pay $110 million in …

Apple boots some ad blockers from App Store to protect users’ privacy

Less than a month has passed since the release of iOS 9, with which Apple welcomed third-party ad blocking apps, and the company has removed some of them from the App …

Which Android smartphones are most secure?

87% of Android devices are vulnerable to attack by malicious apps and messages, a group of researchers from Cambridge University in England has revealed.For years now, they …

Attackers compromise Cisco Web VPNs to steal login credentials, backdoor target networks

Another Cisco product is being targeted by attackers looking for a permanent way into the computer networks and systems of various organizations, Volexity researchers …

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