Insider trading ring hacked into newswire services, raked in $100M based on stolen info
The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced civil fraud charges against 32 defendants for taking part in a scheme to profit from stolen nonpublic information about …
OpenSSH 7.0 deprecates weak, legacy and unsafe cryptography
OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. Additionally, it provides secure tunneling …
Scammers exploit mobile ads for easy profit
Pop-up ads targeting mobile device users are, arguably, one of the most annoying things in existence. But did you know that they could also make you inadvertently spend small …
Looks like mobile device security is on nobody’s mind
Despite recent high-profile data theft attacks, much of the American workforce has not taken action to protect information on their personal and corporate-issued devices. …
Firefox 40: New features and critical security updates
Mozilla released Firefox 40. The update includes four critical, seven high and two moderate security updates. The new release now issues a warning if you visit a page known to …
Kali Linux 2.0 released: New 4.0 kernel, improved hardware and wireless driver coverage
Kali Linux, the open source penetration testing platform, has reached version 2.0.Kali Linux 2.0 comes with a 4.0 kernel, now based on Debian Jessie. It features improved …
How to prevent insider threats in your organization
Time and again, organizations of all sizes and in all industries fall victim to insider threats: disgruntled, malicious insiders – employees, former employees, …
Severe deserialization vulnerabilities found in Android and third-party Android SDKs
Closely behind the discoveries of the Stagefright flaw, the hole in Android’s mediaserver service that can put devices into a coma, and the Certifi-gate bug, comes that …
Top 10 U.S. cities for online fraud
Data reveals Tampa as the top hot spot for online fraud and ThreatMetrix found a correlation between top cities for fraud and those home to hosted data centers. The top 10 …
Darkhotel spying crew boosts attacks with Hacking Team exploit
Kaspersky Lab has discovered that the Darkhotel group, an elite spying crew uncovered by its experts in 2014 and famous for infiltrating Wi-Fi networks in luxury hotels to …
IoT devices: The good, the bad and the ugly
Cognosec has revealed critical security flaws in ZigBee, one of the most popular wireless communication standards used by Internet of Things (IoT) devices today.Speaking at …
Angler EK exploits recently patched IE bug to deliver ransomware
“If they haven’t already, Internet Explorer users would do well to implement the security update provided by Microsoft last month, as among the fixed vulnerability …
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