Typosquatting abuse of 500 most popular websites analyzed
A group of researchers from Belgian University of Leuven and US-based Stony Brook University have released the results of their months-long research of typosquatting abuse, …
19,000 French websites hit by DDoS, defaced in wake of terror attack
Since the three day terror attack that started in France on January 7 with the attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, 19,000 websites of French-based companies have been …
One-click mobile fraud variant throws browser for a loop
Symantec researchers have recently encountered a new variant of the old one-click mobile fraud, which results in the users’ mobile browser being thrown in a loop and …
Home routers in Spain and Argentina sport critical vulnerabilities
Spanish security researcher Eduardo Novella has discovered two critical vulnerabilities affecting a specific ADB Pirelli home wireless router deployed by Spanish broadband …
Hottest Snapchats scam spreads on Facebook
A spam campaign revealing the 10 Hottest Snapchats is a new entry to the long list of Facebook scams flooding the social network. Bitdefender’s Labs have now blacklisted …
Pirate activist shows politicians what digital surveillance looks like
How to make politicians really understand the dangers of mass digital surveillance and the importance of information security? Gustav Nipe, the 26-year old president of the …
Open source tool trawls Github repositories for sensitive data
Michael Henriksen, a member of the SoundCloud security team, has been recently tasked with creating a system that will constantly check the company’s GitHub …
WhatsApp sees increasing complexity of spam campaigns
Over the past few months, AdaptiveMobile has tracked an increase of spam complexity on messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, in the United States, Europe and India, and expects …
Encrypted messaging and file storage app Peerio goes open beta
Canada-base Peerio has released the beta version of an app of the same name which combines secure messaging, file sharing and storage, and adds encryption to it. Peerio is …
Five key security, identity and access management trends
CA Technologies announced five key trends for security and identity and access management (IAM) that will impact organizations and security professionals in 2015 as they …
Unlock your digital world with True Key
Intel Security recently previewed True Key, a new way to unlock your digital world. It combines both password management with simple and secure multi-factor …
New version of Cryptowall ransomware spotted doing rounds
The infamous Cryptowall ransomware is back: the newest version has been spotted compromising users starting on January 12. According to both Microsoft and the researcher that …
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