Scammers used fake product listings to steal from Walmart
On November 13, US retailer Walmart announced that they will officially start matching the price for items which are also sold for a lower price by online retailers. Less than …
Tips to avoid online scammers this holiday season
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers, often dramatically cutting prices for one day only, there will be many genuine deals to be had. The problem for many of us is how to …
Regin backdoor: Sophisticated, stealthy, state-sponsored?
Symantec researchers are warning about a new, complex cyber espionage tool that has been around for years and that has likely been created and is wielded by a nation state. …
Black Friday and Cyber Monday will put retailers under pressure
Retailers are currently preparing themselves for two very busy shopping days. Black Friday (28th November 2014) and Cyber Monday (1st December 2014) will see shoppers spend …
Fighting malware, emerging threats and AI
Liran Tancman is the CEO of CyActive, a predictive cyber security company. In this interview he talks about fighting malware, emerging threats, artificial intelligence and the …
ENISA guidelines on cryptographic solutions
ENISA published two reports. “Algorithms, key size and parameters” is a reference document providing a set of guidelines to decision makers, in particular …
Week in review: Critical WP bug allows site hijacking, WhatsApp gets end-to-end encryption
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: The evolution of threat detection and Big Data Mark Gazit is the CEO of ThetaRay, a …
Millions of WordPress websites in danger due to easily exploitable bug
A new WordPress version has been released, and you better update to it, as it patches a critical cross-site scripting flaw that can be exploited by attackers to compromise …
Hikvision DVRs sporting bugs that allow device hijacking
A while back, SANS ISC CTO Johannes Ullrich discovered that cybercrooks were targeting Hikvision Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) in order to infect them with bitcoin-mining …
Examining 1 billion transactions for fraud
ThreatMetrix analyzed nearly one billion transactions and is able to provide a representative summary of activity including account creation, payment and login fraud across …
Users of Remote Access Trojans arrested in Europe
Europol and several law enforcement and judicial authorities carried out an action against EU citizens, mainly teenagers and young adults, who are suspected of using remote …
IE “Unicorn” bug actively exploited in the wild
Last week, in its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft patched a number of serious vulnerabilities, including one that is nearly two decades old, dating back to Microsoft IE 3.0. …