Firefox loses opportunistic encryption feature due to critical flaw
Less than a week after it made Firefox 37 available for download, Mozilla is pulling one of the security features it implemented. Mozilla is urging users to update again, to …
New crypto-ransomware “quarantines” files, downloads info-stealer
Trend Micro researchers have found and analyzed a new piece of crypto-ransomware: CryptVault encrypts files, makes them look like files quarantined by an AV solution, asks for …
How to keep your Facebook account secure
When last November Facebook asked users to comment the proposed changes to the social network’s terms of use, data policy, and cookies policy, it also introduced Privacy …
Snapchat blocks third-party apps from accessing its APIs
Snapchat has had its fair share of data breaches and security troubles, the latest of which stemmed from the fact that the app’s internal API has been reverse-engineered …
Qualys experts and customers to present security best practices at RSA Conference 2015
The Qualys CEO Philippe Courtot will deliver the opening keynote presentation at CSA Summit during RSA Conference 2015. The keynote discusses how the cloud has forced …
Cyber crooks go after enterprise millions with Dyre malware, social engineering
“An experienced and resource-backed cybercrime gang” is using the relatively new Dyre/Dyreza banking Trojan coupled with effective social engineering to steal …
What happens to data after a breach?
Bitglass undertook an experiment geared towards understanding what happens to sensitive data once it has been stolen. In the experiment, stolen data traveled the globe, …
Week in review: Security tips for DevOps, and how security pros deal with cybercrime extortion
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: 10 practical security tips for DevOps More organizations are embracing …
Mozilla revokes trust for CNNIC certificates
Mozilla has joined Google in revoking trust for certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) Certificate Authority. CNNIC is the administrative …
Digital privacy and Internet security to intersect at Digital Rights Europe
Digital Rights Ireland, Ireland’s leading digital rights advocacy group, has gathered an expert group of Irish and international speakers for the inaugural Digital …
Guidelines on the auditing framework for Trust Service Providers
A new ENISA report provides guidelines on the auditing framework for Trust Service Providers (TSPs). These guidelines can be used by TSPs (preparing for audits) and Conformity …
Google boots unwanted ad injector extensions from Chrome Web Store
Google is done with tolerating sneaky ad injectors and, following the results of a study they recently conducted, they removed from the Chrome Web Store 192 deceptive Chrome …