FBI issues warning on destructive malware
Last week’s breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment networks and the disabling of employees’ computers has likely been the incident that spurred the FBI to release a …
Hackers hit execs for insider info to gain stock market advantage
FireEye’s researchers have identified yet another hacking group. Dubbed FIN4, the hacking crew seems to be comprised of native English speakers with “deep …
Coordinated cyber attacks on global critical infrastructure exposed
Cylance identified coordinated attacks by hackers based in Iran on more than 50 targets in 16 countries around the globe. Victim organizations were found in a variety of …
VPN providers urged to update OpenVPN due to critical DoS bug
The OpenVPN Project has issued a new version of its popular open source software of the same name and is urging users to implement it, as it solves a critical denial of …
Data loss and downtime costs enterprises $1.7 trillion
Data loss and downtime cost enterprises $1.7 trillion in the last twelve months, or the equivalent of nearly 50% of Germany’s GDP. Data loss is up by 400% since 2012 …
Cost savings drive businesses to the cloud
A survey of C-Level senior executives, developers and other industry delegates has found that 72% of respondents identified cost as the key benefit of using the cloud for the …
Training kids to become infosec superheroes
Children today embark on life in two interconnected worlds, the physical and the virtual. And just as they need to learn how to be smart and safe in the physical world, they …
Cyber attacks impact purchasing behavior
As U.S. consumers head to malls and retail websites this holiday season, they do so increasingly concerned about the safety and security of their personal information. In …
Intel acquires digital identity manager PasswordBox
Intel acquired PasswordBox, a provider of a cross-platform identity management service that gives users a way to log into all of their websites and applications from any …
Tens of thousands web servers backdoored via pirated CMS themes and plug-ins
Over 23,000 websites set up with the help of Joomla, WordPress and Drupal content management systems have been compromised and used for illegal search engine optimization by …
Cybersecurity concept for unmanned systems
The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science Department of Systems and Information Engineering announced the success of an early-stage demonstration to …
118 arrested in action against online fraudsters in the airline sector
On 26 and 27 November, law enforcement agencies from all over the world, in cooperation with the airline, travel and credit card industries, joined forces in a major concerted …
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