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Angler exploit kit goes after new Adobe Flash 0-day flaw

An exploit for a still officially unconfirmed zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player has been added to the popular Angler exploit kit and is, along with exploits for …

79% of professionals do business on personal devices

As employees increasingly demand a more mobile and social workplace, the pressure is on for enterprises to deliver the same technology experience employees have in their …

Why insider threat is thriving

In the past few years, rapid growth in the volume of sensitive information combined with new technologies has chipped away at the effectiveness of traditional endpoint …

How health care providers can protect sensitive data

Despite increasingly stringent industry regulations a lot of health care organizations along with their business associates often fail to ensure integrity of sensitive …

Can the next EU regulation guarantee data protection for all?

The European Parliament has agreed its text, the Commission is satisfied with the latest draft, so now we’re are only waiting for the Council of member states to work …

Researchers create inexpensive versions of NSA’s spying tools

ShmooCon, the hacker convention that welcomes individuals interested in all aspects of computer and information security, was held last week in Washington, D.C. Among the …

GoDaddy fixes domain-hijacking vulnerability

Security engineer Dylan Saccomanni has discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability that can be exploited to take over domains registered with Go Daddy, and has forced the popular …

Oracle patches 169 vulns across its products, many are critical

On Tuesday Oracle released its quarterly Critical Patch Update, which addressed a total of 169 vulnerabilities across multiple products, including Java SE (Standard Edition). …

Reactions to President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address

President Obama’s State of the Union Address featured a new legislative focus on cyber security issues: No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our …

Microsoft releases Sysmon 2.0

Sysmon is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows …

11% of Android banking and finance apps are dangerous

RiskIQ found that more than 40,000 of the 350,000 apps which reference banking in the world’s top 90 app stores contain malware or suspicious binaries. Meanwhile, of …

Global shortage of skilled cybersecurity pros

A new global survey of more than 3,400 ISACA members shows that 46 percent of respondents expect their organization to face a cyberattack in 2015 and 83 percent believe …

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