Freenode suffers breach, asks users to change their passwords
Popular IRC network Freenode has suffered a security breach and is asking users to change their passwords, as they might have been compromised. “Earlier today the …
Dragonfly malware targeting pharmaceutical companies
The recently revealed Dragonfly (Havex) malware is likely targeting the pharmaceutical sector, not the energy sector as previously believed, according to Belden. Until now, …
Video: Reactions of engineers under GCHQ surveillance
Filmmakers Katy Scoggin and Laura Poitras follow reporter Marcel Rosenbach as he informs the staff of a German communications firm that they have been targeted for …
Best practices for skimming prevention
The PCI Security Standards Council released an update to its guidance for merchants on protecting against card skimming attacks in POS environments. Card skimming continues to …
75% of mobile apps will fail basic security tests
Through 2015, more than 75 percent of mobile applications will fail basic security tests, according to Gartner. Enterprise employees download from app stores and use mobile …
Week in review: Security experts discuss Apple Pay, Salesforce hit with targeted attack
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts, reviews and articles: Mobile forensics in a connected world In this interview, Andrew …
Home Depot and Target attackers likely not the same
More details about the malware used in the Home Depot breach have surfaced, and it seems that, after all, it wasn’t the one used in the Target breach (BlackPOS). …
Yahoo’s fight against US govt secret surveillance revealed
Unsealed documents from Yahoo’s challenge to the expansion of US surveillance laws in 2007 and 2008 have shown how the company was ultimately made to comply to the US …
Everything you need to know about POS malware
With this year’s dramatic uptick in data breaches targeting retailers and restaurant chains and, more specifically, the payment card data they process every day, …
Internet of Things to make CISOs redefine security efforts
By year-end 2017, over 20 percent of enterprises will have digital security services devoted to protecting business initiatives using devices and services in the Internet of …
Researchers find malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store
Earlier this year, Google has made it so that extension that are not hosted on the Chrome Web Store can’t be installed and used by users of its popular browser. This …
Researchers unlock TorrentLocker encryption
A team of Finnish researchers has discovered that the files encrypted by the recently unearthed TorrentLocker ransomware can be decrypted without paying the ransom – if …
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