Whatsapp flaw could reveal all your past conversations
A new Whatsapp flaw that allows any other applications on your Android device to exfiltrate and decrypt past Whatsapp conversations has been discovered and revealed by …
Criminal attacks on healthcare increase 100 percent
As millions of new patients enter the U.S. healthcare system under the Affordable Care Act, patient records have become a smorgasbord for criminals. A new study on patient …
Head of Senate Intelligence Committee accuses CIA of spying on Senate
The long awaited reprimand of the US intelligence community by Senator Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, happened yesterday, but not for the …
How do the top 100 UK ecommerce sites deal with personal data?
Dashlane assessed the password security procedures on the Top 100 e-commerce sites by examining 26 different password security criteria and awarding/docking points depending …
External IT security risks are increasing
Over two thirds (71.8%) of organizations believe that the IT security risks they face from external sources has increased. This is the key finding of annual industry research …
Do organizations care about data protection?
Most consumers just don’t believe that the personal and financial data they submit to corporations is safe. That’s the unmistakable takeaway from a new snap poll …
Google Glass offers additional security to ATM users
Taking photos with a wink, checking one’s calendar with a glance of the right eye, reading text messages — the multinational cooperation Google wants to make it …
Over 162,000 WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack
DNS and NTP servers are not the only publicly accessible resources that can be misused to amplify DDoS attacks. Sucuri CTO Daniel Cid revealed details of a recent incident in …
Criminals rush to exploit IE 0-day before the announced fix
Last week Microsoft has announced that today’s Patch Tuesday will include a fix for the critical IE zero-day vulnerability that was found exploited in watering hole …
Reestablishing trust in the Internet
“The next phase of the internet will be data-centred and connectivity driven. Cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things; tools which support manufacturing, …
Without security, clouds can’t reign
A PerspecSys study, conducted on the show floor of RSA Conference 2014, polled 130 security professionals about their organizations’ policies and attitudes as they …
Pinterest publishes its first transparency report
Pinterest has joined the ranks of Internet companies who publish a bi-annual transparency report by issuing one covering the six months from July to December 2013. …