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Tips for utilities to comply with new cybersecurity standards

When the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) signed Order 791 in January 2014, more than 400 utilities suddenly faced a tight timetable to plan for and …

John McAfee releases secure messaging app

John McAfee (and, alternatively, his name) has long been a fixture in the security market. And, finally, after a considerable hiatus and crazy happenings, the man is back with …

Global cost of data breach goes up by 15 percent

The average consolidated total cost of a data breach increased 15 percent in the last year to $3.5 million, say the results of Ponemon Institute’s ninth annual Cost of …

EFF invites users to test online tracking blocker

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is on a mission: give users a tool that will help them disallow/block trackers contained within the Web pages they visit. They have been …

Android “Police Locker” ransomware set to attack

Android users might soon become victims of “Police Locker” ransomware, if they haven’t already, warns the researcher behind the Malware don’t need …

Mobile phone security transformed with 4 new encryption apps

Following the high profile breaches of mobile phone security that have hit the headlines in recent years, a British company has launched a new range of mobile phone apps that …

Researchers share details about recent IE 0-day exploit and its delivery

Given that Microsoft has closed the Internet Explorer 0-day vulnerability that was exploited to compromise US-based defense and financial firms, the Sourcefire vulnerability …

Researchers debunk severity of OAuth “Covert Redirect” bug

Late last week, a Ph.D. student at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore made the information security world pause for a moment by claiming that he had found a …

NIST updates Transport Layer Security (TLS) guidelines

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an update to a document that helps computer administrators maintain the security of information …

Week in review: IE 0-day patched, Windows XP gets unexpected update, and tips on how to learn information security

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: XSS bug in popular Chinese site exploited to launch DDoS attack DDoS …

Facebook unveils Anonymous Login

At the F8 developers conference on Wednesday, Facebook announced that users will soon be offered the choice to login to third-party apps anonymously. “People tell us …

Beware of “free Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0” offers

As soon as the release of a new version of Malwarebytes’ popular AV solution has been announced, cyber crooks and scammers began exploiting the news. Hosted on random …

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