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First-rate phishing email claims “Your Paypal transaction was declined”

Extremely well-made fake notifications claiming the recipients’ PayPal transaction was declined are doing rounds and trying to trick users sharing personal and financial …

Microsoft issues Fix it for critical IE 0-day exploited in attacks

Microsoft has finally issued a security advisory addressing the IE zero-day that has been recently actively exploited in attacks in the wild, and has followed with a Fix it …

Major vulnerability in Tinder dating app allowed user tracking

Include Security unveiled new research showing that users of the popular online dating app Tinder were at significant risk due to a vulnerability they discovered in the …

96 percent of apps have security vulnerabilities

Improvements in patch deployment and secure coding practices have made a slight impact on the incidence of vulnerabilities, according to a new Cenzic report. However, the …

Yara signatures for Careto, the Masked APT

Last week, Kaspersky Lab released their research (Unveiling Careto – The Masked APT) on a fresh APT campaign, which is supposed to had been running for several years. …

60% of enterprises relying on sysadmins to self-police SSH keys

Enterprises tolerate security vulnerabilities by allowing open door, root-level access, according to a new Ponemon Institute report. 46% of the 1,854 respondents reported …

400 iOS and Android apps analyzed for privacy and security risks

A new report analyzes the behaviors of the top 400 iOS and Android apps to assess the state of mobile app security and identify trends impacting consumers and enterprises with …

800M exposed records make 2013 record year for data breaches

Despite oft repeated claims that the insider threat is the one organizations should be looking out for, the numbers and statistics related to 2013 data breaches show that risk …

Two hacker groups used same IE 0-day exploit in recent attacks

The recently spotted watering hole attacks aimed at the visitors of the official website of the US Veterans of Foreign Wars and of a bogus website mimicking that of the French …

Cost of Target data breach exceeds $200 million

Financial institutions continue to respond to the massive data breach at Target. According to data collected by the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) and the Credit Union …

70% Android devices vulnerable to released remote access exploit

The recent release of a Metasploit module that allows attackers to remotely access (“get shell”) on most Android-running devices has again raised a very good …

Lessons learned from blocking 100 million cyber attacks

Using real-life data from the 100m+ malicious hack attempts FireHost blocked in the last 12 months, they produced a Superfecta report which contains a quarter-by-quarter guide …

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