HTTPS Everywhere add-on now available for Firefox on Android
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced the release of a beta version of its HTTPS Everywhere extension for Firefox on Android. HTTPS Everywhere is produced as …
Adults admit logging into their partners social media accounts
New research reveals that one in four Brits will be sending a saucy message or photo to their other half. However, lovers might want to think twice before hitting send on …
Effective incident response
Organizations are bombarded with potential threats every day. Most of these are small and irritating, not truly critical – but among those needles are little threads of …
Every two seconds there’s a new victim of identity fraud
Javelin Strategy & Research reports an increase of more than 500,000 fraud victims to 13.1 million people in 2013. Account takeover fraud hit a new record in incidence …
How Edward Snowden’s actions impacted defense contractors
A new ThreatTrack Security study sheds light on the attitudes of a very exclusive group of IT and security managers – those employed by U.S. defense contractors – …
Insecure file sharing puts corporate data at risk
Personal email could be 2014’s biggest threat to corporate data. A new survey of more than 500 professionals by Globalscape found that in the past 12 months, 63 percent …
GCHQ DoSed Anonymous’ IRC server
British spy agency GCHQ has used Denial of Service attacks against Anonymous, in order to disrupt their communications, their activities, and to lead members of the loosely …
White Lodging confirms POS system breach at 14 US hotels
Hotel management firm White Lodging has confirmed that it has suffered a breach of point of sales systems and has released additional information about the investigation. …
Cyber risks awaiting visitors and viewers of Sochi 2014 Olympics
The 2014 Winter Olympics are set to start on Friday in Sochi, a Russian city located on the shores of the Black Sea. There have been many controversies regarding this choice …
Google ups rewards for third-party software patches
Google is constantly tweaking its bug bounty and patch reward program, and the latest change consists of another broadening of scope and reward amount increases. …
Adobe Flash flaw exploited in the wild, update now
Adobe has released an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability affecting Flash Player for Windows, Linux and OS X, the exploitation of which can result in an attacker …
Police ransomware: A multimillion business
The European Cybercrime Centre at Europol published its Threat Assessment on Police Ransomware – a class of computer malware that has seen exponential growth in the …
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