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Symantec addresses global workforce gap in cybersecurity

Symantec launched a first-of-its-kind program, the Symantec Cyber Career Connection (SC3), to address the global workforce gap in cybersecurity and provide new career …

Improperly anonymized taxi logs reveal drivers’ identity, movements

Software developer Vijay Pandurangan has demonstrated that sometimes data anonymizing efforts made by governments and businesses are worryingly inadequate, as he managed to …

Capabilities of “lawful interception” mobile malware revealed

Researchers from Russian AV company Kaspersky Labs and the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto have released details about the mobile surveillance tools provided by …

Havex malware targets ICS/SCADA systems

F-Secure researchers have, for a while now, been monitoring the spreading of the Havex malware family and have been trying to determine who are the attackers that wield it. …

Mobile security and incident readiness

AccessData and Gigaom Research released a report on the growing complexities of mobile security and the limitations of “preventive, policy-driven” solutions that …

Cybercriminals exploit trusted app and service vulnerabilities

The manipulation of legitimate mobile apps and services played a key role in the expansion of mobile malware at the beginning of 2014. McAfee Labs found that 79 percent of …

Card fraud impacts 1 in 4 consumers worldwide

A global fraud study of more than 6,100 consumers across 20 countries revealed that one in four consumers is a victim of card fraud in the last five years. The study, …

Hackers to attack routers at DEF CON

A competition is scheduled for hackers and computer scientists from around the world to better protect consumers against widespread security vulnerabilities in wireless …

Dropbox-themed phishing is after multiple login credentials

Phishing emails purportedly leading users to a file hosted on Dropbox are targeting Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail, and Aol email users, warns Malwarebytes’ Jovi Umawing. …

Google forks OpenSSL: BoringSSL will be used in company products

Google has announced another OpenSSL fork. Dubbed BoringSSL, it will, in time, replace the OpenSSL library in various Google’s projects. “We have used a number of …

Key Internet of Things privacy and security issues

Independently administered throughout 11 countries, a new Fortinet survey gives a global perspective about the Internet of Things, what security and privacy issues are in …

Spammers increasingly targeting Montreal

AdaptiveMobile released data that shows a marked increase in SMS spam across Canada in the past six months. The higher volume of SMS spam comes on the eve of the July 1st …

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