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Chrome, Firefox users targeted with account-hijacking plugins

Hijacked social networking accounts can be monetized in a number of ways, so cyber crooks are always thinking up new ways of doing so, preferably without the user noticing. …

How to spot and avoid SMS scams

2013 has been touted by Gartner as the year when mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide. When you think about it, it’s logical, …

72k people affected by University of Delaware hack

University of Delaware is the latest of the high-learning institutions in the US to have been hit with a cyber attack that resulted in a data breach. According to a …

CIO concerns over security obstructing enterprise mobility

Despite a clear understanding of the benefits and drivers from the end-user community, companies have not mobilized many applications – and a large percentage are …

Security and privacy risks of top mobile apps

Appthority performed a static, dynamic and behavioral app analysis on the 400 most popular free and paid apps on the iOS and Android platforms. They analyzed each app for …

Spammers adapt and embrace popular themes

According to Kaspersky Lab, the percentage of spam in email traffic in June was up 1.4 percentage points and averaged at 71.1 per cent. Malicious attachments were found in 1.8 …

Free tool identifies risks in secure shell environments

SSH Communications Security, known the world over as the inventor of the ubiquitous Secure Shell and SFTP protocols, today announced the general availability of SSH Risk …

Qualys announces WAF Beta for Amazon EC2

Qualys will release the beta of its new cloud WAF solution as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and as a VMware virtual image for on-premise deployments starting August 1. …

Umbrella by OpenDNS Service blocks advanced cyber attacks

The new release of the OpenDNS Umbrella Web security platform has been enhanced with predictive detection capabilities provided by the Umbrella Security Graph. It can …

AWS cloud management APIs: Don’t overlook a key security component

Xceedium has enhanced Xsuite to include protection for the Amazon Web Services management APIs that advanced cloud customers use to monitor and configure their AWS …

DDoS attack size growing dramatically

Arbor Networks released data on DDoS attack trends for the first half of 2013. The data shows that DDoS continues to be a global threat, with a clear increase in attack size, …

Microsoft announces MAPP overhaul

Introduced in 2008, the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) was created to give antivirus vendors a head start against malware developers. Vendors would get …

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