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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:27:32 +0000
Mobile gaming malware is a huge concern – and thus it’s important to take note of how these kinds of malicious programs can be guarded against.
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:00:04 +0000
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| More companies are falling victim to cyberattacks, as a wide range of harmful software, social engineering schemes and scams threaten to compromise the personal information and online safety of their clients. With cybercrime rates on the increase every year, it is important for businesses of all sizes to have a recovery plan in place to mitigate any losses. In the unfortunate event of a data breach, these are the steps you should take to recover. Categories: Tags: cyberattackcybersecuritydata breachSecure Thoughtstwo-factor authentication |
Credit to Author: Ryan Francis| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:17:00 -0800
Ken Johnson, CTO of nVisium, and Chris Gates, Senior Security Engineer at Uber talk to CSO Online's Steve Ragan about working with devops tool chains.
Bruce Schneier, CTO of IBM Resilient on the increasing importance of technologist's presence in education and policy-making.
Credit to Author: Peter Sayer| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 09:06:00 -0800
Last year, someone turned a German internet service provider into a million-router botnet. German police think they will soon have the culprit.
The U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) made an arrest on Wednesday in connection with the November 2016 hack on Deutsche Telekom. The agency said it arrested a 29-year-old man at Luton airport, acting on a European Arrest Warrant issued by the public prosecutor’s office in Cologne, Germany.
The German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt, or BKA), which led the investigation, said it had worked with British law enforcement officials to arrest the man, a Briton.
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Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:00:31 +0000
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| February has been a relatively busy month in the world of Mac malware, and now it has gotten busier with the appearance of the second piece of ransomware ever to affect macOS. Categories: Tags: Adobe Premier ProAppleFindzipmacmacOSmalwareMicrosoft Officeransomware |
Credit to Author: Lilia Elena Gonzalez Medina| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:37:16 -0800
Over the weekend, we encountered an interesting variation of a phishing email targeting Apple users. The email contained an alleged receipt for five movies purchased from the iTunes Store that was so detailed that the user who received it, and who knows better, still almost fell for the scam. Figure 1. Phishing Apple email Similar cases were reported in 2015 by users in the UK and Australia, except in those cases the fake receipt contained songs and books, respectively. Last year, similar emails targeting users in the US were also reported,…
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