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Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:33:43 +0000
The 10th anniversary of Pwn2Own is now in the books! It was a crazy week at the CanSecWest Conference, full of drama with the biggest contest ever with teams from Asia, Europe and North America! It was a tight race with only three points separating first and second place. In the end, we saw a…
Credit to Author: Axelle Apvrille| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 07:30:22 -0700
A monthly review of some of the previous month's most interesting security research publications
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Credit to Author: Gavin Chow| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 07:21:45 -0700
Digital Video Recorders / Network Video Recorders (DVR/NVR) Back in 2015, our telemetry detected a relatively small number of IPS signature hits on known vulnerabilities targeting DVR/NVR devices (~ 749 hits). In 2016, however, we saw this number increase alarmingly to around 1.5 million hits. By using a size comparison chart again, we can see the huge increase more clearly when we compare both years, as shown below: The question, of course, is what contributed to this huge increase in detected hits? Once again, let’s look at the…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Olga Fedorova| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:55:13 +0000
The My Kaspersky website gives you remote control over the security solutions on all of your devices.
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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:21:00 -0700
FBI director James Comey has suggested that an international agreement between governments could ease fears about IT products with government-mandated backdoors, but privacy advocates are doubtful.
Speaking on Thursday, Comey suggested that the U.S. might work with other countries on a “framework” for creating legal access to encrypted tech devices.
“I could imagine a community of nations committed to the rule of law developing a set of norms, a framework, for when government access is appropriate,” he said on Thursday.
Comey made his comments at the University of Texas at Austin, when trying to address a key concern facing U.S. tech firms in the encryption debate: the fear that providing government access to their products might dampen their business abroad.
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Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 22:26:26 +0000
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| Several Saudi Arabia organizations are being targeted in a new spear phishing campaign. Categories: Tags: anti exploitphishingsaudi arabiaspear phishing |
The post New targeted attack against Saudi Arabia Government appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:13:00 -0700
A group of hackers threatening to wipe data from Apple devices attached to millions of iCloud accounts didn’t obtain whatever log-in credentials they have through a breach of the company’s services, Apple said.
“There have not been any breaches in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud and Apple ID,” an Apple representative said in an emailed statement. “The alleged list of email addresses and passwords appears to have been obtained from previously compromised third-party services.”
A group calling itself the Turkish Crime Family claims to have login credentials for more than 750 million icloud.com, me.com and mac.com email addresses, and the group says more than 250 million of those credentials provide access to iCloud accounts that don’t have two-factor authentication turned on.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:30:14 +0000
It takes just a few minutes to secure your Instagram account. Here’s how to do it. The post Instagram Has Two-Factor Authentication Now, So Turn It On appeared first on WIRED.
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