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This Week in Security News: Fines and Funding

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:40:22 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the SEC paid $35 million in fines following the 2014 breach, in which Russian hackers obtained the information of 500 million users. In addition, IoT research revealed…

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TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 23, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:00:45 +0000

I was having dinner with friends recently and one of the newer members of the group asked me what I did for a living. I told him that I worked for a cybersecurity company and his reply was, “I don’t need to worry about security – I have a MacBook.” I thought that at any…

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The Internet of Everything and digital privacy: what you need to know

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:36:00 +0000

Statistics indicate within the next couple of years, there will be three IoT devices for every adult and child on the planet—IoT will truly be the Internet of Everything. So, should people be concerned about privacy and data security if these gadgets are always on and ready to transmit information? Let’s take a look.

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The New Mobile Threat Landscape, circa 2017 to 2018

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:00:10 +0000

Is your phone infected?

Submitted by Ian Grutze If mobile threats diversified and expanded in 2016, they matured in 2017. Mobile ransomware continued to rear its head, burgeoning into the platform’s most prevalent threat. Simple screen lockers, for instance, evolved into file-encrypting malware, some of which even seemed to keep pace with their desktop counterparts in terms of malicious routines….

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