Cloak and Dagger: A hole in Android
Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:38:50 +0000
How a couple of simple permissions let an application steal passwords, log user actions, and do many other nasty things.
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We’re taking a quantum leap over traditional machine learning
Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:38:29 +0000
Many security vendors already use machine learning. So, what makes our deep learning approach different and how much better does it perform?<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=33700&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/YcUYaF3esfk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreResearchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 11:00:32 +0000
University of Washington researchers put sensors in 15 ridesharing cars, and uncovered new evidence of how stingrays are being used and how to detect them. The post Researchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreInfographic: Protecting Today’s Financial Services Industry in a Digital Environment
Read this post and view the embedded infographic to learn how financial services organizations can protect their data in the digital age.
Read MoreDon’t Buy Into Putin’s Latest Misdirection on Election Hacking
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 23:24:55 +0000
Vladimir Putin says “patriotic” Russian hackers may meddle in elections, but he’s just creating more noise. The post Don’t Buy Into Putin’s Latest Misdirection on Election Hacking appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreSpotting fake reviews – have healthy online skepticism
Credit to Author: Jean Taggart| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:00:01 +0000
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| In this blog, we discuss techniques to detect fake reviews, fake reviewers, and shady online image management techniques. Categories: Tags: review sitesshillshill reviewssockpuppets |
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Read MoreDigital Transformation in Healthcare and How Fabric Security Solutions Can Assist
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Credit to Author: Jonathan Nguyen-Duy| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 06:24:03 -0700
Whether it’s healthcare, or any of the other 16 sectors of critical national infrastructure, enterprises responsible for some of our most important cyber assets are undergoing some sort of digital transformation. At its core, digital transformation in business is really about moving from intuitive to data-driven decision making to gain new insights, provide essential services, and drive exponential growth. Over the past few years, the healthcare sector and other industries have been focused on four major objectives related to digital transformation: Move…
Read MoreByline: Healthcare in the Crosshairs
Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 06:22:23 -0700
Healthcare systems are consistently a preferred target of cybercriminals. Today, whenever a cyberattack occurs, healthcare networks seem to be right in the crosshairs. There are reasons for this. Historically, healthcare networks have been reasonablely easy to break into. Despite the implementation of new EHR systems and critical infrastructure for healthcare data exchanges, healthcare generally hasn’t kept up with other vertical markets in terms of security, creating “low-hanging fruit” for would-be attackers. These networks…
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