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Mobile Menace Monday: Adware MobiDash gets stealthy
April 24, 2012 – The fight against malware is a cat-and-mouse game. It is constant and constantly …
24 Sentenced in India-Based Call Center Operation
Twenty-one people were sentenced last week for an India-based fraud and money-laundering scheme that tricked US residents out of hundreds …
Know Your (Digital) Customer
In the wake of so many mega-breaches, new account fraud is easier to perpetrate than account takeovers. This puts new pressure on …
Redoubling Efforts to Secure Midterm Election
With the topic of election security buzzing, Elvis Chan of the FBI has two primary concerns about midterm elections: The cybersecurity of …
London Calling with New Strategies to Stop Ransomware
Website security begins with having a confirmed identity of the website owner to prevent phishing attacks. Without it, online users are at …
Egyptian ‘Fake News’ Law Threatens Citizens with 5000-plus Followers
Do you or someone you know lives in Egypt and holds an account on Facebook, Twitter, or/and other social media platforms with more than …
Is Blockchain a Database?
This video takes a look at the differences and similarities between blockchain and a traditional database form. …
Nation-State Spear Phishing Attacks Remain Alive and Well
Spear phishing attacks are in the news again following the Justice Department’s indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers for …
Robotics supplier’s sloppy security leaks ten years’ worth of data from major car manufacturers
Security researchers have discovered sensitive data from over 100 manufacturing companies left exposed online for anyone to access. The …
Software supply chain attacks set to become a major threat
According to a new study, 80 percent of IT decision makers and IT security professionals believe software supply chain attacks have the …
F5 Networks appoints Michel Combes to board of directors
F5 Networks announced the appointment of Michel Combes, CEO of Sprint, to its board of directors. Combes joins F5’s board as a leader …
Accenture forms alliance and invests in Ripjar
Accenture has formed an alliance with Ripjar, and has made an investment in Ripjar through Accenture Ventures. The move will expand …
FileZilla® Pro Announces Google Drive Integration
Cloud protocols supported by popular file access and transfer system include Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure, and …
Major sites still largely lax on prompting users towards safer password choices, study finds
Some of the Internet’s biggest names largely fall short of nudging users towards safer choices when they create or change their …
UK spies broke law for 15 years, but what can you do? shrugs judge
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has re-ruled that GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 engaged in indiscriminate and illegal bulk cable-tapping surveillance …
Google Chrome: HTTPS by default D-Day is tomorrow, folks
Google Chrome users who visit unencrypted websites will be confronted with warnings from tomorrow. The changes will come for surfers using …
Google: Security Keys Neutered Employee Phishing
Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began …
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter make leaving easier
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter are working together on a joint open-source project to help their users move their data between …
Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing
Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began …
Foreign Secretaries Illegally Handed GCHQ Data Request Powers
A new Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruling has exposed the inadequacy of current oversight mechanisms meant to keep the surveillance …
Shrug ransomware victim? Here’s how to retrieve your locked files for free
Shrug ransomware victim? Here’s how to retrieve your locked files for free ‘Newbie’ malicious developers have a go at building and …
Mobile security – how to have your cake and eat it [PODCAST]
Here’s #5 of last week’s Security SOS Week podcasts, right here #ICYMI. In this …
Security: The job sucks
But with the right steps, this job doesn’t have to suck. Keep the lines of communication open with fellow security leaders, find signals …
DOJ to publicly disclose election tampering schemes
In the months leading up to the 2016 US presidential election, how many of us knew that Russia was tinkering with the race? …or that …
On EUD Guidance and version numbers
I've received a few questions lately about what you should do if we don't have EUD guidance available for the …
Most Important Cybersecurity Consideration to Secure Your Company’s Integrity
When it comes to cybersecurity then no any business would be able to ignore it! In fact, if we consider the reports of Verizon Data Breach …
WhatsApp limits message forwarding in response to lynchings
Don’t allow these persons in [the] red car to escape. They are child …
How Pivoting Can Help Your Incident Response Process
Indicators of compromise (IoCs) are key data points used during an incident response process. Your organization’s response handlers will …
Baseball Cap Triggers Hacker Conference Ructions
A row over a baseball cap triggered a bitter dispute at a hacker conference over the weekend, with 13 leading organisations writing to …
Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time. Monday 16 July 2018 Facebook …
Google launches ‘Data Transfer Project’ to make it easier to switch services
A lot of new online services are cropping up every day, making our life a lot easier. But it is always harder for users to switch to …
Hackers stole personal, medication data of a quarter of Singaporeans
Hackers have breached Singapore’s health service and have stolen personal information of some 1.5 million patients. They have also …
Google’s Data Transfer Project Lets You Directly Transfer Data Between Services
A lot of new online services are cropping up every day, making our life a lot easier. But it is always harder for users to switch to …
Emotet Trojan on the Market as Hack Groups Become Malware Mercenaries
Mealybug, the hacker group behind the 2017 Emotet banking malware attacks, have redefined their organisation’s business model and now …
Top Three Considerations in Securing an IoT Infrastructure Framework
We closed the previous article about choosing a framework for IoT infrastructure with some indications of some of the requisite security …
Do AI Bots Need Some Regulations?
Look around and you will realize that artificial intelligence (AI) has found a place in almost every aspect of our daily functioning and is …