November 2016

Bug in Chrome for mobile exploited for drive-by Android malware downloads
Users of the mobile version of Google Chrome should be extra careful when faced with unsolicited offers to install a popular app, Kaspersky Lab researchers warn. Cyber crooks …

Dutch police takes over darknet market, posts warning
As law enforcement agencies around the world continue taking down online markets on the Dark Web, the Dutch National Police and the nation’s Public Prosecution Service …

Review: The Basics of Cyber Safety
About the authors John Sammons is an Associate Professor and Director of the undergraduate program in Digital Forensics and Information Assurance at Marshall University in …

Apocalypse now: The IoT DDoS threat
One of the things you learn about humanity, if you’re paying attention, is that “gold rushes” bring out the worse in us. When there are no constraints and there is a greed …

Securing Black Friday sales: Is your business ready?
Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the US, well-known for a variety of promotional sales. These are dependent on Internet connections working, servers …

IT spending in EMEA will grow in 2017
Gartner forecasts that IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will total $1.25 trillion in 2017, a 1.9 percent increase from 2016. IT spending across all the …

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson to keynote RSA Conference 2017
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson will be part of the keynote lineup of speakers for RSA Conference 2017 in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Tyson’s professional research interests are broad, but …

Tech support scammers use old bug to freeze browsers
Tech support scammers are exploiting a bug that maxes out users’ CPU and memory capability and effectively freezes the browser and possibly the computer, in an attempt …

20,000 affected by Tesco Bank security breach
It’s been a rough weekend for 20,000 customers of British retail Tesco Bank: they’ve witnessed their bank accounts being plundered and have been phoning the bank …

14 arrested for laundering millions stolen with malware
The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) has arrested fourteen individuals suspected of laundering more than £11 million stolen through the use of malware. The money was stolen …

Exposing voting machine vulnerabilities
Cylance announced the successful exploitation of critical vulnerabilities in a common model of voting machine. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities was previously thought …

CloudConnect: Enabling the Industrial Internet of Things
In this podcast recorded at IoT Solutions World Congress Barcelona 2016, Andrew Ginter, VP of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security, talks about Unidirectional …
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