November 2016
Firefox Focus: Private iOS browsing made easy
Mozilla has released Firefox Focus, an iOS app that lets you browse the Internet without having to worry who’s tracking your online activity. The app can be used …
Riskiest shopping malls for mobile devices
As the biggest shopping weekend of the year in the US approaches, Skycure is advising shoppers to beware of mobile threats while browsing in both physical and online stores. …
Encryption ransomware hits record levels
The amount of phishing emails containing a form of ransomware grew to 97.25 percent during the third quarter of 2016 up from 92 percent in Q1. PhishMe’s Q3 2016 Malware Review …
New infosec products of the week: November 18, 2016
ThreatQuotient delivers threat intelligence platform for threat operations and management ThreatQ v2 has transformed the threat intelligence platform into a powerful …
Top risks identified across private cloud environments
Based on data gathered from over 100 enterprise environments over the past year, a Continuity Software study found that downtime and security risks were present in each cloud …
Business strategy and innovation framework for the industrial IoT
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the global, member-supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced …
Low-cost PoisonTap tool can compromise locked computers
A new attack tool devised by security researcher Samy Kamkar will leave you wishing you could take your computer with you everywhere you go. Dubbed PoisonTap, the tool …
Final warning: Popular browsers will soon stop accepting SHA-1 certificates
Starting with Chrome 56, planned to be released to the wider public at the end of January 2017, Google will remove support for SHA-1 certificates. Other browser makers plan to …
The new age of quantum computing
Quantum encryption is the holy grail of truly secure communications. If and when quantum computing becomes a widespread reality, many public-key algorithms will become …
Ransoc browser locker/ransomware blackmails victims
An unusual combination of browser locker and ransomware, dubbed Ransoc by researchers, is targeting users who visit adult sites. Ransoc targets victims’ reputation The …
The decline of cyber resilience: Organizations unprepared to face attacks
Only 32 percent of IT and security professionals say their organisation has a high level of cyber resilience – down slightly from 35 percent in 2015, according to a global …
Researchers identify domain-level service credential exploit
CyberArk Labs unveiled new research detailing what it considers to be a significant risk across all Windows endpoints, including those on Windows 10 with Credential Guard …
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