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Week in review: OpenBSD team forks OpenSSL, tech giants to fund open source projects, VPN users endangered by Heartbleed
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews, articles and interviews: Supposedly patched router backdoor was simply hidden When …
Infosec problems create stress for IT departments
A new IT Admin Stress Survey from GFI Software revealed that 68% of IT staff are actively considering leaving their current role due to job-related stress, despite apparent …
Working to accomplish compliance and security
Organizations have until January 2015 to meet the new requirements of the PCI Data Security Standard version 3.0. Businesses need to ensure that compliance is cyclical and …
How cybercriminals profit from money laundering through gambling sites
A new report by McAfee sheds light on the underground world of online gambling. It identifies the proliferation of online casinos, an industry set to grow nearly 30% over the …
NetSupport vulnerabilty allows information leakage
NetSupport is an application that allows corporations to remotely manage and connect to PCs and servers from a central location, to provide desktop support. I wrote a script …
Hands on fun at HacKid 2014
Last weekend, families and tech industry leaders descended on The Tech Museum of innovation in San Jose, California, for HacKid 2014. We had a great turnout for the event …
Researchers spot SMS Trojan active in the US
For the first time ever, Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected an active SMS Trojan in the United States. The malware in question is an SMS-sending Android Trojan dubbed …
DrDoS attacks to reach 800 Gbps in 2015
While the network time protocol (NTP) DrDoS threats that became prevalent in early 2014 have been contained, new distributed reflected denial of service threats will lead to …
Mobile bad bots running across most top mobile operators
During 2013, Distil Networks fingerprinted and catalogued 2.2 billion bad bots, or 31 percent of the bad bots that exist in Distil’s database of 7-billion bad bots. Bad …
Learning from others
The old saying “one man’s misfortune is another man’s gain” is eminently applicable in the information security industry. When an organization becomes …
Exchanging threat intelligence becoming essential
A new Ponemon Institute survey included more than 700 IT and IT security pros, across businesses and government agencies with an average of 12,000 employees, who answered more …
Dissecting the unpredictable DDoS landscape
DDoS attacks are now more unpredictable and damaging than ever, crippling websites, shutting down operations, and costing millions of dollars in downtime, customer support and …
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