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Kali Linux 2.0 released: New 4.0 kernel, improved hardware and wireless driver coverage
Kali Linux, the open source penetration testing platform, has reached version 2.0.Kali Linux 2.0 comes with a 4.0 kernel, now based on Debian Jessie. It features improved …
Top 10 U.S. cities for online fraud
Data reveals Tampa as the top hot spot for online fraud and ThreatMetrix found a correlation between top cities for fraud and those home to hosted data centers. The top 10 …
Darkhotel spying crew boosts attacks with Hacking Team exploit
Kaspersky Lab has discovered that the Darkhotel group, an elite spying crew uncovered by its experts in 2014 and famous for infiltrating Wi-Fi networks in luxury hotels to …
IoT devices: The good, the bad and the ugly
Cognosec has revealed critical security flaws in ZigBee, one of the most popular wireless communication standards used by Internet of Things (IoT) devices today.Speaking at …
Defending the enterprise in an increasingly complex environment
Technology has transformed the way organisations work and its evolution is now faster than ever before. The promise of IT transformation presents many opportunities for …
HTC phone stores fingerprints in easily accessible plaintext
Pressing a finger on your mobile phone’s fingerprint scanner has to be the easiest, most seamless way to unlock the device, and this is why more and more manufacturers …
Week in review: New OS X threats, and how to protect your privacy on Windows 10
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles:What’s the state of your software?In the face of the repeated high profile breaches of …
EFF’s Privacy Badger prevents users being tracked online
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally released version 1.0 of Privacy Badger, a browser extension that blocks some of the sneakiest trackers that try to spy on your …
The GasPot experiment: Hackers target gas tanks
Physically tampering with gasoline tanks is dangerous enough, given how volatile gas can be. Altering a fuel gauge can cause a tank to overflow, and a simple spark can set …
Vulnerabilities in 2015: 0-days, Android vs iOS, OpenSSL
Secunia has taken an early peek at the trend in vulnerabilities for 2015, and has presented the results at Black Hat USA 2015. Seven months into the year, the number of …
Getting BYOD right
According to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab in conjunction with B2B International, around half of the consumers surveyed also use their devices for work. However, only …
Disrupting trust models: An evolution in the financial services sector
The way we interact with service providers – whether travel organisations, music suppliers or retailers – has changed to be almost unrecognisable from five years’ ago. From …