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Malicious spam volume hits two year high

According to the Kaspersky Lab Spam and Phishing in Q3 report, the company’s products blocked 73,066,751 attempts to attack users with malicious attachments. This is the …

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The cybersecurity gap between IT capabilities and business expectations

Deloitte has uncovered a shift in business priorities from “business performance” to “customers,” with 57 percent of chief information officers …

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A checklist for people who understand cyber security

By now, it’s pretty much an accepted reality that it’s only a matter of time until an organization – any organization – gets breached by cyber …

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Telecrypt ransomware uses Telegram for command and control

Telecrypt, a newly spotted piece of crypto ransomware that uses Telegram’s communication protocol to deliver the decryption key to the crooks, is targeting Russian-speaking …

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Will security concerns negatively impact the online holiday shopping season?

In a survey of over 1,900 consumers crossing the US and UK, Computop found 76 percent planned to shop online this holiday season. However, 62 percent of those respondents …

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GDPR privacy, preparations and understanding

A new GDPR privacy benchmarking study by IAPP and TRUSTe provides insight into how companies are preparing for the sweeping changes to privacy laws under the EU General Data …

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Number of vulnerable enterprises at five year record high

Enterprises across the globe are refreshing their network equipment earlier in its lifecycle in a move to embrace workplace mobility, Internet of Things, and software-defined …

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Pawn Storm raced to pop many targets before Windows zero-day patch release

As promised, Microsoft provided this Tuesday a patch for the Windows zero-day (CVE-2016-7855) actively exploited by the Strontium (aka Pawn Storm) cyber espionage hacking …

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Google Safe Browsing goes after repeat offenders

Google has had enough of sites that repeatedly endanger end users, either through malware, unwanted software, phishing or other social engineering and deceptive tactics. …

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Signal Protocol’s crypto core has no major flaws, researchers find

A group of computer science and cryptography professors and doctoral students has effected a security analysis of the secure messaging Signal Protocol – specifically, of …

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TrickBot banking Trojan is the next big threat

After months of testing, a new banking Trojan called TrickBot is being aggressively slung at owners of personal and business bank accounts in UK and Australia. …

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Increasing number of financial institutions falling prey to cyber attacks

66.2 percent of financial organizations faced at least one cybersecurity attack in the last year, according to MetricStream Research. The report, based on a survey conducted …

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