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As the end-of-the-year holidays are quickly approaching, people are starting to order more things (read: gifts for themselves and loved ones) online so that they can avoid the …

Researchers from Tencent’s Xuanwu Lab have proved that a specially crafted barcode can be used to execute commands on a target system, saddle it with malware, or perform …

Google Chrome users will from now on be faced with a new, customized warning every time they visit a website/page that contains social engineering content:“The threat …

A new IDC study of 300 large UK companies found that: 96% of UK firms already use threat intelligence products and services; all of those surveyed intend to do so within the …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles:Ivan Ristic and SSL Labs: How one man changed the way we understand SSL“When I …

Google has partnered with University of Michigan and the University of Illinois, and they have been trying to discover, for the last couple of years, how email security has …

A security researcher has created a tool that allows botnet masters to control their botnet by simply sending out commands via Twitter accounts.“I mostly wanted to …

After having been ruled invalid by the ECJ, the Safe Habor Agreement is now back in the spotlight as the Commission has finally issued a communication on the Trans-Atlantic …

From July to September, ThreatMetrix detected more than 90 million attempted attacks across industries, representing a 20 percent increase over the previous quarter. This …

A variety of both positive and negative factors influence the expenses organizations incur as a result of breach, according to the SANS Institute. A lot of it depends on their …

A vast collection containing metadata of over 70 million records of phone calls placed by prisoners to at least 37 US states and links to actual recordings for each call has …

Not only do Vizio’s Smart TVs track users’ viewing habits by default (and that information is sold to third parties who can then use it to deliver targeted ads to …