Cox Communications to pay $595,000 for data breach
The Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau has entered into a $595,000 settlement with Cox Communications to resolve an investigation into whether the company …
Final TalkTalk breach tally: 4% of customers affected
TalkTalk continues with its practice of updating the public with information regarding the recent data breach on Fridays, and according to the latest update, the total number …
Guide to application whitelisting
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a guide to deploying automated application whitelisting to help thwart malicious software from gaining …
Week in review: DDoS attack on ProtonMail, 0-days found in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles:Surviving in the IoT world: Risks of smart home devicesInvestigating some …
Cheap OmniRAT malware used to spy on Android, Windows, Linux, Mac devices
European law enforcement agencies recently targeted users of the DroidJack mobile phone RAT, and likely made other would-be users refrain from buying and using that particular …
Most employees are not malicious, but their carelessness can be just as damaging
The results of a new Loudhouse survey show a disconnect between employees and IT within an organization with 73 percent of U.S. employees believing their company provides …
Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues
Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users …
A new, streamlined version of Cryptowall is doing rounds
Cryptowall 4 (although the number is not mentioned in the new, changed ransom note) is not drastically different from version 3. According to malware researcher Nathan Scott, …
Surviving in the IoT world: Risks of smart home devices
Investigating some of the latest Internet-of-Things (IoT) products, Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered serious threats to the connected home. These include a …
It’s official! People want a more trustworthy Internet
As part of a major research effort, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) unveiled cumulative data from their online survey of more than 100,000 …
IT priorities are changing: Cloud-first strategy to rise
Bitglass conducted an survey of nearly 100 IT leaders attending the Gartner Symposium IT Expo in Orlando, Fla. to better understand their top challenges for 2016 and how they …
Sale of legitimate code-signing certs booms on darknet markets
In the underground cybercrime economy, many players have specialized in one or two skills and services. It should come as no surprise, then, that some have become experts at …
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