Surge in global cloud application adoption
Cloud application adoption across all industries increased more than 71 percent in 2015, according to Bitglass. Their global report was compiled through an automated, …
Rackspace CSO on security: It’s time to go back to the fundamentals
Although less sexy, it is time to get back to the fundamentals. And it is this call to action that forms the basis of my 2016 predictions. Simplify and streamline security: …
Comcast users hit with malvertising, malware and tech support scam all in one go
Another tech support scam / ransomware campaign combo has been launched at users, but this time the order of delivery is reversed. The intended victims are the customers of …
GCHQ open sources Gaffer, a data collection and mining framework
GCHQ, the UK equivalent of the US National Security Agency (NSA), has released on Monday the source code of Gaffer, a graph database that optimised for “retrieving data …
Critical Joomla RCE bug actively exploited, patch immediately!
An eight-year-old Joomla critical remote code execution vulnerability, which is being actively exploited in attacks in the wild, has been patched by the developers of the …
13 million MacKeeper users exposed in data breach
The company pushing MacKeeper, the security and utility software suite for Macs many consider to be scareware, has confirmed that the database containing passwords and …
Fake “account verification” email targeting Alibaba.com users
Businesses who use Alibaba.com to connect with Chinese manufacturers are being targeted in a recently discovered phishing campaign, Comodo warns. It takes the form of phishing …
Operation targets users of remote access trojans across Europe
In December, Europol and a number of law enforcement and judicial authorities across Europe carried out a two weeks long coordinated action against the use of remote access …
Vuvuzela: An untraceable messaging system aimed at thwarting powerful adversaries
A group of scientists from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) believe they have created an effective and scalable text-messaging system …
Twitter users warned about being targeted by state-sponsored attacks
Twitter has sent out unexpected warning notices to a number of users, informing them that their account might have been targeted by state-sponsored hackers. “We believe …
Are your competitors organizing DDoS attacks against you?
According to recent research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, nearly half (48 per cent) of the companies surveyed believe they know the identity and motivation of …
Cybercriminals increasingly hunting down the money
The tools used by cyber-criminals against businesses in 2015 were different to those used against consumers, according to Kaspersky Lab’s review of corporate threats in …