Week in review: Pokémon GO, flawed code hooking engines, Ubuntu Forums hacked again
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Preparing for new EU cybersecurity rules and regulations The Network and Information …
Decrypter for Locky-mimicking PowerWare ransomware released
Palo Alto Networks’ researchers have created a decrypter for the variant of the PoshCoder ransomware that imitates the Locky ransomware. Dubbed PowerWare by the …
Snowden wants you to know when your phone is revealing your location
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and hardware hacker Andrew “Bunnie” Huang have possibly come up with a solution for warning users when their phones are revealing their …
Victims of Tinder safe dating scam can lose a lot of money
Users of Tinder, the massively popular location-based dating app, are being targeted with a clever scam that may make them lose over a $100 per month. The Tinder safe dating …
Wi-Fi hack experiment conducted at Republican National Convention site
Avast security researchers conducted a Wi-Fi hack experiment at various locations around the Republican National Convention site in Cleveland to demonstrate how risky it can …
Cloud shift will affect $1 trillion in IT spending
More than $1 trillion in IT spending will be directly or indirectly affected by the shift to cloud during the next five years, said Gartner, Inc. This will make cloud …
Companies are unprepared to protect key assets
Knowledge assets are confidential information critical to a company’s core business – other than personal information that would trigger notice requirements under …
Andrus Ansip to keynote Borderless Cyber Europe
Today’s digital threats are more numerous and sophisticated than ever. As a result, many in the security industry feel organizations can no longer adequately defend …
Alleged Kickass Torrents owner arrested, site taken down
Artem Vaulin, a 30-year-old Ukrainian that is believed to be the creator and owner of Kickass Torrents, currently the most popular and most visited illegal file-sharing …
Dell SonicWALL GMS comes with hidden default account
While developing new audit modules for the company’s vulnerability scanning technology, Digital Defense researchers found six vulnerabilities in Dell’s SonicWALL …
Vulnerabilities affecting SAP HANA and SAP Trex put 10,000 customers at risk
Onapsis released new security advisories detailing vulnerabilities in SAP HANA and SAP Trex. Included in the advisories is a critical risk vulnerability that could be used to …
Cisco plugs critical flaw in data center operations management solution
Cisco has patched another critical vulnerability in its Unified Computing System Performance Manager software. Cisco UCS Performance Manager is a data center operations …
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