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Crypto-ransomware continues to be a very effective way for cyber crooks to “earn” serious money: the method is so lucrative that with a single campaign, the crooks …

IT security “fire drills’, supported by executive management and the risk committee should be conducted regularly in organizations, in order to understand the …

When the Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox Live gaming networks went down over Christmas and were kept offline for several days afterwards, the hacker collective that calls …

Microsoft is not pleased with Google’s recent release of the details of a zero-day Windows 8.1 vulnerability and the code that can be used to exploit it, and has …

Critical company data is at risk in the UK as a result of organizations focusing their IT security policies and resources more on external threats, such as cybercriminals and …

Week in review: Bitstamp hack, and global defense-in-depth architectures analyzed Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and …

Three weeks ago, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) released its traditional end-of-the-year report about the state of IT security in Germany. It …

A researcher has discovered a security hole in the firmware of several wireless Asus router models which could be exploited by an attacker to gain complete control of the …

The OpenSSL Project has released updates for the popular eponymous open-source library that implements the SSL and TLS protocols. The new releases – 1.0.1k, 1.0.0p and …

Microsoft’s Advanced Notification Service (ANS), which for over a decade provided advanced warning about the patches and updates that the company would push out on its …

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) surveyed more than 200 IT and security professionals, and nearly 72 percent admitted that they did not know the number of shadow IT apps …

Attackers are bypassing conventional security deployments almost at will, breaching systems in a wide swath of industries and geographies. That’s the stark conclusion of …