Android dialler hides, resists attempts to remove it
A malicious dialler disguised as an application for adults could become a big problem for Android users, as the malware systematically removes traces of itself from the phone …
SIEM doesn’t reduce security incidents, say IT pros
A survey of IT professional has shown that most organisations don’t audit their IT infrastructures and those that do don’t have complete details of who changed …
Dyre malware targeting Swiss bank customers
The Dyre/Dyreza banking Trojan has lately become very popular with cyber criminals – so much so that the US-CERT has issued an alert warning about the danger. …
The security threat of unsanctioned file sharing
Organisational leadership is failing to respond to the escalating risk of ungoverned file sharing practices among their employees, and employees routinely breach IT policies …
Most orgs unprepared to handle a cyber incident
In the latest quarter, Solutionary SERT performed a broad analysis of the threat landscape, including information on the Shellshock and Aftershock vulnerabilities present in …
What’s jeopardizing the safety of your datacenter?
Datacenters are fraught with hidden operational hazards, and because virtual infrastructure is extremely complex and dynamic, many vulnerabilities go undetected and can be …
Cyber crime tool automates monetization of stolen payment cards
Cyber criminals who have acquired stolen payment card information and wish to make the most of them can now simply buy professional-looking software that will automate the …
Facebook open sources osquery, an OS analysis tool
Facebook has open sourced osquery, a framework that exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database and allows developers to write SQL-based queries to …
CurrentC mobile payment system hacked, user info stolen
CurrentC, the mobile payment service backed by the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), has suffered a data breach. “Within the last 36 hours, we learned that unauthorized …
Biggest ever cyber security exercise in Europe is underway
More than 200 organisations and 400 cyber-security professionals from 29 European countries are testing their readiness to counter cyber-attacks in a day-long simulation, …
Assume your Drupal 7 site has been compromised
Administrators of sites that run Drupal 7, and have not yet updated to version 7.32 or have done so later than 7 hours after the public revelation of the highly critical SQL …
Photo gallery: McAfee FOCUS 14
Help Net Security attended McAfee’s Annual Security Conference FOCUS 14 that has been held this week at The Venetian and the Palazzo Congress Center in Las Vegas. …
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