160,000 new malware samples appear each day
Malware is still being created at the record levels reached in the previous quarter: 15 million new samples were generated, at an average rate of 160,000 every day, according …
Expert international cybercrime taskforce tackles online crime
Hosted at the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), which is being piloted for six months, will coordinate international …
70% of IT pros experience weekly phishing attacks
69 percent of IT professionals experience phishing attacks at least once a week, with customer data cited most often as the type of data attacked, followed by financial …
eBook: BYOD Policy Roadmap
Every business needs a clearly articulated position on BYOD, even if it chooses not to allow for it. What’s your position? Do you even have one? If you’re …
Week in review: PoS security, the Black Hat Arsenal, and securing the U.S. electrical grid
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts, interviews and articles: Securing the U.S. electrical grid The Center for the Study of …
Heartbleed still a critical threat
Cyber attackers have been quick to exploit the Hearbleed OpenSSL bug, to the tune of hundreds of thousand attacks per day in the week after the public revelation of its …
JPMorgan attackers altered bank records
The number of US banks that have apparently been targeted and breached by hackers is slowly rising, as newer reports say that seven financial organizations have been hit. …
Google reassures enterprise users with independent security audits
Google is doing everything it can to restore the confidence in its products that some users lost in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA spying. Among …
A closer look at Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner automatically checks your web applications for SQL Injection, XSS and other web vulnerabilities. Features: AcuSensor Technology SQL …
Phishers targeting crypto currency and retail sites
Online payment services and crypto-currency sites are being targeted by phishers. The number of phishing attacks remained high, and the second quarter of 2014 saw the …
Netflix open sources tools for detecting planned attacks
Making good on their word to open source many of their internally developed tools and libraries, Netflix has released three new tools that allow security teams to keep an eye …
DHS urges website admins to minimize risk of Google hacking
It’s a widely known fact that Google Search is a valuable tool for attackers looking for a way into organizations’ information systems. “Google …