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Risks from fraudulent mobile apps and unauthorized app stores

Companies spanning retailers, travel companies, media & entertainment, gambling firms and banks have far more mobile apps owned by them or referencing their brand than …

Newly patched Flash Player bug exploited to deliver crypto ransomware

“It took less than a week for a functional exploit for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability to be added to the Magnitude exploit kit, Trend Micro …

Reactions to the LastPass breach

LastPass, the company behind the popular password management service of the same name, has announced that they have suffered a breach, and has urged users to verify their …

Google announces reward program for Android bugs

Google has announced that it will start paying researchers for information about vulnerabilities affecting Android.The Android Security Rewards are incremental. “For …

How trustworthy are the world’s leading websites?

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) evaluated nearly 1,000 websites, grading them based on dozens of criteria in three categories: consumer protection, privacy and security.Their …

90% of companies benefit from Big Data

Enterprise Big Data strategies are delivering key benefits to organizations despite noted challenges in implementation, according to CA Technologies.Nine in 10 organizations …

LastPass breached, hashed master passwords compromised

LastPass, the company behind the popular password management service of the same name, has announced on Monday that they have suffered a breach, and has urged users to verify …

Trojan uses steganography to hide itself in image files

“The Dell SecureWorks CTU research team has recently analyzed a piece of malware that uses digital steganography to hide part of its malicious code. Stegoloader, as they …

Stolen Foxconn certs used to sign malware used in Kaspersky Lab attack

“After last week’s revelation that their corporate network has been hit by APT actors wielding a newer version of the infamous, Stuxnet-related Duqu attack …

Emojis instead of PIN codes as an alternative for forgetful users

For years now companies have been trying to come up with alternatives to passwords and passcodes that will be easier to remember (for users) and more difficult to guess or …

Rethinking security: Securing activities instead of computers

For many people involved in the infosecurity community, the notion of security is too often tied to the quality of code (resistance to specific classes of bug, for example) …

Stronger data protection rules for Europe

More than 90% of Europeans are concerned about mobile apps collecting their data without their consent. Today, an important step was taken to finalize EU data protection rules …

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