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Stolen or lost devices and the risks of remote working

44 percent of organizations believe a member of their senior management has lost a mobile device in the last year, whilst 39 percent say senior management had a device …

Cox Communications to pay $595,000 for data breach

The Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau has entered into a $595,000 settlement with Cox Communications to resolve an investigation into whether the company …

Final TalkTalk breach tally: 4% of customers affected

TalkTalk continues with its practice of updating the public with information regarding the recent data breach on Fridays, and according to the latest update, the total number …

Guide to application whitelisting

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a guide to deploying automated application whitelisting to help thwart malicious software from gaining …

Week in review: DDoS attack on ProtonMail, 0-days found in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles:Surviving in the IoT world: Risks of smart home devicesInvestigating some …

Cheap OmniRAT malware used to spy on Android, Windows, Linux, Mac devices

European law enforcement agencies recently targeted users of the DroidJack mobile phone RAT, and likely made other would-be users refrain from buying and using that particular …

Most employees are not malicious, but their carelessness can be just as damaging

The results of a new Loudhouse survey show a disconnect between employees and IT within an organization with 73 percent of U.S. employees believing their company provides …

Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues

Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users …

A new, streamlined version of Cryptowall is doing rounds

Cryptowall 4 (although the number is not mentioned in the new, changed ransom note) is not drastically different from version 3. According to malware researcher Nathan Scott, …

Surviving in the IoT world: Risks of smart home devices

Investigating some of the latest Internet-of-Things (IoT) products, Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered serious threats to the connected home. These include a …

It’s official! People want a more trustworthy Internet

As part of a major research effort, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) unveiled cumulative data from their online survey of more than 100,000 …

IT priorities are changing: Cloud-first strategy to rise

Bitglass conducted an survey of nearly 100 IT leaders attending the Gartner Symposium IT Expo in Orlando, Fla. to better understand their top challenges for 2016 and how they …

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