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Listen to your employees or deal with shadow IT

Data leakage, compliance breaches, business inefficiency and hidden costs are just some of the risks organizations are leaving themselves open to by not meeting the IT demands …

Huge IT Slider WordPress plugin opens SQL injection hole

The 50,000+ active users of the Huge IT Slider WordPress plugin are advised to update to the latest version, as it closes a vulnerability that can be exploited by website …

New crypto-ransomware encrypts video games files

A new piece of ransomware that (mis)uses the Cryptolocker “brand” has been analyzed by Bromium researchers, and they discovered that aside from the usual …

CS:GO players targeted with phishing attempt, malware

Typosquatting is an effective means to trick users into believing they have landed on the legitimate site they wanted to visit, so it’s no wonder that it’s often …

2,400 unsafe mobile apps found in average large enterprise

The average global enterprise has approximately 2,400 unsafe applications installed in its mobile environment, according to Veracode. Based on an analysis of hundreds of …

Cyber crooks take advantage of ad bidding networks to deliver ransomware

Malware peddlers are taking advantage of real time advertising bidding networks to deliver ransomware to unsuspecting users, FireEye researchers are warning. “Real Time …

Analysis of Equation Group’s espionage platform discovers another link to the NSA

Kaspersky Lab researchers continue to analyze the software and digital artifacts tied to the Equation Group, a nation-state threat actor that has been active for almost twenty …

How much pressure do infosec professionals face?

Businesses were under increased pressure to secure their organizations in 2014 and expect that pressure to increase in 2015, according to Trustwave. Survey respondents also …

As confidence sinks, cyber attacks rise

While IT security spending is increasing, confidence is falling. In surveying more than 800 security decision makers and practitioners, the CyberEdge Group found that more …

False positive free online web application security scanner from Netsparker

Netsparker launched their new enterprise online service offering Netsparker Cloud, which enables organizations to simultaneously scan hundreds and thousands of websites for …

Microsoft patches flaw exploited by Stuxnet – again

Among the vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft in this month’s Patch Tuesday is one that was supposedly patched back in 2010. The Windows Shell Shortcut Icon Loading …

Flaw in Dropbox SDK for Android lets attackers steal data sent to users’ account

Researchers from IBM’s security team have discovered an authentication flaw in the Dropbox Software Development Kit (SDK) for Android that can be exploited to capture …

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