UK tax season threatened by phishing and malware attacks
Bitdefender has warned taxpayers to be cautious after discovering that a total of 10,000 tax-related spam emails were sent in a single day in the first week of March. The tax …
83% of businesses are not prepared for an online security incident
Arbor Networks announced the results of a survey on the issue of incident response preparedness. The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 360 senior business leaders, the …
You can now buy smartphones with preinstalled spyware
Did you know that instead of installing a spying app on a target’s phone, you can now gift them one with the app already preinstalled on it? MTechnology LTD has released …
Online tool for browsing and analyzing web-based malware
Barracuda Networks launched Threatglass, an online tool for sharing, browsing and analyzing web-based malware. It allows users to graphically browse website infections by …
IBM: We never shared client data with NSA
IBM is the latest tech giant to deny any involvement in NSA’s PRISM data collection program and to claim that they have not set up backdoors in their products. “In …
Digital devices used every day that could result in a security breach
Data breaches cost U.S. enterprises an average of $5.4 million per incident in 2012, according to the Ponemon Institute and Cintas Corporation. With the growing number of …
Mt. Gox CEO doxing was a ploy to spread Bitcoin-stealing malware
The recent hacking and defacing of the blog and Twitter account of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles, and the leaking of a 716 Mb archive file that allegedly contained trade data, …
Exploiting vulnerabilities in media players to spread advanced malware
Trusteer’s research has shown that vulnerable media players are constantly targeted by malicious actors. Since in most environments media players exist on users’ …
EU sets huge fines for firms who violate users’ privacy
MEPs inserted stronger safeguards for EU citizens’ personal data that gets transferred to non-EU countries in a major overhaul of the EU’s data protection laws …
US announces transition of oversight over Internet’s domain name system
The US Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions to …
New authenticated encryption algorithm is resistant to multiple misuse
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the University of Fukui have jointly developed an authenticated encryption algorithm offering …
Week in review: Target breach reaction fail, WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts, videos, interviews and articles: Latvia establishes a Cyber Defence Unit The newly …
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