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Parents fear their kids are exposed to online threats

More than a quarter (27 per cent) of parents believe their children have been exposed to online risks, such as accessing inappropriate content or cyber bullying in the past 12 …

As crimeware evolves, phishing attacks increase

The number of phishing campaigns increased by more than 20 percent in the third quarter of 2013, with crimeware attacks evolving and proliferating, according to the APWG. The …

Microsoft patches critical vulnerabilities, secures IE

At first take, it looked like Microsoft would continue the 2014 trend of keeping patch Tuesday relatively light. There were only 5 advisories this month, two critical, three …

Security concerns holding back data center consolidation

Security concerns are preventing businesses from unlocking the potential benefits of data center consolidation and cloud services, according to SafeNet. The research, which is …

Older Flash Player vulnerability exploited in the wild

Microsoft researchers have also recently discovered several attacks in the wild exploiting another Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2013-5330) on Windows, Linux and OS X. This …

Microsoft introduces multifactor authentication for all Office 365 users

In a praiseworthy move, Microsoft has extended the multifactor authentication option to all users of Office 365, its popular subscription-based online office software suite. …

DDoS attack toolkit simplifies the launch of large reflection attacks

Prolexic Technologies issued a high alert DDoS attack threat advisory on the DNS Flooder v1.1 toolkit. The toolkit makes it faster and easier for malicious actors to launch …

Beware of Trojanized Flappy Bird game

Trojanized versions of Flappy Bird, the mega-popular iPhone and Android game that has recently been pulled from Google Play and Apple’s App Store by its creator, have …

Encryption use continues to grow

Use of encryption continues to grow in response to consumer concerns, privacy compliance regulations and on-going cyber attacks and yet there are still major challenges in …

Sophisticated cyber-espionage tool uncovered

Kaspersky Lab discovered “The Mask” (aka Careto), an advanced Spanish-language speaking threat actor that has been involved in global cyber-espionage operations …

LinkedIn does away with controversial email service

LinkedIn has announced that it’s doing away with some of its services, and among these is Intro, a tool that allowed iPhone users who installed it to view in the email …

Three US medical device makers breached?

The computer networks of three big medical device makers have been breached by still unknown attackers that were likely after the companies’ intellectual property, the …

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