Week in review: Car hacking and hijacking, critical Windows flaws, and Forbes.com compromise
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Which kind of security professional are you? Since I became a part of the …
Scammers pushing fake AdwCleaner in active scareware campaign
An active scareware campaign pushing a fake version of the popular freeware spyware removal tool AdwCleaner is targeting Windows users and is trying to get them to fork over …
How to enable two-step verification for iMessages and FaceTime
After having added a two-step verification feature to allow users to secure their iCloud (Apple ID) accounts, and extending the protection to iCloud backups last September, …
16 million mobile devices infected by malware
Security threats to mobile and residential devices and attacks on communications networks rose in 2014, threatening personal and corporate privacy and information. …
The limits of prevention-centric security programs
In an analysis of tens of thousands of malicious files, Damballa discovered that it can take more than six months for traditional AV tools to create signatures for 100% of the …
Phishing attacks increasingly target financial data
28.8 percent of phishing attacks last year aimed to steal financial data from consumers, according to a new report by Kaspersky Lab. The results show how cybercriminals have …
IT security training is a top priority for CIOs
CIOs are taking a multipronged approach to protecting sensitive company information, and the majority are currently taking or planning to take steps in the next 12 months to …
VirusTotal sets up huge AV whitelist to minimize false positives
One of the worst things that can happen to a software developer, and especially if they are a small firm or a single individual, is for their program to be falsely detected as …
Attackers can bypass Windows’ protections by changing a single bit
Among the many vulnerabilities that Microsoft patched on Tuesday is one that can be exploited to bypass all Windows security measures by, curiously enough, modifying a single …
Increase in enterprise cloud adoption and data risk
Skyhigh Networks analyzed actual cloud usage data from over 15 million enterprise employees across 350 enterprises. Although they found a record high percentage of cloud …
Improved Simplocker variant hits Android users hard
Mobile crypto-ransomware Simplocker has evolved, and returning the encrypted files to their unencrypted state is no longer easy as it was. First spotted in June 2014, …
A closer look at LepideAuditor Suite
Server systems are the pillars of an organization’s working environment, and they should be up and running at all times, without any interruptions. If a server crashes …
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