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Free iPhone app for encrypted phone calls released

There is finally a free alternative for all iOS users who are looking to encrypt their voice calls: the app is called Signal, and has been developed by the Open Whisper …

375 million customer records compromised in 2014

Between April and June of this year, there were a total of 237 breaches that compromised more than 175 million customer records of personal and financial information …

6 best practices to assure PCI compliance

With recent PCI DSS compliance incidents costing companies millions of pounds in fines and losses and inflicting damage to valuable brand reputations, Netwrix is urging …

97% of Global 2000 remain vulnerable to due to Heartbleed

97 percent of Global 2000 organizations’ public-facing servers remain vulnerable to cyber attacks due to incomplete Heartbleed remediation, according to Venafi. This …

Continuous monitoring for enterprise incident response

Qualys has further bolstered its Continuous Monitoring (CM) cloud service. The latest features include automated alerts for changes in perimeter IP addresses, as well as a new …

Researchers successfully attack Android through device’s speaker

A group of researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong have demonstrated that even applications with zero permissions can be used to launch attacks that allow …

Android Fake ID bug allows malware to impersonate trusted apps

The Bluebox Security research team has unearthed another critical Android vulnerability. Named “Fake ID,” the security bug can be used by malicious applications to …

I2P patched against de-anonymizing 0-day, Tails integration still to follow

Developers of the I2P anonymous networking tool have released a new version (0.9.14) of the tool that fixes XSS and remote execution vulnerabilities reported by Exodus …

AV engines are riddled with exploitable bugs

A security researcher has found a great number of exploitable vulnerabilities in popular security solutions and the AV engines they use, proving not only that AV engines are …

Android ransomware attacks on the increase

CYREN researchers predict that a large wave of Android ransomware has yet to hit. Two cases of first-ever Android ransomware appeared thus far this year, both delivered via …

The value of Bring Your Own Identity

New research shows that both the lines of business and IT departments see value in Bring Your Own Identity (BYOID) initiatives, where social networking or digital IDs are used …

Russian government offers money for Tor-cracking tech

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) has published a tender offering $111,000 to any Russian company or organization that can provide technology that can …

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