Flash-based rogue AV targets users
The business of pushing rogue AV software onto unsuspecting users is quite lucrative, so it’s no wonder that cyber crooks are still doing it. But while most of the time …
Megaupload users targeted with extortion scheme
The recent shutdown of the Megaupload file hosting service by the US authorities is being actively exploited by cyber crooks who are attempting to extort money from the …
Call center employees are selling user information
Indian call center employees sell confidential data belonging to users for as little as $0.03, reports the Daily Mail. According to the news outlet, reporters from The Sunday …
Plan to reduce botnets launched
More than one in ten U.S. computers are infected by difficult-to-detect bots, which botmasters can use for anything from sending spam, to eavesdropping on network traffic, to …
Ghost in the Wires
Kevin Mitnick accessed computers and networks at the world’s biggest companies – and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone …
The sorry state of web-based single sign-on services
Web-based single sign-on services are becoming increasingly popular, as they offer a better and simpler user experience. But are they secure? The question was asked by team of …
Data breach vulnerabilities in the workplace
Many business professionals don’t realize that when their company’s confidential information is at risk, so too is the information of its clients, vendors, …
LockPath and Qualys partner on risk intelligence
LockPath, a provider of GRC applications, and Qualys, a provider of cloud information security and compliance management solutions, announced an integration partnership to …
Voice analysis technology prevents phone scams
Nagoya University and Fujitsu developed the first technology to analyze phone conversations to automatically detect situations in which one party might “over …
Top U.S. cities for phone loss
The findings from a phone loss study revealed that lost phones, if unrecovered, could cost U.S. consumers more than $30 billion this year. The analysis, from more than 15 …
Mozilla testing default Google search encryption in Firefox
Firefox users should soon have encryption turned on by default when searching for things online via the built-in Google search engine, Mozilla confirmed. The change has been …
Top cause of data breaches? Negligent insiders
Negligent insiders are the top cause of data breaches while malicious attacks are 25 percent more costly than other types, according to the Ponemon Institute. The study also …
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