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Telecrypt ransomware uses Telegram for command and control

Telecrypt, a newly spotted piece of crypto ransomware that uses Telegram’s communication protocol to deliver the decryption key to the crooks, is targeting Russian-speaking …

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Will security concerns negatively impact the online holiday shopping season?

In a survey of over 1,900 consumers crossing the US and UK, Computop found 76 percent planned to shop online this holiday season. However, 62 percent of those respondents …

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GDPR privacy, preparations and understanding

A new GDPR privacy benchmarking study by IAPP and TRUSTe provides insight into how companies are preparing for the sweeping changes to privacy laws under the EU General Data …

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Number of vulnerable enterprises at five year record high

Enterprises across the globe are refreshing their network equipment earlier in its lifecycle in a move to embrace workplace mobility, Internet of Things, and software-defined …

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Pawn Storm raced to pop many targets before Windows zero-day patch release

As promised, Microsoft provided this Tuesday a patch for the Windows zero-day (CVE-2016-7855) actively exploited by the Strontium (aka Pawn Storm) cyber espionage hacking …

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Google Safe Browsing goes after repeat offenders

Google has had enough of sites that repeatedly endanger end users, either through malware, unwanted software, phishing or other social engineering and deceptive tactics. …

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Signal Protocol’s crypto core has no major flaws, researchers find

A group of computer science and cryptography professors and doctoral students has effected a security analysis of the secure messaging Signal Protocol – specifically, of …

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TrickBot banking Trojan is the next big threat

After months of testing, a new banking Trojan called TrickBot is being aggressively slung at owners of personal and business bank accounts in UK and Australia. …

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Increasing number of financial institutions falling prey to cyber attacks

66.2 percent of financial organizations faced at least one cybersecurity attack in the last year, according to MetricStream Research. The report, based on a survey conducted …

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Half of EMEA CIOs participating in a digital ecosystem

CIOs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are clearly engaging with the era of digital business, with 50 percent participating in a digital ecosystem and 65 percent …

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OAuth2.0 implementation flaw allows attackers to pop Android users’ accounts

Incorrect OAuth2.0 implementation by third party mobile app developers has opened users of those apps to account compromise, three researchers from the Chinese University of …

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Bug in Chrome for mobile exploited for drive-by Android malware downloads

Users of the mobile version of Google Chrome should be extra careful when faced with unsolicited offers to install a popular app, Kaspersky Lab researchers warn. Cyber crooks …

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