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Spammers Get to Work: Tuesday is Prime Time
All in a week’s work: According to new research from IBM X-Force, Tuesday is the biggest day for spam.
Office 365 Campaign Attacks Companies from Within
Microsoft Office 365, which has more than 100 million monthly active subscribers—is the target of a widespread credential-harvesting campaign, where attackers attempt to steal logins and ultimately ...
Crypto-Ransomware Targets 20 Million Inboxes
Security researchers are warning of another major crypto-ransomware campaign which has so far been observed attacking 20 million user inboxes.
CyberSecurity Malaysia sounds 'trust and transparency' note at OIC-CERT AGM
National infosecurity agency CyberSecurity Malaysia has reconfirmed OIC-CERT's commitment to 'trust and transparency' at the 8th AGM and annual conference 2016 held recently in Saudi Arabia.
Hacker Mindset: SANS NetWars & Tools of the Trade
In my ongoing blog series “Hacker Mindset,” I’ll explore an attacker’s assumptions, methods and theory, including how information security professionals can apply this knowledge to increase ...
BSidesLV 2016: Mobile App Attack
Mobile devices are rapidly becoming the primary need of any user. Ease of use, portability, user-friendly GUI, robust computing, a wide variety of applications… all of these features makes a mobile ...
Social Media, Security and the Family
Sometimes we get so focused on protecting our IT infrastructures, we forget that our families are just as susceptible.
QUADROOTER: NEW ANDROID VULNERABILITIES IN OVER 900 MILLION DEVICES
Check Point today disclosed details about a set of four vulnerabilities affecting 900 million Android smartphones and tablets that use Qualcomm® chipsets. The Check Point mobile threat research team, ...
MICROSOFT WON’T FIX WINDOWS FLAW THAT LETS HACKERS STEAL YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD
The flaw, which allows a malicious website to extract user passwords, is made worse if a user is logged in with a Microsoft account.
BACKDOOR.REMVIO: HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE REMOTE ACCESS TROJAN SOLD ONLINE
The new Trojan can be used to steal information and passwords from compromised computers.
A FLAW IN SAMSUNG PAY COULD BE EXPLOITED TO REMOTELY SKIM CREDIT CARDS
he security expert Salvador Mendoza demonstrated that is it easy to steal Samsung Pay tokens and reuse them to make fraudulent purchases.
BACKDOOR.TEAMVIEWER.49
Crooks use your PC to hide their IP, funnel Web traffic. BackDoor.TeamViewer.49 is the name of a backdoor trojan discovered by Russian security vendor Dr.Web, who claims it will install the TeamViewer ...