Amazon will stop accepting Flash ads on its advertising network on Tuesday, and it will help make the entire Web more secure, security experts say.According to Amazon, the move was prompted by a recent update from Google Chrome that limited how Flas…
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The average 10,000-employee company spends $3.7 million a year dealing with phishing attacks, according to a new report from the Ponemon Institute.The report, which surveyed 377 IT professionals in companies ranging in size from less than 100 to ove…
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Just 1 percent of employees are responsible for 75 percent of cloud-related enterprise security risk, and companies can dramatically reduce their exposure at very little additional cost by paying extra attention to these users.According to newly-rel…
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More than 70 percent of Android phones from LG have a plugin installed that exposes them to the Certifi-gate remote support app vulnerability, where a rogue application — or even a text message — can completely take over a device.
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To get more value out of stolen personal information, cybercriminals doubled their rate of account creation fraud this summer, according to a report report from NuData Security.Between May and July, 57 percent of the 500 million account creations an…
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When a security incident involves virtual machines in either a public or private cloud environment, the recovery costs double compared to that of a traditional environment, according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab.In a survey of 5,500 companies …
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CrytoLocker is malware cyber criminals use to encrypt the contents of a computer until users pay up.But that’s only one type of cyber extortion, according to Tim Francis, enterprise cyber lead at Hartford, Conn.-based insurance company Travelers.Cri…
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Digital rights management might be coming back to the enterprise, experts say, as long as usability issues don’t get in the way.You might remember the technology from a decade or so ago. Companies were worried about employees accidentally sending se…
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The war against Islamic State has resulted in a cyber attack on US soil, and other such attacks are likely, according to a new report from Bat Blue Networks.According to the security firm, the cyber vandalism of websites for a sheriff’s office and c…
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The number of distributed denial-of-service attacks in the second quarter of this year was more than double that of last year, according to a new report from Akamai.The number of megasized attacks, larger than 100 gigabits per second, also doubled, …
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As information security becomes a more important topic of interest for corporate boards, CISOs are increasingly asked to step up and brief boards on cyber issues — which means they need to become better communicators, and have a broader understandi…
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Traditionally, blacklists of malicious IP addresses are assembled using honeypots and intrusion detection systems but a new approach, analyzing chatter on the dark and open Web, can find malicious addresses that would have been otherwise missed.Acco…
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Darkhotel — the elite spying group discovered luxury hotels’ Wi-Fi networks last year — is back with new targets, new defensive capabilities, and a new zero-day exploit courtesy of the Hacking Team leak.According to a report released Monday by Kas…
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Darkhotel — the elite spying group discovered luxury hotels’ Wi-Fi networks last year — is back with new targets, new defensive capabilities, and a new zero-day exploit courtesy of the Hacking Team leak.According to a report released Monday by Kas…
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LAS VEGAS — The growth of the Internet of Things will offer new ransomware opportunities for cybercriminals, according to a report released Thursday by Symantec.
Researchers were able repackage existing Android ransomware — Android.Simplocker — inside a new Android Wear project, and when the phone was infected, so was a paired smartwatch. Once executed, the ransomware made the watch unusable, and also encrypted files stored on the watch’s SD card.
Researchers said they haven’t seen any examples of this kind of ransomware in the wild yet.
According to a report by Symantec researcher Kevin Savage, cybercriminals switch their focus to a different malware type approximately every two or three years of reaching a peak.
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