cybersecurity

A new zero-day vulnerability has been discovered that allows Android or Linux applications to escalate privileges and gain root access, according to a report released this morning by Perception Point.”This affects all Android phones KitKat and highe…

The majority of security organizations received more alerts than they can handle and don’t have a way to spot stolen credentials, according to a survey released today.According to the report, 62 percent of organizations get too many alerts, and that…

Last week’s distributed denial of service attack against the BBC website may have been the largest in history.A group calling itself New World Hacking said that the attack reached 602Gbps. If accurate, that would put it at almost twice the size of t…

A report released this morning shows that no phone is 100 percent secure — but that one company, at least, is able to respond quickly and issue patches immediately.An open socket on the Blackphone made its nVidia modem accessible to apps without th…

A report released today by PhishMe based on the results of 8 million phishing simulations shows that employees can dramatically improve their ability to detect phishing emails with practice, and can be trained to forward them to security staff.
Whi…

A report released today by PhishMe based on the results of 8 million phishing simulations shows that employees can dramatically improve their ability to detect phishing emails with practice, and can be trained to forward them to security staff.
Whi…

Due to reporting guidelines, lost and stolen devices account for 45 percent of all breaches in Verizon’s new health care data breach report, accounting for 45 percent of around 2,000 incidents with total losses of more than 392 million records.Misce…

IT budgets are expected to see a rumble of activity in the wake of the Safe Harbor earthquake.In a new Ovum survey of IT decision makers at international companies, 70 percent said they expect to increase spending next year, 66 percent expect to hav…

Last summer, law enforcement agencies from 20 countries joined forces to shut down the notorious Darkode hacking forum. Organizers said they would be back, stronger than ever.Security researchers have been keeping an eye out for its resurgence ever …

Last summer, law enforcement agencies from 20 countries joined forces to shut down the notorious Darkode hacking forum. Organizers said they would be back, stronger than ever.Security researchers have been keeping an eye out for its resurgence ever …

According to a new report by Trend Micro, the North American cyber criminal underground isn’t buried as deep as in other geographies.
“It doesn’t exist in the dark web as much as other undergrounds do, or practice as much security,” said Tom Keller…

According to a new report by Trend Micro, the North American cyber criminal underground isn’t buried as deep as in other geographies.
“It doesn’t exist in the dark web as much as other undergrounds do, or practice as much security,” said Tom Keller…

According to an analysis of over 200,000 applications, PHP is the programming language with the most vulnerabilities, mobile apps suffer from cryptography problems, and developers are more likely to fix errors found with static instead of dynamic an…