Smartphone infection rates nearly doubled during the first half of this year, from 0.25 percent to 0.49 percent compared to the second half of 2015, according to a report released today by Nokia.Nokia provides endpoint malware detection services to …
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Think that your new EMV-compliant chip-reading point of sale terminal will keep crooks from stealing your customer credit card info?Think again.Researchers have spotted a website setting EMV skimmers — at www.emvskimmer.com, if it hasn’t already be…
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Deception technologies such as honeypots are becoming increasingly popular with enterprises as the products get more flexible and the tools allow security analysts swamped with incident reports to zero in on cases of actual ongoing infiltration.
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In the wake of continued security problems, NASA’s CIO is sending a no-confidence signal to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which received a $2.5 billion contract in 2011 to address problems with the agency’s outdated and insecure information technology…
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In the wake of continued security problems, NASA’s CIO is sending a no-confidence signal to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which received a $2.5 billion contract in 2011 to address problems with the agency’s outdated and insecure information technolog…
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Skyhigh announced today that it has received a patent for its technology, which moves that encryption gateway into a hosted environment.
Enterprises looking to protect sensitive data stored in cloud services can funnel user traffic through on-premises encryption gateways that allow them to keep control of their encryption keys.
Moving the encryption process to Skyhigh’s servers allows for easier access by remote employees, mobile users, business partners, or customers, said Rajiv Gupta, Skyhigh’s CEO. He says the company offers these encryption gateways in various locations, allowing customers to comply with data residency and privacy laws.
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Brazil just can’t catch a break. We’ve already seen flesh-eating bacteria in the water, athletes getting robbed on the streets, and police officers holding up a “welcome to hell” sign at the airport. Plus a wide variety of cybercrime, including phi…
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The fast-growing Cerber ransomware earned nearly $200,000 in July despite a payment rate of just 0.3 percent as a result of its affiliate distribution model, according to a new report by Check Point and IntSights Cyber Intelligence.That puts it on t…
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The major mobile networks account for 90 percent of all legitimate text message traffic — but only 38 percent of blocked spam messages. The rest of the spam messages is dominated by network unaffiliated virtual operators, according to a new report …
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Security researcher Salvador Mendoza demonstrated a flaw in Samsung Pay at Black Hat last week, in which the tokens used to secure transactions could be predicted, and used to authorize fraudulent payments.Samsung responded with a statement calling …
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Almost half of all companies have been the victims of a ransomware attack during the past 12 months, according to a new report. And while globally, 40 percent of them have paid the ransom, 97 percent of U.S. companies did not.
Specifically, 75 perc…
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Insurance companies typically have decades of data, if not more, on which to base their risk estimates.
That’s not the case with cyber risk, however. There’s very little historical data available, the data is not complete, and the threat landscape …
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Earlier this week, SentinelOne announced that it will reimburse customers for up to $1 million if they are hit by a ransomware attack, but some experts say that this is a marketing gimmick and no replacement for a solid cyberinsurance policy.
“It’s good that they are standing behind the capability of their product with this guarantee,” said Mike Buratowski, vice president of cybersecurity services at Fidelis Cybersecurity. “The guarantee program is a novel idea with some credibility to it, however there is also a bit of marketing gimmickry in it as well.”
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The shift from magnetic stripe to chip-based payment cards was first announced in 2011, with a deadline of October 2015, but most merchants still have not upgraded, and are paying the price in that they are now having to cover the costs of fraudulen…
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Earlier this year, security researchers went to their local OfficeMax, Staples and other office supply stores and bought a bunch of wireless keyboards.
“We’re in the business of scanning the enterprise airspace to look for vulnerabilities in IoT, mobile, and other wireless devices,” said Ivan O’Sullivan, CRO at Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Bastille Networks Inc. “We look at all the wireless devices that we see broadcasting on many different protocols and look for data security vulnerabilities for our enterprise customers. So we buy all the toys and devices and hack them to find out if they’re secure.”
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