The Terracotta commercial VPN, marketed in China under a number of different brand names, uses hacked servers to power its network and the network has become popular with advanced persistent threat groups, according to research released today by RSA Security.
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UPDATE: Flash Networks comments have been added to the original story.
LAS VEGAS – An ongoing conflict between website owners and ad injectors who place unwanted ads on those websites has just flared up into full-blown war, with advertisers and carriers caught in the crossfire.
Take, for example, T-Mobile, which is proudly named as a customer by Flash Networks, a company that brags about creating “new monetization opportunities” for mobile operators when it “inserts the most relevant engagement display into the selected webpages.”
This seems to have been a surprise to T-Mobile. Cynthia Lee, the company’s senior digital media manager, adamantly denied that T-Mobile was using Flash Networks to inject ads into webpages it was serving up to mobile customers.
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LAS VEGAS – An ongoing conflict between website owners and ad injectors who place unwanted ads on those websites has just flared up into full-blown war, with advertisers and carriers caught in the crossfire.
Take, for example, T-Mobile, which is proudly named as a customer by Flash Networks, a company that brags about creating “new monetization opportunities” for mobile operators when it “inserts the most relevant engagement display into the selected webpages.”
This seems to have been a surprise to T-Mobile. Cynthia Lee, the company’s senior digital media manager, adamantly denied that T-Mobile was using Flash Networks to inject ads into webpages it was serving up to mobile customers.
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In a decision that should send major corporations to double-check their cyberinsurance, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that retail customers could go ahead and file a class-action lawsuit against Neiman Marcus in the wake of last year’s data breach.
Previously, such cases were dismissed because the customers hadn’t suffered any actual damages.
In the decision, the judges ruled that breach posed a substantial risk of harm to the customers.
“Why else would hackers break into a store’s database and steal consumers’ private information?” they said.
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When financial institutions store data in the cloud, they use different kinds of encryption depending on security and workflow requirements, according to a new report from CipherCloud.Of 50 major global financial institutions studied, 40 percent use…
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Security researchers have long known about the vulnerabilities of the RFID readers that many buildings use instead of door locks, but facilities managers have been slow to upgrade to more secure systems.To draw attention to the problem, at next week…
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If you have a Google account and a stranger sends you a link to a document on Google Drive, think twice before clicking — it could be a phishing scam designed to harvest your Google credentials.According to Aditya Sood, architect at Elastica Cloud …
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Vulnerabilities in Android’s “Stagefright” code allows criminals to send malware to any user via text message — and the user gets infected without even having to open it, according to a new report from Zimperium zLabs.This is the most serious Andro…
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In a recent security assessment of ten smartwatches and their iOS and Android companion applications, every single watch had at least one significant security flaw, according to a new report from HP Fortify.One common problem was that the data that …
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According to a new survey of Black Hat attendees released last week, InfoSec professionals are spending the biggest amount of their time and budgets on security problems created within the organization itself.Security vulnerabilities introduced by t…
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Life is tough if you’re a criminal.Sure, one big score can set you up for life. If you’re smart and disciplined, you can retire early. But the flip side of that is that the smart and disciplined cybercriminals cash out and retire early, leaving you …
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230 million patients. 3,300 hospitals. 900,000 healthcare professionals. 98 percent of U.S. pharmacies. More than 700 different electronic health record platforms. 764 million medication histories. 6.5 billion transactions processed last year alone….
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The comment period on a proposed set of software export restrictions ends next Monday, and the rules, as written, would severely restrict international sales, deployment, research and even discussion of cybersecurity tools and exploits, experts say….
Regulators seek to limit security software exports Read More »
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the digital world’s top watchdog when it comes to privacy and free expression.
But while cops and firefighters are often ready to retire after 25 years on the job, protecting citizens, the EFF has a full agenda…
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Advertising networks have gotten better at spotting malicious downloads embedded into advertisements, so criminals began using redirects, even chains of a dozen redirects or more, to keep their malicious ads from being detected.Advertising networks …
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