Symantec has identified a group of cybercriminals, whom they’ve named “Butterfly,” as targeting corporate intellectual property for financial gains, with Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft among those hit.”Attackers going after intellectual prop…
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Malvertising campaigns have reached more users than ever before, reported security firm Invincea yesterday, with many brand-name websites affected — including CBS Sports, Yahoo and eBay in the UK, Livestrong, Perez Hilton, Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.com…
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As government officials continue to plea the case against strong encryption, a group of high-profile international security experts have published a paper arguing that allowing government agents special access to communications would have detriment…
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Enterprises are still heavily dependent on Windows Server 2003 even though there were plenty of warnings that support is coming to an end on July 14 — and this opens them up to security, compliance and operational risks.According to a June report c…
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According to new recommendations by an IEEE study group, the Wi-Fi protocol needs to be updated to use randomly generated addresses for better security and privacy.
Today, the 802.11 Wi-Fi standards are designed so that each mobile device gets its …
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Scammers have long used cloaking as a technique to drive up search engine rankings, stuffing webpages full of keywords and links that make them attractive to Google, but not to actual readers.Google wised up and those tactics became ineffective. But…
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In a recent analysis of a quarter million endpoint devices in 40 enterprises, every single corporate network showed evidence of a targeted intrusion but most of the activity was not yet at the most-dangerous data exfiltration stage.”No matter how sm…
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Government agencies seeking the lowest bidders typically overlook cybersecurity when awarding contracts, and data breaches are the result, says a security rating expert.According to a review of 25 defense contractors by BitSight Technologies, the me…
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Mobile payments – using your phone instead of a credit card to make purchases at retail locations – has not taken off. Yet.
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New Jersey’s Provident Bank expands staff training and email encryption to enhance information security After the epidemic of high-profile nonbank data breaches last year, New Jersey’s Provident Bank took another look at its own security measures and considered ways to beef them up. “Data protection has always been a major tenet for the bank,” says
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Apple Inc.’s rollout of its Apple Pay mobile payments app has been fraught with expensive card payment fraud, according to news reports. The much-vaunted iPhone tap-and-pay system’s state-of-the-art tokenization payment security is working fine. But a spike in mobile payment fraud with stolen credit card numbers has reportedly occurred when a few large credit card
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A new botnet is helping cybercriminals phish for community bank customers Computer hackers typically cast their phishing nets expecting to hook megabank customers. After all, the overwhelming odds are that the most computers infected by random phishing emails or drive-by malware infections from nefarious websites will be owned customers of the largest chain banks. But
By now you know that hackers calling themselves “Guardians of Peace” went through Sony Pictures Entertainment like a hot knife through butter. They collected everything–high-quality copies of unreleased films, employee passwords, emails, salary numbers, movie scripts, contracts, medical records, celebrity aliases, and Brad Pitt’s phone number–and released it all to the public. There were more
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Five steps for sustaining rigorous network security against constant cyberattacks Hackers are using sophisticated, automated tools to cast a wider net than ever before. Even small and medium-size community banks need to continually review their security procedures. This is especially true this year, with major breaches showing that nobody is safe. Here are five best
It’s called ATM cash-out fraud, and it’s a new data security threat where physical attacks and cyberattacks converge. Earlier this year, federal regulators warned financial institutions against criminal attacks on their ATM systems. But instead of breaking into the physical machines directly, some criminals are now aiming at the bank systems that control the machines.
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