A widespread adware infection hides the ability to inflict far worse than spammy browser tweaks.

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Equifax Chief Executive Richard Smith is leaving the credit-reporting company after a massive data breach under his watch exposed the information of about 143 million Americans.

Authored by: Alexander Sevtsov Phishing emails with suspicious attachments are one of the most popular malware delivery vectors today. These attachments usually consist of noscript-based downloaders (WSF, JS, HTA), or, more commonly, Microsoft Office files…

  Choosing an effective password that’s easy to remember and type, as well as hard to guess for would-be fraudsters, is a perennial problem. But it’s one that the folks at Microsoft Research are trying to tackle with an experimental tool called Telepathwords.…

The information collection process is very important as this is the first step of penetration testing. This information is usually used by hackers to have an intricate idea of their target. It also he

In a move that's bound to rock the DDoS mitigation industry, Cloudflare announced yesterday its intention to offer DDoS protection at no extra costs during a DDoS attack's peak.

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Trend Micro and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) today released a publicly available report on the ATM malware landscape. This builds on the 2016 report that was privately released to financial institutions and law enforcement agencies globally.…

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Hello fellow bug hunter! Today we are going back to Internet Explorer which despite getting old, ton

This paper explains the intrusion detection and Intrusion prevention systems (IDS/IPS), one of the most essential mechanisms implemented to secure our networks.
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A demonstration of an exploit chain submitted to the ZDI program. ZDI researcher Vincent Lee demonstrates a blind SQLi attack on EMC Data Protection Advisor.

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IOActive's review of 21 of the most used mobile apps for investment trading shows a majority of them exposing users to various security risks.

Government cybersecurity officials have not seen any evidence to suggest that British businesses have been significantly affected by the Deloitte cyber attack, NS Tech can disclose. The professional services firm, which provides cyber security consultancy…

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This week, Father Robert and Steve follow more Equifax breach fallout, look at encryption standards blowback from the Edward Snowden revelations, examine more worrisome news of the…