Via Graham Cluley | @gcluley
Don’t give disgruntled workers and former staff a window of opportunity to cause damage or steal company confidential information.
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Via Matt Elliott | @themattelliott
The Gooligan malware attack targeting Android devices has infected more than a million Google accounts. Has your account been compromised? It's easy to check to find out.
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Via Michael Mimoso | @Mike_Mimoso
Multitasking while on a work-related Skype call may be good for productivity, but perhaps not so much for privacy.
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Been having trouble getting around the Net today? You're not alone.
The eastern part of the United States is being affected by today's second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
William Turton from Gizmodo provides more details.
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Via Graham Cluley | @gcluley
As we should all know by now, Yahoo announced recently it had been massively hacked. Think you're safe because you don't have a Yahoo! account? Think again.
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Via Jon Hendren | @fart
Something often overlooked in cybersecurity reporting is that criminals don’t just target banks, governments and huge businesses — that’s Hollywood.
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With security breaches becoming a common occurrence, how can we feel safe that our digital lives won't fall victim to the next breach to hit the news?
The Sad Truth About Security
In today's highly connected world, there is almost no way to guarantee security. Security is a moving target. It's a race between those with sensitive data and those...
Via Cliff Saran | @cliffsaran
Researchers have published a paper outlining how an attacker could crack the TLS security protocol to gain access to millions of secure websites. The cross-protocol attack, known as DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption), performs live attacks on TLS, one of the main protocols used for security on the...
Adobe Flash has been an endagered technology for a number of years, but now the call for its elimination are growing very loud. Last week Mozilla blocked the plug-in in the Firefox browser.
"Adobe has tried hard over the years to improve Flash, and it has become much more responsive at dealing with security issues," says security blogger Graham...
A new web server vulnerability called VENOM was announced yesterday, but customers of Signal's web hosting are safe.
Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation (VENOM) can affect so-called "virtual" machines, many of which may operate on a single physical server. The bug can allow a ne'er-do-well to potentially escape the confirms of a...