The lack of any further information from the team behind TrueCrypt and the abruptness with which the service appears to have been end-of-lifed led some to suspect hackers may have hijacked the page in a bid to get users to download malware....
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An estimated 80% of US businesses expect to be hit by a critical security breach at some point in the coming year, according to new research from Trend Micro. The security giant polled over 1000 IT security professionals to compile a new Cyber Risk Index (CRI), designed to help CISOs better identify and prioritize threats. The CRI measures business risk based on the difference between organizations’ current security posture and their likelihood of attack. Sensitive R&D data, trade secr...
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More than 3,000 mobile iOS and Android apps have presumably been affected by a new HospitalGown threat variant recently discovered by Appthority. The threat occurs when app developers fail to require authentication to Google Firebase databases, potentially leaving private data exposed. Researchers first discovered what they call the HospitalGown vulnerability in 2017 after broadening their understanding of enterprise mobile threats by looking at the data leakage through back-end data stores that...
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A recently observed Zeus Panda banking Trojan attack used poisoned Google search results for specific banking related keywords to infect users, Cisco Talos researchers warn. As part of this attack, the actor behind Zeus Panda used Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to make their malicious links more prevalent in the search results....
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This week I was at the Interop conference being held at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. I was amazed at the spectacle that was surrounding the Mayweather vs Paquiao fight this coming weekend....
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to take effect on May 25, and research suggests that while businesses are busy scrambling to fill data protection officer (DPO) vacancies, other areas of the organization, especially the legal department, could be taken by surprise. According to accounting and advisory firm BDO, about half (48%) of legal team respondents in a recent survey claim GDPR is not applicable to their organization. Given that any US or foreign company that deals with ...
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