A computer hacker who helped the Islamic State group by providing stolen personal data on more than 1,000 US government and military workers was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.
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Locky Ransomware Fuels Surge in .RAR, JavaScript Attachments
Locky malware, currently one of the most active ransomware threats, has influenced a transition to new types of attachments used in malicious emails, Trend Micro researchers warn.
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Cybercriminals Developing Biometric Skimmers for ATM Attacks
Banks are improving ATM authentication mechanisms in an effort to prevent fraud, but cybercriminals have already started developing the tools and techniques they need to bypass these modern security systems.
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DDoS Attacks Are Primary Purpose of IoT Malware
As the Internet of Things (IoT) market expands, the number of malware threats targeting the segment is rising as well. The ultimate goal for many of these IoT threats is to build strong botnets in order to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Symantec researchers say.
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Xiny Android Trojans Can Infect System Processes
Mobile malware from the Xiny family of Android Trojans are capable of infecting the processes of system applications and of downloading malicious plug-ins into the infected programs, Doctor Web researchers warn.
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Disaster Recovery: Confidence High, Experience Low
With everything moving to the cloud, it is little surprise that Disaster Recovery (DR) is now also offered as cloud-based DRaaS. The majority of organizations still employ on-premise DR, but cloud usage is growing. A new survey investigates how and why UK businesses are employing DR; how they rate their existing DR readiness, and whether they are considering a move to cloud.
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Yahoo! Pressed to Explain Massive ‘State Sponsored’ Hack
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Yahoo! Pressed to Explain Massive 'State Sponsored' Hack
Yahoo! Pressed to Explain Massive 'State Sponsored' Hack
Continue readingYahoo Pressed to Explain Huge ‘State Sponsored’ Hack
Yahoo faced pressure Friday to explain how it sustained a massive cyber-attack — one of the biggest ever, and allegedly state-sponsored — allowing hackers to steal data from half a billion users two years ago.
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EFF Warns Police, Courts About Unreliability of IP Addresses
A report published this week by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns about the misuse of IP addresses by police and courts, and makes recommendations on how such information can be used efficiently.
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Hosting Provider OVH Hit by 1 Tbps DDoS Attack
OVH, one of the world’s largest hosting companies, reported on Thursday that its systems were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that reached nearly one terabit per second (Tbps).
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