Dominated by an overall increase in the number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the first quarter of the year also saw a record number of attacks (19) larger than 100 Gbps, a recent report from Akamai reveals.
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Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in Android Mediaserver, Qualcomm Drivers
Google on Monday released the June 2016 set of security updates for the Android operating system, meant to patch a total of 40 vulnerabilities in the platform: 8 Critical, 28 High, and 4 Medium severity.
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Attacks Use Windows BITS Notifications to Download Malware
One of the Windows features that has been long abused by cybercriminals is the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), and researchers at SecureWorks warn that a lesser-known capability in BITS is now leveraged to download malware.
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Egnyte Tackles Data Loss With New Data Governance Solution
Cloud computing remains a problem for many businesses. While the move to IaaS is gathering pace, it is still true that most organizations operate a hybrid approach, combining cloud apps and on-premise data. According to Egnyte, 85% of apps are now in the cloud, while 85% of data is still on premises. This creates a huge governance issue as corporate data moves into and out of cloud applications.
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Port Scanning Project Infers Security Posture by Country
Rapid7 has turned the power of its Project Sonar infrastructure to examine a fundamental question: just what is the exposure of the Internet in different national regions? While anyone will tell you that the Internet is not secure, few are able to quantify how, what or where.
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Port Scanning Project Shows Scale of Exposed Systems
Port Scanning Project Infers Security Posture by Country
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Fortinet Acquires Security Monitoring Firm AccelOps
Network security company Fortinet (FTNT) announced on Tuesday the acquisition of AccelOps, a Santa Clara, CA-based firm that specializes in network security monitoring and performance analytics solutions.
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The Most Important Security Question No One Seems to be Able to Answer
Let me ask you a very simple question.
“What is your organization’s sensitive data, and where is it?”
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Silk Road 2.0 Admin Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison
Brian Richard Farrell, a 27-year-old accused of being a key administrator of the dark web criminal marketplace Silk Road 2.0, has been sentenced to eight years in prison and four years of supervised release.
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Facebook Patches Vulnerability in Messenger App
Researchers discovered that Facebook Messenger is plagued by a vulnerability that allows hackers to replace the content of the messages they send through the application. The social media giant addressed the issue, but rated it “low risk.”
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