Category: News

Google Tracks Use of HTTPS on Top 100 Websites

Google announced on Tuesday that its transparency report now includes a section dedicated to monitoring the use of HTTPS on the world’s top 100 websites.
Data protection and privacy have become increasingly important, and many organizations have started moving their websites and services to HTTPS. However, the migration process can prove challenging for large services.
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Suffocating Volume of Security Alerts Challenge Incident Response

Study Shows Many Companies Ignore Majority of Security Alerts
A new study shows that incident response (IR) has become more difficult over the past two years due to an increasing number of IT activities and security alerts, and the difficulty of extending existing IR processes to new technologies.
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PowerSniff Malware Attacks Abuse Macros, PowerShell

A new piece of malware dubbed “PowerSniff” has been spotted by researchers in semi-targeted attacks aimed at users in the United States and some European countries.
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2016 CISO Forum at Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay: Request Your Invite

The 2016 SecurityWeek CISO Forum will take place June 1-2 at the beautiful Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, just south of San Francisco.
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SSL Encryption: Keep Your Head in the Game

Cryptography isn’t new. Humans have always liked to keep secrets. Or at least try.
More than 400 years ago, Mary, Queen of Scots, tried. Unfortunately, in the encryption-gone-wrong Babington plot, she didn’t fair so well. When one of Queen Elizabeth’s cunning advisors decrypted a coded correspondence about an assassination conspiracy, it was off with poor Mary’s head.
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Bangladesh Central Bank Governor Quits Over $81 Million Heist

Bangladesh's central bank chief resigned on Tuesday, after hackers stole $81 million from the nation's foreign reserves in one of the biggest bank heists in history, the finance minister said.
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Google Offers $100,000 for Chromebook Hack

Google announced on Monday two important changes to its Chrome Reward Program, namely an increased reward for hacking Chromebooks and the addition of a new class of vulnerabilities.
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New EDA2-Based Ransomware Easily Neutralized

A new variant of the EDA2 educational ransomware has emerged, only to be quickly neutralized, despite its creator’s confidence that he would never get caught.
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New GM Bot Version Released After Source Leak

After the source code of the Android banking Trojan GM Bot was leaked online, the malware’s developer announced the release of a new version that has a much higher price tag.
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