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Event:  Seventh Annual Information Security Summit (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 13:01

Information Security has become top of mind for companies and this conference is a must for IT staff, CISOs, Board members and CEOs. The Seventh Annual Information Security Summit offers comprehens...

New AlphaCrypt ransomware delivered via Angler EK (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 12:14

Yet another type of ransomware has been detected by malware researchers. Dubbed AlphaCrypt, it appropriates the look of TeslaCrypt, but operates similarly to Cryptowall 3.0. "While this may look ...

Angler Exploit Kit, Bedep Malware Inflating Video Views (Threatpost)
2015-05-05 12:00

Cybercriminals are using the Angler exploit kit to infect users with the Bedep Trojan, which then uses their computer resources to perform click-fraud and artificially inflate video views.

Netflix Releases FIDO Incident Response Tool (Threatpost)
2015-05-05 11:11

Engineers at Netflix have released another one of the company’s bespoke security tools as an open-source application, this time an incident-response system known as FIDO. The tool is designed to...

USBKill turns thumb drives into computer kill switches (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 11:10

A coder that goes by the online handle "Hephaestos" has shared with the world a Python script that, when put on an USB thumb drive, turns the device in an effective kill switch for the computer in whi...

New infostealer tries to foil analysis attempts by wiping hard drive (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 09:50

Cisco researchers have discovered a new information-stealing Trojan that reads and records any plain-text data the victim types into their browser. But this discovery would be nothing to write home ab...

The risks of moving data into cloud and mobile environments (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 08:36

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2015, Rich Campagna, VP, Products & Marketing at Bitglass, talks about how cloud and mobile and the the largest trends happening in enterprise IT today. T...

Crimeware infects one-third of computers worldwide (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 08:25

The APWG reports that during the 4th quarter of 2014, a record number of crimeware variants were detected, a strategy of overwhelming proliferation of variations designed to defeat antivirus software.

The enduring chasm between security teams and developers (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 08:24

The gap between application builders (developers and development organizations) and defenders (security and operations teams responsible for securing apps) is closing slightly, according to SANS. "...

Data security in the payments ecosystem (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 08:19

Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute asked professionals to weigh in on several topics including who should be responsible for securing payment systems and how effective their org...