Security News > 2017 > February

Friction matters: Data security lessons from Snapchat and Google (Help Net Security)
2017-02-28 13:20

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Grant Shirk and Veliz Perez, Head of Product Marketing and Product Marketing Manager at Vera respectively, talk about how the need to protect...

Germans, Czechs served with banking malware through SMS (Help Net Security)
2017-02-28 13:15

German and Czech Android users are getting served with a banking Trojan directly through text messages, warns malware researcher Bart Blaze. The message claims that the user has missed the...

Millions of smart devices in Spain are vulnerable to attack (Help Net Security)
2017-02-28 13:00

Avast revealed the findings of its research experiment into smart devices, including public and private webcam vulnerabilities in Spain, and, specifically, in Barcelona. Avast identified more than...

Rewriting the rules on how to protect against evolving adversaries (Help Net Security)
2017-02-28 12:45

Hackers are getting better at exploiting your organization’s increasingly complex IT environment. Adversaries are using highly customized attack campaigns to infiltrate their targets and evade...

500,000+ devices have dangerous apps installed (Help Net Security)
2017-02-28 12:30

At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017, connected cars, the future of smart homes and, of course, the newest handsets are top of the agenda. Intel Security’s latest findings show consumers are being...

EU Still Concerned about Windows 10 Privacy Settings (Schneier on Security)
2017-02-28 12:25

We all should be concerned about the privacy settings in Windows 10. And we should be glad that the EU has the regulatory authority to do something about it....