Security News > 2017 > March

Victims of Filecoder ransomware for macOS can now decrypt their files (Help Net Security)
2017-03-01 13:30

Last week, researchers discovered and analyzed a new piece of ransomware targeting a specific subset of Mac users: those who are looking for ways to crack legal copies of some very pricy software....

Operatively-sourced threat intelligence: Using human awareness (Help Net Security)
2017-03-01 13:15

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Mike Kirschner, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Advanced Threat Intelligence at InfoArmor, talks about the platforms that they’ve...

With 1.2 million phishing attacks, 2016 was a success for cybercriminals (Help Net Security)
2017-03-01 13:00

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed that 2016 ended as the worst year for phishing in history. The total number of phishing attacks in 2016 was 1,220,523. This number represents the...

Botnets (Schneier on Security)
2017-03-01 12:53

Botnets have existed for at least a decade. As early as 2000, hackers were breaking into computers over the Internet and controlling them en masse from centralized systems. Among other things, the...

Global cloud security market to reach $13.93 billion by 2024 (Help Net Security)
2017-03-01 12:45

The cloud infrastructure has witnessed a significant growth in recent years and its popularity can be attributed to the on-demand services, scalability and flexibility, and the cost effective...