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Drupal Issues Highly Critical Patch: Over 1M Sites Vulnerable
2018-03-29 19:58

Drupal developers are urged to patch a bug that allows attackers to take over a site simply by visiting it.

Why Is Shadow IT So Common in Healthcare?
2018-03-29 19:48

VA Watchdog Agency Report Cites Unauthorized Patient DatabaseThe unauthorized deployment of an unsecured patient database is the latest instance of "shadow IT" spotlighted by a Department of...

20 hackers arrested in EUR 1 million banking phishing scam
2018-03-29 19:37

A two-year long cybercrime investigation between the Romanian National Police and the Italian National Police, with the support of Europol, its Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and...

"Fauxpersky" Credential Stealer Spreads via USB Drives
2018-03-29 17:45

A recently discovered credential stealing malware is masquerading as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreading via infected USB drives, according to threat detection firm Cybereason. Dubbed Fauxpersky,...

Panda Banker Trojan Goes to Japan
2018-03-29 16:04

The banking Trojan known as Panda Banker is now targeting financial institutions in Japan for what appears to be first time. Also known as Panda Zeus, the malware was first observed in 2016, based...

Microsoft's Meltdown Patch Made Windows 7 PCs More Insecure
2018-03-29 15:03

Meltdown CPU vulnerability was bad, and Microsoft somehow made the flaw even worse on its Windows 7, allowing any unprivileged, user-level application to read content from and even write data to...

Julian Assange Gets Another Internet Timeout
2018-03-29 13:48

WikiLeaks Founder Gets Internet Access Revoked For Meddling in Foreign AffairsEcuador's embassy in London has again revoked internet access for seven-year houseguest Julian Assange, saying the...

Crypto Mining Rampant in Higher Education
2018-03-29 13:27

Figures from an analysis of 4.5 million monitored devices across 246 companies show that for every 10,000 devices and workloads, 165 contain active threats. The majority are given a low (113) or...

Omitting the “o” in .com Could Be Costly
2018-03-29 13:08

Take care when typing a domain name into a browser address bar, because it's far too easy to fat-finger a key and wind up somewhere you don't want to go. For example, if you try to visit some of...

Businesses suspect their mobile workers are being hacked
2018-03-29 12:15

More than half (57%) of organisations suspect their mobile workers have been hacked or caused a mobile security issue in the last 12 months, according to the iPass Mobile Security Report 2018....