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Easily exploited flaw in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine allows total system compromise
2018-04-05 18:15

A critical and extremely easily exploitable vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (MMPE) has been patched through an out-of-band security update pushed out by Microsoft on...

Facebook admits public data of its 2.2 billion users has been compromised
2018-04-05 17:49

Facebook dropped another bombshell on its users by admitting that all of its 2.2 billion users should assume malicious third-party scrapers have compromised their public profile information. On...

VirusTotal launches 'Droidy' sandbox to detect malicious Android apps
2018-04-05 17:49

One of the biggest and most popular multi-antivirus scanning engine service has today launched a new Android sandbox service, dubbed VirusTotal Droidy, to help security researchers detect...

Facebook: 87M Accounts May Have Been Sent To Cambridge Analytica
2018-04-05 17:49

Social Networking Giant Also Says Malicious Actors Scraped Public ProfilesFacebook says up to 87 million people may have had their personal details transferred to voter-profiling firm Cambridge...

Taking Friction out of Authentication
2018-04-05 17:49

Evan O'Regan of Entrust Datacard on Orchestrating a Frictionless ExperienceTraditional approaches to authentication can't work effectively in a digital environment where customers and partners are...

Financial Services DDoS Attacks Tied to Reaper Botnet
2018-04-05 16:59

Recorded Future's "Insikt" threat intelligence research group has linked the Mirai variant IoTroop (aka Reaper) botnet with attacks on the Netherlands financial sector in January 2018. The...

Unprotected Switches Expose Critical Infrastructure to Attacks: Cisco
2018-04-05 16:37

Cisco has advised organizations to ensure that their switches cannot be hacked via the Smart Install protocol. The networking giant has identified hundreds of thousands of exposed devices and...

Secret Service Warns of Chip Card Scheme
2018-04-05 15:50

The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions about a new scam involving the temporary theft of chip-based debit cards issued to large corporations. In this scheme, the fraudsters...

New macOS Backdoor Linked to Cyber-espionage Group
2018-04-05 15:23

A recently discovered macOS backdoor is believed to be a new version of malware previously associated with the OceanLotus cyber-espionage group, Trend Micro says. Also known as APT 32, APT-C-00,...

Rarog Trojan ‘Easy Entry’ For New Cryptomining Crooks, Report Warns
2018-04-05 15:12

A malware family called Rarog is becoming an appealing and affordable entry point for hackers to run cryptocurrency mining campaigns, researchers say.