Security News

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...

ESET software allows Mac remote code execution attacks (ZDNet)
2017-03-01 12:09

Report: 2016 saw 8.5 million mobile malware attacks, ransomware and IoT threats on the rise (TechRepublic)
2017-02-28 18:24

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...

quot;Gamaredonquot; Group Uses Custom Malware in Ukraine Attacks (SecurityWeek)
2017-02-28 12:09

Fast-growing Digerati attacks rich SMB VoIP market (IT Toolbox Blogs)
2017-02-28 00:25

Multiple Groups Cooperated in Shamoon Attacks: Symantec (SecurityWeek)
2017-02-27 18:24

The real cost of ransomware: Attacks take most victims offline for at least a week (ZDNet)
2017-02-27 14:39

MySQL Databases Targeted in New Ransom Attacks (SecurityWeek)
2017-02-24 19:54

New attack sounds death knell for widely used SHA-1 crypto hash function (Help Net Security)
2017-02-24 13:07

SHA-1 is definitely, provenly dead, as a group of researchers from CWI Institute in Amsterdam and Google have demonstrated the first practical technique for generating a collision. What is SHA-1?...