‘Rocket Kitten’ pro-Iranian regime hackers focusing more on targeting individuals for geopolitical espionage. Kelly Jackson Higgins A cyber espionage group likely out of Iran turned the tables on a security…
Day: September 6, 2015
Wi-Fi routers and unpatched security flaws
Attackers could exploit the flaws to hijack DNS requests or completely take over the devices By Lucian Constantin If your Wi-Fi network is using the popular Belkin N600 DB router,…
Ransomware Jumped 58 Percent in Q2
McAfee Threat Labs Report also zooms in on GPU malware and looks back on the first five years of the Intel-McAfee marriage. By Sara Peters The number of ransomware samples…
Hybrid malware threatens Japanese consumers
John Leyden Customers of Japanese banks are on the front line of attacks based on a new and sophisticated banking trojan, mashed together from leaked bits of malware code. Shifu…
Hacking number one consumer fear
Doug Olenick A Kaspersky Lab study found some consumers are tremendously worried about hacking and malware, while almost half are not concerned at all and others simply believe they are…
WHSmith data breach leads to hundreds of emails
Misconfigured contact-us form on retailers website sends data to companys entire mailing list Alex Hern Newsagent WHSmith has compromised users private data sending it in hundreds of emails to customers…