The hacking group APT10 has been blamed for the global cyberespionage campaign. By Michael Kan Companies that choose to outsource their IT operations should be careful. Suspected Chinese hackers have…
Month: April 2017
2016 Year of the Mega-Breach, More to Come?
By Ken Mafli With over four billion records leaked last year, “2016 was a defining year for security” reported IBM X-Force in its recent report. For me there were three…
One New Cyber-threat Discovered Every Three Seconds in Q4
By Phil Muncaster McAfee Labs discovered one new cyber-threat every three seconds in the fourth quarter of 2016, although the number of new malware samples including ransomware slowed during the…
Scottrade Bank data breach exposes 20,000 customer records
60GB MSSQL database contained customer records and other sensitive data. By Steve Ragan Scottrade Bank, a subsidiary of Scottrade Financial Services, Inc., recently secured a MSSQL database containing sensitive information…
CIA operations may be disrupted by new Wikileaks' data release
Current spying campaigns run by the CIA could be disrupted, say experts, after more data on the agency’s hacking techniques was released by Wikileaks. CIA code that obscures malware’s origins…
A free decryption tool is now available for all Bart ransomware versions
Antivirus vendor Bitdefender obtained the Bart decryption keys from the Romanian police. By Lucian Constantin Users who have had their files encrypted by any version of the Bart ransomware program…