Privacy, security concerns grow for wearables
While Google Glass was not the success Google wanted it to be, there is no doubt that the wearable camera market is growing. People may have not been comfortable with the fact that random persons can record their action without them being aware of it, but most have no trouble with law enforcement agents, first…
Google’s whack-a-mole with Android adware continues
Why can’t Google put a stop to adware on their official Android app marketplace? The analysis by Trend Micro researchers of a Trojan Android ad library dubbed Xavier tells the story. The Xavier ad library is third stage of evolution of the AdDown family, which was initially able to install apps behind the user’s back,…
A Brief History of Computing: As Technology Evolves, Cybersecurity Lags Behind
Security isn’t what it used to be, especially in the area of computing. It has become far more ephemeral, less obvious and much more important. To keep pace with the evolving threat landscape, we all need to reset our expectations about what cybersecurity actually is in today’s world and look carefully at what it might…
Cyber Solstice: IT Security Tasks to Tackle on the Longest Day of the Year
This week, we will experience the longest day of the year: June 21. For IT professionals, more daylight means more time to handle tasks on the back burner, start new projects or even — gasp — take a step back from the cybersecurity front lines. Here’s a look at some top contenders for security tasks…
Trump’s Executive Order: What It Means for US Cybersecurity
The provisions are all well and good, but it’s hardly the first time they’ve been ordered by the White House. The WannaCry ransomware attack has dominated headlines recently, and with good reason – it has infected hundreds of thousands of computers in close to 100 countries, shutting down hospitals in the UK, causing problems for…
CIA Router Hacking Tool Exposed by WikiLeaks
Documents published by WikiLeaks on Thursday provide details on a tool allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hack routers and access points. Dubbed CherryBlossom, the tool is described by its developers as a system designed for monitoring a target’s Internet activity and delivering software exploits via wireless networking devices. WikiLeaks said…
U.K. Center of Security Excellence Hit by Ransomware
One of the world’s top ten universities, awarded the status of “centre of excellence in cyber-security research” by the UK’s GCHQ, has been hit by a so-far unrecognized strain of ransomware. This comes just one month after many UK health trusts were struck by the global WannaCry ransomware. In a statement originally issued yesterday and…
Climbing the Security Maturity Ladder in Cloud
These five steps will insure that you achieve the broadest coverage for onboarding your most sensitive workloads. Astute CIOs are actively migrating to public cloud to take advantage of scalability, flexibility and inherent security at a lower cost. As Rob Alexander, CIO Capital One, said at the AWS re:Invent 2015 conference in Las Vegas, “We…
U.S. Warns of North Korea’s ‘Hidden Cobra’ Attacks
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) released a technical alert on Tuesday on behalf of the DHS and the FBI to warn organizations of North Korea’s “Hidden Cobra” activities, particularly distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The threat actor dubbed by the U.S. government “Hidden Cobra” is better known in the infosec community as Lazarus…
Relentless Attackers Try Over 100,000 Times Before They Breach a System
New report from startup tCell shows XSS attempts a noisy reminder of the overwhelming scale of automated attack techniques. One of the big reasons why security teams struggle to keep up with threats is because the bad guys are relentless with their attack attempts. The security community has long warned enterprises of the scope of…