In 2014, cybercriminals in the DarkHotel campaign targeted business executives staying at hotels in Asia. The attackers used spearphishing as well as kernel-mode keystroke logger a... More
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How to Stay Secure at the Hotel on a Business Trip (Dark Reading)
Office 365 Vulnerability Exposed any Federated Account (ThreatPost)
A severe vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office 365 handles federated identities via SAML put an attacker in position to have access to any account and data, including email mes... More
Privacy Activists Cheer Passage of Email Privacy Act, Brace for Senate Battle (ThreatPost)
In a vote of 419-0 on Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Email Privacy Act that would require the government to obtain a warrant in order to access digital com... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, May 1, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates Apple QuickTime for Window: On April 14, US-CERT advised Microsoft Windows users to remove QuickTime. This followed a report in ars technica that Apple ... More
Cloud Keynote: Sony Exec Recommends Learning from Piracy (ETC Centric)
Sony DADC NMS (New Media Services) CTO and head of strategy Andy Shenkler keynoted ETC’s Cloud Innovation Conference at NAB 2016 in Las Vegas. Rather than talk pure technology ab... More
PlayStation Network to Get Two-Factor Authentication (PC Mag)
Sony plans to add two-factor authentication to its PlayStation Network. Following Tuesday's PlayStation 3 firmware update (version 4.80), some eagle-eyed users spotted a mention o... More
Information Security Culture: It’s Time to Upgrade to 2.0 (Info Security)
Information security requires an approach that involves people, process and technology. But, while we have made great strides in technological advancements in information security,... More
Law Enforcement, Government Agencies See Phishing as Main Cyber Risk (Softpedia)
The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) was founded at the start of January this year, and on March 19 held its first Strategic Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting. Here, founding members th... More
Malware Attacks More Frequent, Harder To Fight (Information Week)
The frequency and severity of malware attacks has increased "dramatically" since 2011, according to an April 19 State of the Endpoint Report from the Ponemon Institute, sponsored b... More
