Microsoft has published its latest biannual Security Intelligence Report (SIR), covering the second half of 2015. The SIR "analyzes the threat landscape of exploits, vulnerabilitie... More
Tag Archives: cyber attack
Microsoft Publishes Security Intelligence Report, Including Cloud Data for the First Time (Neowin)
What’s Next For Network Security (Dark Reading)
Network security as we know it ultimately will operate hand in hand with software-defined networking (SDN) and virtualization, security experts here said. SDN could be a game-chan... More
Aging and Bloated OpenSSL is Purged of Two High-Severity Bugs (ARS Technica)
Maintainers of the OpenSSL cryptographic library have patched high-severity holes that could make it possible for attackers to decrypt login credentials or execute malicious code o... More
Criminals Peddling Affordable AlphaLocker Ransomware (Threat Post)
It’s rare a week goes by now without a new strain of ransomware making headlines. Researchers described one of the latest earlier this week, a relatively affordable ransomware-as... More
Top U.S. Computer Science Undergrad Programs Flunk Cybersecurity (Forbes)
A new study out from CloudPassage — a cloud security firm based in San Francisco — concludes that the American higher-education system is failing at preparing students for care... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, May 8, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates Apple OS X: Apple has released an update for OS X El Capitan v10.11 and later for XCode 7.3.1 to fix a heap-based buffer overflow issue that existed in ... More
Check Your Spotify Account: Users Report Unusual Activity After Credentials Posted Online (Financial Post)
If you use the popular music streaming service Spotify, there is a chance you may be vulnerable after a report has surfaced that the emails, usernames, passwords and other details ... More
Firefox: Mozilla Patches Critical Flaws that let Attackers Execute Malicious Code (ZD Net)
Mozilla has released Firefox 46 and patched several memory bugs that could let an attacker take control of a system. The new version of Firefox includes fixes for 10 security issu... More
Hackers Steal Millions of Minecraft Passwords (BBC)
Hackers have stolen login data for more than seven million members of the Minecraft site Lifeboat. Lifeboat lets members run servers for customised, multiplayer maps for the smart... More
How to Stay Secure at the Hotel on a Business Trip (Dark Reading)
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