May 17, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
Today f-secure is reporting that another locky payload server has been hacked. The malicious payload has been replaced with an image that warns not to click on email attachments – although the hacker uses the term ’emails attachment’ – so...
May 16, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
By Stephen Cobb Security professionals gave a large collective sigh of sadness this past weekend when BoingBoing published this headline by Cory Doctorow: “Half of Americans reluctant to shop online due to privacy & security fears.” Sarcastic remarks like “No...
May 15, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
The Swift global financial messaging network, which is used by banks to move billions of dollars daily has reported that another malicious attack on a bank has attempted to make us of their messaging system to potentially steal millions. The announcement by Swift...
May 12, 2016 | Browser Security, Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
By Graham Cluley If you’re running Adobe Flash on your Windows, Mac, Linux or Chrome OS computer you’re potentially at risk. Adobe has issued a security advisory, warning of an as-yet unpatched critical security hole in its popular Flash player software that is...
May 12, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Wendy’s restaurants has released information about the investigation a breach in at least 300 of their 5,500 restaurants. Wendy’s said today that an investigation into a credit card breach at the nationwide fast-food chain uncovered malicious software on...
