Feb 16, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
In a research survey by Balabit, the most common method of entry into an organization is … Insider Access. Balabit surveyed whether IT professionals consider the outsider or insider threats more risky – noted that those attacks that are started from...
Feb 15, 2016 | Browser Security, General Security
Windows users and those with Adobe Flash Player and/or Java installed, it’s time to update again! Microsoft just released 13 updates to address more than three dozen unique security vulnerabilities. Adobe issued security fixes for Flash Player that plugs at...
Feb 12, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
Facebook and other Social Media sites setup ‘age limits’ when they opened themselves up for public use – however, many young children simply lied about their age and joined up to use the popular social media sites. This means, that when they opened...
Jan 29, 2016 | Browser Security, General Security
The maintainers of the OpenSSL cryptographic code library have fixed a high-severity SSL vulnerability that made it possible (under certain circumstances) for attackers to obtain the key that decrypts communications secured in HTTPS and other transport layer security...
Jan 28, 2016 | General Security
In recent months, ESET has analyzed several threats that have been detected in high volumes, higher than usual in many countries such as Germany and Spain. Perhaps the most interesting case analyzed recently concerns the Nemucod malware, which was spreading Teslacrypt...