May 5, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
Reuters has revealed in a recent article that US security company Hold Security has obtained from a hacker nicknamed ‘the collector’ a list of 272 millions email addresses and passwords, mainly from Gmail and mail.ru, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Reuters spoke...
Apr 25, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
(Reuters) The cyber-attackers who stole approximate $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank probably hacked into software from the SWIFT financial platform that is at the heart of the global financial system, said security researchers at British defense...
Apr 18, 2016 | Data Breaches, General Security
Our Security Related Blog Posts from Last Week in summary: A roundup of the top security related new of last week; April 18th 2016 Edition. FDIC Breach, ESET VB100 Award, FBI Director tape over his webcam & more. Millions of machines are still running Windows XP...
Apr 18, 2016 | Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
The Windows Club has released a nice list of Ransomware Decryption Tools – and while we would ordinarily just give you a link to this article, because there is a risk that the resource might become a target of a dDoS attack, we’re copying the content here...
Apr 13, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
In a blog entry from WeLiveSecurity.com – the ESET blog, we learned that the FDIC has been breached. Their systems appear to have been compromised using the systems issued to or belonging to a former employee. The data was downloaded to the employee’s...
Apr 5, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
In the world of IT security, the worst type of threat to find in your network is an ‘advanced persistent threat’ or APT. This type of threat is stealthy, and continuous. It pervades the IT infrastructure and is an actively maintained and controlled threat...
