CloudLock Raises $16.5 Million to Expand Enterprise Cloud Security Business
CloudLock, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based firm that helps companies secure data stored in the cloud, today announced it has raised $16.5 million in a Series C funding round. CloudLock said it would use...
View ArticleTwo Pieces of Malware Used in Neiman Marcus Cyberattack
Earlier this month, high-end retailer Neiman Marcus admitted suffering a data breach in which payment card data was compromised. The company says that around 1.1 million card numbers are impacted. In a...
View ArticleUsers Warned of Malicious RingCentral “New Fax Message” Emails
Users are advised to be on the lookout for malicious emails that abuse the reputation of RingCentral, the company that provides cloud computing-based phone systems. Cybercriminals are sending out...
View ArticleRedefining Malware: When Old Terms Pose New Threats
Enterprises Need to Grasp That the Very Nature of Malware has Completely Changed… I’ve often noticed that despite all of the major changes that the business world has experienced over the past few...
View ArticlePreparing for the Inevitable Data Breach: Discussion
NEW YORK – Companies need to start thinking of themselves as stewards of consumer data and be proactive about data protection, a panel of experts said this week at a town hall event in honor of Data...
View ArticleFileZilla warns of large malware campaign
Spoofed versions of the popular file transfer program FileZilla that steal data are circulating on third-party websites, the organization behind the software said Tuesday.
View ArticleCross Platform ‘Java-bot’ Launches DDoS Attacks from Windows, Mac and Linux...
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new malware that has the ability to infect systems running Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, with the goal of launching DDoS attacks. According to Kaspersky...
View ArticleAngry Birds site hacked after surveillance claims
A Sept. 20, 2012 photo from files showing Angry Birds figures at Rovio headquarters in Espoo, Finland.
View ArticleCoulson ‘knew what was going on’
Former tabloid reporter Dan Evans, left, arrives at the Old Bailey in central London where he is giving evidence in the phone hacking trial.
View ArticleDefense.Net Launches DDoS Mitigation Service DDoS Frontline
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation solutions provider Defense.Net has launched a new solution thats designed to protect organizations against DDoS attacks. The service, called DDoS...
View ArticleTarget: Attackers Used Stolen Vendor Credentials in Data Breach
Target Corporation on Wednesday said that the attacker(s) behind the recent massive data breach at the retailer likely compromised its systems by using stolen credentials from a vendor. “We can confirm...
View ArticleReview: GreenSQL Database Security
Business databases are the holy grail for hackers. Matt Sarrel reviews some products from GreenSQL that help protect databases.
View ArticleLatest encryption trick to thwart hackers is as sweet as Honey
It seems like every other week another high-profile company’s servers are hacked.
View ArticleF-Secure Launched the First Antivirus Blog Exactly 10 Years Ago
On January 30, 2004, F-Secure launched the first ever antivirus blog. The first post revealed that the company had been monitoring the Mydoom worm, a threat designed to launch DDOS attacks against...
View ArticleVenezuelan Hackers Deface Website of Peruvian Newspaper Netlima
Venezuelan hackers of the Anonymous movement have breached and defaced the website of Netlima, an independent Peruvian online newspaper that provides news on everything that goes on in Lima, the...
View ArticleRSA Uncovers Infrastructure Behind New Point-of-Sale Attack Operation
Researchers from RSA say they have discovered the server infrastructure behind a point-of-sale (PoS) attack campaign that has infected systems mostly in the United Sates, but also in 10 other countries...
View ArticleGeorgia Man Admits Damaging Firm’s Systems After Learning He Was Going to Be...
Ricky Joe Mitchell, 34, of Mableton, Georgia, has admitted crashing his former employers computer systems after learning he was going to be fired. The incident occurred in June 2012. After learning...
View ArticleArbor Networks Reports Surge in DDoS Attacks
More than 70 percent of service providers operating data centers experienced DDoS attacks last year.
View ArticleFBI: Five Charged with Hacking E-mail Accounts
Two e-mail hacking site operators and three customers have been charged.
View ArticleIsraeli Organizations Compromised by Phishing Attacks
Fifteen machines were compromised, including ones belonging to the Civil Administration.
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