The weak link in the enterprise security chain: Falling for phishing
New research suggests that human error and a lack of knowledge concerning online scams remain a risk to enterprise security. The report, McAfee Labs Threats Report: August 2014 (.PDF), claims that...
View ArticleInside a Russian Malware Scheme That Hijacked 500,000 Computers
At its peak, the malware ring was running malware on half a million computers, using keystroke logging to harvest banking passwords and then putting the computers to work in a botnet. By growing slowly...
View ArticleGhosts In The Machine Language
HEARTBLEED. Goto Fail. Shellshock. POODLE. These are the inscrutable monikers of this year’s crop of overlooked errors in widely distributed software programs. Each represents a little digital thread,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases Emergency Security Update
Microsoft today deviated from its regular pattern of releasing security updates on the second Tuesday of each month, pushing out an emergency patch to plug a security hole in all supported versions of...
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