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2nd May 2017  by Peter Loshin   Mozilla reviews the counter-proposal from Symantec and urges the CA giant to opt for Google’s recommendation to outsource its certificate activities.   After investigating a number of issues with Symantec certificates, Mozilla joined Google in urging the antivirus vendor to temporarily hand over its certificate authority operations to… Continue reading Mozilla: Symantec certificate remediation plan not enough

  May 1, 2017  By Lawrence Abrams   A new CryptoMix, or CryptFile2, variant was released that is now using the .[payment_email].ID[VICTIM_16_CHAR_ID].WALLET​ extension for encrypted files. This is very annoying as it makes it more difficult for victims to easily identify what ransomware they are infected with when they perform web searches. This is because the .WALLET… Continue reading New version of the CryptoMix Ransomware Using the Wallet Extension

That’s one way to boost new handset sales                                      1 May 2017 at 18:27, Shaun Nichols   Google has published timelines for when it will kill off security patches for its Nexus-branded Android line.   In a quiet update just before the weekend, the Chocolate Factory revealed both the… Continue reading What is this bullsh*t, Google? Nexus phones starved of security fixes after just three years

By Ionut Arghire on May 01, 2017   Recent attacks associated with the TrickBot banking Trojan have been targeting private banks, and the threat is also sharpening its focus on business banking, IBM’s X-Force security team warns.   Campaigns observed in the UK, Australia, and Germany were showing new redirection attacks focused on new brands,… Continue reading TrickerBot Trojan Targets Private Banking

By Eduard Kovacs on May 01, 2017                                             Meeting room management devices from Evoko have flaws that can be exploited by malicious actors in attacks aimed at enterprises that use the product, researchers warned. The Evoko Liso product allows the employees of an organization to book meeting rooms from their calendar or by… Continue reading Flaws Found in Evoko Meeting Room Management Devices

April 28, 2017  by Doug Olenick   People in several Central and South American countries who want nothing more than to watch video online are being hit with a trojans that redirects the viewers to a new URL that contains malicious content.   These events were discovered by a WeLiveSecurity (ESET) research team when it detected… Continue reading Chrome extension trojan places victims in an endless malware loop

April 30, 2017  By Pierluigi Paganini   Some USB flash drives containing the initialization tool shipped with the IBM Storwize for Lenovo contain a malicious file.                                Some USB flash drives containing the initialization tool shipped with the IBM Storwize for Lenovo V3500, V3700 and V5000 Gen 1 storage systems contain a file that has… Continue reading Lenovo warns of IBM Storwize shipped with infected initialization USB drives

April 29, 2017  By Pierluigi Paganini   Security expert Chris Vickery reported a data breach at online trading firm AMP that exposed customer credit reports, and Social Security numbers.                                  The popular security expert Chris Vickery has discovered a new data breach that affected the AMP… Continue reading Expert discovered online data belonging to the trading firm AMP

Paranoid fella hid operating system, weapons manuals in USB drive cufflinks, no less                                      28 Apr 2017 at 17:54, Gareth Corfield   A paranoid Welsh Muslim who wore gloves while typing on his laptop, admitted being part of Islamic State, and, gasp, harbored a copy of… Continue reading Linux Mint-using terror nerd awaits sentence for training Islamic State

28th April 2017   By Zara Ali                                             Google is working on making its Chrome browser safer for users. The tech giant had been warning websites on using HTTPS instead of HTTP since January this year. Taking another step ahead for security, Chrome has announced that… Continue reading Chrome Will Tag HTTP Websites as ‘Not Secure’ in Address Bar Whenever User Enter Details