Lily Hay Newman September 22nd, 2017     A rash of malware hit the Google Play store this summer. And while Google has taken big steps to improve Android security, there’s no clear end in sight.   The standard advice for Android users to avoid downloading malicious apps is simple: Only get apps from the… Continue reading How Malware Keeps Sneaking Past Google Play’s Defenses

September 23rd, 2017 By Catalin Cimpanu     Coinhive is quickly becoming the Martin Shkreli of the Internet, going from an innovative tool that lets you mine Monero with your browser, to a technology abused by hoards of malware authors.   Coinhive, as a tool, is a JavaScript library that website owners can load on… Continue reading Coinhive Is Rapidly Becoming a Favorite Tool Among Malware Devs

23rd September, 2017  by Paul Ducklin     Finnish security researcher Juho Nurminen is a bit of a retweet celebrity right now, for all the wrong reasons.   Not his wrong reasons, but the wrong reasons of Adobe’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT).   To explain. Most security teams publish encryption keys so that… Continue reading Adobe security team posts public key – together with private key

Java Runtime version 9 is now out!   http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre9-downloads-3848532.html   Make sure to uninstall all older versions before installing this latest one! Or you can use Java’s own Uninstaller Tool here: https://www.java.com/en/download/help/uninstall_java.xml Take a look at the best antivirus, anti-malware, anti-spy, etc. software Powered by WPeMatico

Don’t fear the software shopkeeper: T&Cs banning bad reviews aren’t legal in America Doesn’t stop them trying to put the frighteners, tho By Iain Thomson in San Francisco 22 Sep 2017 at 23:32 15 SHARE ▼ DerbyCon Security vendors are inserting language into their products’ terms and conditions that attempt to silence critics, folks attending this year’s DerbyCon conference… Continue reading Don’t fear the software shopkeeper: T&Cs banning bad reviews aren’t legal in America

by Michael Mimoso   Organizations continue to leak data through publicly accessible Amazon S3 buckets, pointing a harsh finger at continued lax attitudes toward the custodianship of sensitive data. Verizon is the latest business affected by this epidemic, leaking in this case files marked confidential from an internal middleware system called DVS. Researchers at Kromtech… Continue reading Verizon Wireless Internal Credentials, Infrastructure Details Exposed in Amazon S3 Bucket

 Byawn Kawamoto Global warming and artificial intelligence rate as less of a threat to human health, safety, and prosperity, than getting hacked, according to a survey released today.   Criminal hacking is the greatest threat to Americans’ well-being, according to a new survey that found it outranks air pollution, motor vehicle accidents, and artificial intelligence.… Continue reading Americans Rank Criminal Hacking as Their Number One Threat

September 22, 2017  By Lawrence Abrams   A new variant of the BTCWare ransomware was discovered by ID-Ransomware’s Michael Gillespie that appends the .[email]-id-[id].wyvern extension to encrypted files. The BTCWare family of ransomware is distributed by the developers hacking into remote computers with weak passwords using Remote Desktop services. Once they are able to gain access to a computer, they will install… Continue reading New Wyvern BTCWare Ransomware Released

Virginia seeks court relief from potential ‘catastrophic’ email shutdown by Northrop Grumman. The rest of the story: http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/general-assembly/virginia-seeks-court-relief-from-potential-catastrophic-email-shutdown-by/article_a0f8462b-e3b1-59e2-9404-377fb811d25c.html Take a look at the best antivirus, anti-malware, anti-spy, etc. software Powered by WPeMatico

September 22, 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu   Reports are coming in from multiple security researchers and security firms about increased activity from one of the groups spreading the Locky ransomware.   These spam waves have started on September 18 and are pushing the new Locky ransomware variant that encrypts files with the .ykcol extension, which was… Continue reading Multiple Spam Waves Detected Pushing New Locky Ransomware Version