Category: Security

November 21, 2018

Magento is a popular e-commerce platform, used by nearly 74,000 web sites in North America alone. And according to new research, 79% of them are at heightened risk from cyber criminals. Researchers at Foregenix analyzed more than 170,000 Magento websites […]

November 16, 2018

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos began receiving around-the-clock security from the U.S. Marshals Service days after being confirmed, an armed detail provided to no other cabinet member that could cost U.S. taxpayers $19.8 million through September of 2019, according […]

September 13, 2018

If you use Kodi for your streaming needs, then it’s time to sit up and pay attention, because a number of add-ons for the media player have apparently been infected by cryptocurrency mining malware that affects Windows and Linux users. […]

April 17, 2018

Fileless Malware, or Advanced Volatile Threat, is malware that can launch without being stored on disk. Does this matter? If you’re relying on your defences detecting malware before it hits you, then yes. Fileless malware outsmarts those defences, and they’re […]

March 16, 2018

our life is on your phone. It has a record of everyone you talk to or message with. It has your browsing history, your emails, your banking app and your photos. At any given moment, you are only one passcode […]

February 26, 2018

US credit bureau Equifax has formed a partnership with South Africa-based Entersekt, a company specializing in customer authentication and device security. Equifax has licensed Entersekt’s Transakt solution, which it said will add an “extra layer of security” to protect Equifax […]

February 7, 2018

Orange has revealed it is boosting cybersecurity protection for mobile devices with a new platform offering tougher security than ever before. The company is teaming up with security experts Check Point to launch Mobile Threat Protection, a new service that […]

October 30, 2017

The IT security industry needs more balance between disclosure of threats and discussion of defense practices – and greater sharing of ideas For more than 11 years now, Dark Reading has annually reported major increases in cybersecurity spending, hiring, and […]

August 17, 2017

By 2021, millions more of us will be doing our banking on smartphones and tablets, researchers say. The number of mobile bank app users is expected to leap 53% in the next four years. So far, mobile banking has been a pretty […]

August 10, 2017

Massive IoT botnet Mirai helped fuel a 280% rise in telnet botnet attack activity in the first half of the year over the previous period, but small-to midsized (SMB) business are surprisingly better prepared to deal with IoT threats in general than […]