A recent study by LastPass measured that the average employee shares 6 passwords with their coworkers. Workers are also still regularly re-using passwords across work and private domains, as well as across various accounts. In one improving area, however, the uptake in multi factor authentication im...
“Fileless malware attacks, or incidents where the malicious payload doesn’t touch the disk, but is executed directly in memory instead, are on the rise, Microsoft says. Attacks that leverage fileless techniques are not new, but were recently adopted by a broader range of malware. A couple of yea...
“Here’s a fun fact: Hackers, just like bankers, real estate agents and collectors of Star Trek memorabilia, attend conferences. Even better: they play games at the conferences. One of the games they play has attendees aggressively competing to access any device in the hall, thereby demon...
“The malware installs a special driver on the infected computer which allows for the USB devices connected to it to be shared over the Internet with the attacker’s computer. In the case of USB smart card readers, the attacker can use the middleware software provided by the smart card man...
“A U.S. commission has confirmed what many experts already believed: China has become ‘the most threatening actor in cyberspace,’ due to a persistent bombardment of U.S. military systems and defense contractors. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission is scheduled to...
“A security flaw accessible via Google’s UK motor insurance aggregator Google Compare has potentially exposed vast numbers of drivers to identity theft. The vulnerability, the existence of which has been verified by The Register, made it possible for comprehensive personal details –...
“That didn’t take long. Windows 8 was officially released a week ago and hackers have already found a security flaw in it. But that’s not even the worst news. These guys have not told Microsoft about the flaw. Instead, they’re selling it to others, reports Computerworld.̶...
“Yet, where it’s climbed the most is Russia. Russia now hosts 23.2 percent of the world’s malware, meaning most of the attacks on global computer systems — from PCs to networks to smartphones — originated by code writer in Russia. The U.S. came in second with 20.3 percent.” S...