Infosecurity News
Darkode Hacking Forum Taken Offline in Global Operation
This signifies the end of Darkode, the most popular English-speaking hacking forum, ranking in the top five of the most prolific criminal forums worldwide.
Malwarebytes Beefs Up Mac Capabilities
Malwarebytes has acquired AdwareMedic by The Safe Mac, and has launched the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac suite.
Operation Liberpy Targets Latin America with Keylogging Malware
The infection spreads via USB devices and reports all keyboard events and mouse movements to a server controlled by the attackers.
US House Intros Lifetime Credit Monitoring Bill in Wake of OPM Breach
In addition to lifetime identity theft monitoring, the bill would mandate that victims are insured for losses of up to $5 million.
Consumers Recognize Android Threats, But Won't Use Security Apps
Consumers fail to see the value for security apps: More than 80% of respondents said they want to spend $4.99 or less.
Apple Pay Gets Thumbs Up From Security Experts on UK Launch
Take-up likely to soar as big name brands jump on board
Accenture: User Names and Passwords Soon to Be Obsolete
More than three-fourths of consumers (77%) are interested in using alternatives to protect their security on the internet.
Cybersecurity Spending to Hit $170Bn by 2020
Some verticals will spend more than others: The aerospace, defense and intelligence vertical continues to be the largest contributor.
British Spamhaus DDoS Teen Walks Free
'Narko' sentenced to 240 hours of community service
Ad Fraud Attack Using Flash Zero-Day Skips the EK
The benefit of skipping the EK is that it's very streamlined and lightweight—and much harder to detect by security scanners.
Intel Security: UK Firms Failing on Staff Security Training
Research finds most exposed employees are ill equipped to deal with threats
OPM Comes Clean: Dual Breaches Exposed 22.1 Million Individuals
Huge counter-intelligence coup for nation state attacker, thought to be China
Don’t Panic: Latest OpenSSL Flaw Not a Heartbleed-Sized Bug
High-severity discovery needs patching, but will not affect many
Intrusion Protection Spending Stays Steady, Monitoring Lags
37% of enterprise security managers expect to increase their IDS/IPS budget in the next 90 days.
Security Researchers Hack Politicians Over Public Wi-Fi
F-Secure and co. prove how easy it is to access private accounts
Leaked Hacking Team Flaw Used in Attacks Before Sunday Doxing
Adobe vulnerability exploited against Korean and Japanese targets from late June
Edinburgh Council Web Attack Breaches Over 13,000 Email Addresses
Users warned to expect follow-up phishing attacks
Mysterious Hacking Group Wild Neutron Returns to Wreak Havoc
It's using an unknown Flash Player exploit to infect companies and private users around the world and steal sensitive business information.
Over Half of UK Small Firms Open to Cyber-Attack – Report
CSID claims businesses are concerned, but failing to act
Explosive Gunpoder Malware Evades All Android AV Products
Palo Alto Networks claims security tools classify it as adware
