By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols When Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service at Amazon’s US-EAST-1 data centers went down, things went bad. Very, very bad. How bad? Popular sites such as Quora, Business Insider, Netflix, Reddit and Slack either crashed entirely or… Continue Reading
By: Bill Brenner Researchers at Palo Alto Networks discovered 132 Android apps on Google Play tainted with hidden IFrames linking to malicious domains in their local HTML pages. Interestingly, the malware is Windows-based. [Read more…] Source: Naked Security by Sophos
By: Pedro Hernandez The version 2.0 release of the Azure Command Line tool allows administrators to configure and manage more Azure cloud services, including SQL Server and Redis. Azure Command Line (CLI) 2.0 is now generally available, bringing with it… Continue Reading
By: Kacy Zurkus Macs are really no more secure than a PC, but for many years there just weren’t as many out there because of the expense of the hardware and other issues. They’ve historically been a much less popular choice… Continue Reading
By: Marc Stevens (CWI Amsterdam), Elie Bursztein (Google), Pierre Karpman (CWI Amsterdam), Ange Albertini (Google), Yarik Markov (Google), Alex Petit Bianco (Google), Clement Baisse (Google) Today, more than 20 years after of SHA-1 was first introduced, we are announcing the… Continue Reading
By: Elena Titova No business, small or large, can afford to ignore cyber security. According to a recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 60 percent of cyber-attacks target SMBs, largely because they are easier targets. But you don’t have to… Continue Reading
By: MORGAN CHALFANT Yahoo issued a new warning to some users on Wednesday, indicating that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach revealed by the company last year. “Based on the ongoing investigation, we believe a… Continue Reading
By: Zeljka Zorz WordPress released the newest version (4.7.2) of the popular CMS, ostensibly fixing three security issues affecting versions 4.7.1 and earlier. What the WordPress team didn’t share at that time is that the update also secretly fixes a… Continue Reading
By: Danny Bradbury A new type of attack should make Tor users – and countless dogs around the world – prick up their ears. The attack, revealed at BlackHat Europe in November and at the 33rd Chaos Computer Congress the… Continue Reading
By: Chris Preimesberger Hewlett-Packard Inc. came out Jan. 31 with two new mobile thin clients that certainly look like any other laptop one can find at Best Buy or on any online retail site you can name. There’s a different… Continue Reading