Infosecurity News

  1. Google Moves to Ban Ads for Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency

    The ban follows a similar no-quarter approach taken by Facebook earlier this year.

  2. Playboy Develops Virtual Currency Wallet

    Online visitors will be able to pay and earn tokens to view Playboy.TV’s original content.

  3. BlackTDS Emerges as an As-a-Service Drive-By Kit for Malware Distribution

    BlackTDS hosts components for sophisticated drive-by attacks, like social engineering and redirection to exploit kits.

  4. Euro Firms Lagging on AWS CloudTrail Adoption

    Missed opportunity to use native security and compliance tools, says Sumo Logic

  5. Fortnite Gamers Warned Over Account Hacking

    Players apparently faced with large credit card charges from fraudulent purchases

  6. Microsoft Releases More Spectre/Meltdown Patches

    Patch Tuesday covers over 70 vulnerabilities this month

  7. Police Force Investigated for Possible Breach Cover-Up

    Gwent Police failed to inform ICO after discovering security issue

  8. Chinese APT Takes Aim at Pharma

    The infamous PlugX malware is targeting pharmaceutical organizations in Vietnam, aimed at stealing drug formulas.

  9. Thousands of Florida Virtual School Students Hit by Two-Year Data Breach

    The leaked information includes student and parent names, dates of birth, email addresses, school account numbers and credentials.

  10. Trojans Reign Supreme in 2017

    Geopolitics, meanwhile, seemed to guide major malware campaigns during the year.

  11. Chinese APT15 Group Steals UK Military Docs

    Government contractor targeted in sophisticated attack

  12. Nearly 90% of Firms Will Use Biometrics by 2020

    Spiceworks stats reveal tipping point for adoption

  13. Smartphone CEO Arrested After Drugs Bust

    Phantom Secure allegedly facilitated international criminals

  14. LinkedIn Updates Policies for GDPR Compliance

    LinkedIn has updated its terms of service and will become GDPR-compliant in May.

  15. IIC Releases IoT Endpoint Best Practice Guide

    The Industrial Internet Consortium is looking to simplify IoT security.

  16. Healthcare Orgs under Escalating Attack and Losing Patient Data

    A full 62% admitted to experiencing an attack in the past 12 months.

  17. CyberArk Acquires Cloud Security Provider Vaultive

    Deal will see CyberArk advance privileged account security for the cloud

  18. Two-Fifths of NHS Staff Break Policy Via WhatsApp Use: Report

    Shadow IT challenge exposes patient data to risk, says CommonTime

  19. Fileless Malware Soars as Healthcare Suffers in Q4

    McAfee spots eight new threats every second

  20. Crypto-Exchange Offers $250K Reward for Info on Attackers

    Firm gets proactive with $10m in reserves to help spur arrests

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