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Unsecured IoT Devices Behind Last Week’s DDoS Attack, More Likely to Come
A hyper-connected world offers a lot of benefits, but it also comes with a lot of risk. President Obama has said it himself. Just this past week on Jimmy Kimmel Live, he wondered aloud, “How do we continue to get all the benefits of being in cyberspace, but protect our ...
McAfee MOVE AntiVirus Enables Security and Savings
Warehouse retailers thrive by taking advantage of efficiencies that happen at scale and passing those savings on to consumers. But those money-saving efficiencies aren’t just found in the merchandise on the shelves, they’re also found on the backend in the form of more efficient IT infrastructure. One such retailer with ...
Boo! The Spookiest Mobile Hacks of 2016
Endless candy, an excuse to dress up as a character from your favorite comic book, and carving pumpkins with family… What’s not to love about Halloween? But witches, ghosts, and goblins aren’t the only things to fear this time of year. This Halloween, there’s a different kind of spooky story—mobile ...
Major Websites Twitter, Spotify, Netflix Shut Down by DDoS Attack
We’re no strangers to Armageddon-scenario movies, but today a real disaster hit the internet. Using brute-force tactics that flood key elements of the internet’s structure, cybercriminals managed to shut down a variety of popular websites. The resulting chaos essentially closed the entire East Coast of the U.S., before spreading to ...
Leading E-Commerce Platform Magento Cracked by Cybercriminals
There’s a modern joy we’re all too familiar with. We’ve all made an online purchase while reclining in pajamas, computer on our lap. Everyone knows the comfort of simply punching credit card numbers into a website for a new item. That’s what we do for Converse shoes, Audi accessories, and ...
Deception and Sandboxing
Leveraging Deception Technologies to Outsmart Hackers Hackers live and breathe deception. In fact, deception is the cornerstone of most of their attack strategies. Lately, enterprises have become increasingly interested in using deception themselves as a way to get into the minds of cybercriminals and thwart them. In other words, they ...
Top 10 Cloud Collaboration Tools
Long before computers became ubiquitous, collaboration tools were an essential part of working in teams to achieve a common goal. As technology became more entrenched in the workplace, tools like whiteboards, sticky notes, and flipcharts were replaced by spreadsheets, instant messaging, and email newsgroups. With the workforce becoming increasingly mobile ...
Password-Protected Attachment Serves Ransomware
Attacks by macro malware carrying ransomware are growing, as we have recently reported. Since early March we have seen macro malware using high-obfuscation algorithms to hide itself from static and traditional antimalware detection techniques. Macro malware continues to evolve and use new tricks to evade detection. In addition to these ...
Marketing to Influence the Customer Experience
Every form of marketing today is undergoing a sea change that is more than just a disruption. New digital marketing technologies are a welcome development for improving customer experience, as companies learn how to leverage data to empower customers, sharpen marketing content, and enable their sales force throughout the Customer ...
No More Ransom: A New Coalition Against Ransomware Cybercrime
When it comes to rights, we can’t overlook digital ones. Who in the 21st century doesn’t have a life intertwined with tech-driven services? Beyond social media, critical services like banking and medical care are accessed through browsers and applications. With so much at stake, partnerships between governments and companies are ...
