Snapchat, Facebook, musical.ly, and Tinder among top gobblers of battery, storage and data London, UK. What do Tinder, Snapchat, Spotify, and Wattpad all have in common? Avast, the leader in digital security products for consumers and businesses, found they are all top performance drainers on Android phones when run by users, according to the Avast Android App Performance & Trend Report for Q3 2016. Avast calculated the total performance drain of the Android apps on people’s phones by combining their impact on battery life, storage capacity and data plan usage to reveal the top 20 greediest apps. News apps Daily Mail Online and…
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Today’s threat landscape is constantly evolving. In 2016 in particular, we’ve seen a huge shift with adversaries penetrating organisations from the DNC to WADA and gaining access to sensitive documents that were later leaked to embarrass individuals. Yet, while many believe that this trend starts and ends with a contentious election, it’s not something that’s going away in 2017. In fact, we’re starting to see continued and varied threats, most recently with DDoS attacks taking down the likes of the EU commission. Overall, the pace and variation of exploits driven by technically astute adversaries, will only gain momentum in the…
CISOs will shift more investment toward granularly identifying information vs. parametric measures: Depending on your business, digital information on average is doubling every three to nine months. The knee-jerk reaction to burgeoning data is to protect all that ‘stuff’: contain it behind hyper secure firewalls, deploy DLP (data loss prevention/protection) technologies at the parameter and key core switches, leverage active packet inspection technologies at the parameter, and lock down USB ports. These are all good countermeasures that help partially solve, but don’t prevent the issue. In 2017 and beyond, you will see a more deliberate movement by CISOs toward first identifying what exactly it…
Zero-Day in Intel Security Solidcore could allow attackers to successfully penetrate banks with customized malware London (UK). Intel Security has given credit to specialists at cyber security company Positive Technologies, for detecting a serious vulnerability in its Solidcore ATM protection product, which is covered in a recent security bulletin. The zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2016-8009, was found during an ATM security investigation requested by a major bank. Intel Security has issued a patch and it is recommended that this be applied urgently. Solidcore is widely used in Windows-based ATMs to detect and block malware by means of whitelisting, and to control privileges of…
GDPR. Four letters, one colossal shift in privacy compliance for companies around the globe. With organisations collecting increasing amounts of data, customers and the governments that represent them have evolving expectations about the transparency surrounding data collection, and the laws that govern the usage and reporting of it. Only recently, Whatsapp was warned by European regulators about over sharing data with Facebook, its parent company. This comes despite Whatsapp pledging in 2014 that nothing would change as a result of its acquisition. Today every enterprise is global, but regional and national data laws – including those that define where consumer…
Following the news that security researchers have discovered a new mobile malware phone Trojan targeting about 2,000 android financial apps, to make it an international threat, cyber criminals have included translation for 77 different languages. Robert Capps, vp of business development for NuData Security commented below. Robert Capps, VP of Business Development at NuData Security: “The Faketoken Mobile Phone Trojan is yet another example of dangerous mobile malware that uses multiple techniques to compromise a users mobile device in order to steal their credentials, and bypass the various mobile based multi-factor authentication techniques being employed by online merchant and financial organizations. The…
Data Will Continue to Be Weaponized in New and Inventive Ways Between the ransomware attacks that plagued the healthcare industry in 2016, and the wave of politically motivated data leaks that occurred during the run up to the election, it’s clear that the value of information now goes far beyond its sticker price on the Dark Web. Cyber-attackers have evolved beyond simply selling information, and are now opting to leverage it for far more damaging attacks, including extortion attempts and sophisticated human engineering campaigns. Data that can be easily changed, such as credit card numbers, passwords and email addresses are…
A number of Groupon users have seen hundreds of pounds stolen, as hackers snap up expensive goods using their accounts. The first sign of unapproved activity popped up earlier this month, with Groupon account holders receiving confirmation emails for products they hadn’t purchased. IT security experts from Varonis, Alert Logic, NSFOCUS, Comparitech.com, Lieberman Software and ESET commented below. Rob Sobers, Director at Varonis: “Today’s news is the result of billions of compromised user accounts from other breaches now being used to gain legitimate access to Groupon user accounts in order to make high-ticket purchases just in time for the holidays. If hackers…
Businesses and consumers alike have been affected by the almost daily threats of data breaches and the impact of these have on a continuous basis. Will such threats enable identity fraud, send a business under or even give adversaries further power to conduct ever more dangerous attacks? Michael Sutton, CISO at Zscaler, has crafted his top five predictions for the year ahead and what this will mean for the threat landscape. He discusses: Nation states ‘offensive offense’ – It’s likely 2017 will see the US and other nations step into a cyber mudslinging contest AI will be used for good and evil…
Botnet of Things: The lion’s share of growth in connected devices is related to IoT – cameras, smart watches, fitness bracelets, smart shoes, smart TVs and other connected appliances. In fact, we discussed the issue of botnets and the Internet of Things (IoT) at the end of 2015. These simple devices, with embedded computing and communication capabilities, are characterized by having no professional system or software management and relatively high mobility. They’ll never be properly secured because default passwords are rarely changed, and they experience high rates of compromise. This gives attackers the opportunity to create larger botnets that go undetected…