MacKeeper failed to alert customers earlier this year that for at least four weeks, its anti-virus software wasn't receiving regular signature updates. Industry experts say any such delay is unacceptable for an AV vendor.
Cybercriminals are sneaking banking Trojans onto systems via the legitimate remote-access tool Ammyy Admin, researchers at Kaspersky Lab warn. The attacks are a reminder to watch for legitimate applications that may have been Trojanized.
The Asian security landscape continues to change dramatically, and ransomware and cyber extortion are among the emerging trends increasing in frequency and volume. Kaspersky Lab's Vitaly Kamluk shares insights and advice.
At the Black Hat event in Las Vegas later this month, researchers plan to reveal vulnerabilities in hooking engines, a critical component of security software and other applications, including Microsoft Office.
Examining the human factor in the age of cyber conflict and the new healthcare challenge concerning ransomware highlight this edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, hackers target the Republican convention.
7-Eleven has long been an innovator in retail information systems. Their challenges were they needed secure and reliable network to make it easier for store managers to stock fresh foods and order merchandise to keep pace with ever changing customer preferences. They chose Juniper Networks to overcome these...
The $900 million hospital is designed to offer the latest innovations in medical care, expanded trauma care, enhanced clinical programs, and advanced research directly affecting children.
Lurie Children's uses the latest in electronic health records (EHR), high-definition picture archiving and communications...
Outsourcery is a UK-based cloud services provider offering IT and business communications solutions. As Outsourcery continued to increase the number of cloud services to the public sector, data sovereignty was an essential part of its data security requirements.
Outsourcery needed a new secure network platform...
It's no secret that 'cloud' has become something of a buzzword in recent times. Its virtues have been extolled far and wide across the industry. And it's true, cloud services and applications are transforming the way we work. IaaS opens up vast opportunities to reduce operational costs, cut complexity and optimise...
Ransomware, specifically cryptographic ransomware, has quickly become one of the greatest cyberthreats facing organizations around the world. This criminal business model has proven to be highly effective in generating revenue for cyber adversaries in addition to causing significant operational impact to affected...
The Reserve Bank of India is forming an expert committee to study the merits of using blockchain - the distributed ledger technology that supports cryptocurrencies - to help support a shift to more cashless transactions. Experts weigh in on whether the blockchain might be useful.
An analysis of the record of the U.K.'s new prime minister, Theresa May, on cybersecurity and online privacy and a report on efforts to create an antidote to ransomware highlight this edition of the ISMG Security Report.
All fraud hurts, but when compared to other instruments and transaction channels, nothing has the potential to hurt like check deposit fraud. Account take over is still a major problem in the banking industry, and with recent mass compromise events, the risk is on an upswing.
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A recent interview about Hillary Clinton's email server controversy drew numerous comments, with respondents divided over whether users will devise ways to circumvent systems safeguards to do their jobs more effectively. Join the conversation.
There's often a dangerous trade-off made between convenience and security. That's illustrated no better than by a recent issue patched by Microsoft. It's an attack so devilishly smooth that it's a wonder hackers had not figured it out before.
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