2015 awards – For the fifth year in succession the AV-TEST Institute is awarding firms that offered the most efficient IT protection solutions. On February 17, 2016, the independent institute AV-TEST is awarding the AV-TEST AWARDs to companies who developed antivirus software in 2015. The awards were assigned to products grouped in the categories “PROTECTION”, “PERFORMANCE” […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Google patched Nexus devices, including a critical Wi-Fi flaw How to thwart the passcode lock screen on iOS 8 and 9? Security Affairs newsletter Round 46 – News of the week Dyre crackdown, the biggest effort to […]
An interview with Troels Oerting on the cyber security in modern organizations and the importance of the role of the Chief Information Security Officer. The role of the chief information security officer (CISO) has profoundly changed over the years, from IT security management to high-level risk management. Today a CISO is a crucial figure in […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Shodan implements a feature to browse vulnerable webcams Europol, a new EU counter terrorism centre opening this month Security Affairs newsletter Round 44 – News of the week Skype – IP will now be hidden by default […]
According a report from the Nuclear Threat Initiative, numerous nations are not prepared’ to handle the cyber attacks focusing on their nuclear facilities. Numerous nations are not “prepared” to handle the cyberattacks focusing on their facilities linked to nuclear programs, as per a recent report from the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative). The Nuclear Threat Initiative is a […]
Security experts at Core Security’s CoreLabs have discovered a hard-coded password and other vulnerabilities in the Lenovo SHAREit File-Sharing App. Lenovo today has patched several security issues related to the presence of a hard-coded password the file-sharing application Lenovo ShareIT application for Android and Windows that is available for free. The application was designed by […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Cyber defence is a profitable Hamster Wheel Energy industry under unceasing attack in 2015 Security Affairs newsletter Round 43 – News of the week Critical OpenSSH bug leaks private crypto keys just fixed LastPass phishing attack could […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs The FBI used the NIT to de-anonymize thousand Pedos on Tor Why PS4 is not so secure for the ISIS members’ communication? Russian Army is largely investing in modern UAVs Juniper will drop a function alleged developed […]
Lights and shadows of the cyber defence market that will reach 170 billion in 2020 becoming vital to the global economy. Cyber defence industry is making money. In 2015, the market will reach 75 billion and in 2020 it will grow to around 170 billion. For some countries like the US, Israel, India and Europe, […]
A study conducted by TripWire over the past year revealed successful cyber attacks on the energy industry increased as never before. US oil and gas companies are under attack, over 80% of them have reported a significant increase in the number of cyber attacks. According to Tripwire, over the past year successful cyber attacks have increased […]