The malicious apps have all been removed from the official Android store but not before the apps were installed by almost 30,000 users. Malware authors keep testing the vigilance of Android users by sneaking disguised mobile banking Trojans into the Google Play store. We’ve recently analyzed a set of 29 such stealthy Trojans, found in … More Banking Trojans continue to surface on Google Play
The solution to password recycling may be easier to implement than previously thought, according to a recent paper. Mandating longer and more complex passwords reduces the likelihood that users will reuse them across multiple online services, researchers have found. A team of three academics from Indiana University set out to examine the impact of prescribing … More Strict password policy could prevent credential reuse, paper suggests
ESET researchers discovered the first-ever known cyberattack conducted via a UEFI rootkit. We sat down with Jean-Ian Boutin, ESET Senior Malware Researcher who led the research and asked a few questions to shed more light on his team’s discovery and its consequences. In your white paper, you claim to have discovered the first-ever UEFI rootkit in the … More Q&A with an ESET Malware Researcher – Cyberattack via UEFI rootkit
What are the emotional triggers and errors in judgment that make you fall for an online scam? Con artists have been plying their trade since time immemorial, but the internet opened the floodgates to a whole new level of swindling. It has allowed fraudsters to take aim at an endless number of victims and at … More Scams and flaws: Why we get duped
The microblogging platform is assuring its users that has found no evidence that any data was actually stolen. Tumblr has fixed a vulnerability that it says could have exposed private user data, according to an announcement by the microblogging and social networking site. The information that could have been viewed by unauthorized parties includes email addresses, … More Tumblr patches bug that could have exposed user data
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