April 6, 2016 Locky Variant Changes Communications and Spreads With the Nuclear EK 2 min read - A new Locky variant has made enough changes to avoid detection by some cybersecurity tools and fool users into becoming victims.
April 5, 2016 Firefox Extensions Can Be Reused as Attack Vectors 2 min read - Two researchers recently described how Firefox extensions can be leveraged for malicious purposes without triggering Mozilla security warnings.
April 5, 2016 New Block Ciphers From NIST Add Tweaks to Credit Card Information 2 min read - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced two block cipher algorithms that will preserve data formatting in secure POS systems.
April 4, 2016 Major Programming Languages Fail to Detect Revoked TLS Certificate 2 min read - Identifying a revoked TLS certificate is impossible for versions of PHP, Python or similar languages because of faults in their underlying libraries.
April 4, 2016 Cybersecurity Responsibility: Are Execs Passing the Buck? 2 min read - The C-suite must shoulder enough cybersecurity responsibility to understand what's happening in the tech world and how to address key issues.
March 30, 2016 Bill of Health? Ransomware Industry Targeted by New PC Vaccines 2 min read - Security companies are attempting to curb the surging ransomware industry with the help of cyber vaccines for the most serious infections.
March 30, 2016 Ransomware Ramp-Up: Boot Processes, PowerShell Under Attack 2 min read - Organizations are still being plagued by ransomware, and cybercriminals have conjured up more variants that could be dangerous.
March 28, 2016 SHA-1 and SHA-2 Certificates Being Used by Malware to Avoid Detection 2 min read - Cybercriminals may be leveraging both SHA-1 and SHA-2 digital certificates to ensure their malware passes through systems undetected.
March 28, 2016 Bad Bots Report Predicts Smaller Footprint, Bigger Kick 2 min read - Although a recent report found that the number of bad bots is shrinking, the bots are getting more sophisticated and damaging.
March 28, 2016 Samba, a SMB Protocol, to Be Patched April 12 2 min read - SerNet recently revealed that it will work with Microsoft to fix the SMB protocol SAMBA's vulnerability with a patch deployed in April.