Google says it removed over 700,000 bad or malicious apps from the Play Store in 2017, up 70% from 2016. The company also says it banned over 100,000 developer accounts belonging to “bad actors” who tried “to create new accounts and attempt to publish yet another set of bad apps.” These numbers were published today in an end-of-year report authored by Andrew Ahn, Product Manager...
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Starting March 1st 2018, Windows Defender and other Microsoft products will begin to remove programs that display coercive behavior designed to pressure a user into purchasing their software. This includes registry cleaners and system optimizers that offer free scans, detect issues with alarming messages, and then require the user to purchase the product before fixing anything. To prepare for this change, Microsoft has updated their software evaluation...
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The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) has just released its Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report. OTA’s annual analysis found that cyber incidents targeting businesses nearly doubled from 82,000 in 2016 to 159,700 in 2017. Since the majority of cyber incidents are never reported, OTAbelieves the actual number in 2017 could easily exceed 350,000. The report analyzes data breaches, ransomware targeting businesses, business email compromise (BEC), distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), and...
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Cyber attacks are not single events. When attackers compromise an asset, they don’t know which asset is infected. They must determine where they are in the network, the network structure and where they can find valuable information. That means attackers carefully try to find out as much as possible about the organization. This is precisely the behavior that intelligent deception technology can exploit in order to thwart...
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Cisco has released software patches that fix a major vulnerability affecting Cisco devices running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software. Cisco ASA Software is the core operating system for the Cisco ASA Family, a class of security-centric networking devices that combine firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, and virtual private network (VPN) capabilities. According to a security advisory published today, older versions of Cisco ASA Software are affected...
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