Despite awareness of the need for cybersecurity, many consumers are not taking proactive steps to keep their personal information protected from identity theft. With the increased volume of attacks and breaches, 61% of consumers surveyed claimed that they are more worried about cybersecurity today than they were five years ago. Recent McAfee research reveals that 33% of consumers rank protecting their identity as their number one...
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Windows users whose PCs run on Intel processors can apparently expect their computers to slow down after next Tuesday. In fact, all computers using modern Intel chips – whether they run Windows, Linux or macOS – are expected to suffer a performance hit in the coming days. The reason for this unwelcome change is a fundamental design flaw discovered in Intel’s processor chips, more specifically...
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In the cyber security world, record setting has an entirely different connotation It’s one thing to talk in generalities about how massive the data breach problem is, but it’s another thing to understand the actual statistics. The numbers tell a powerful story about how pervasive cyber attacks have become These 2017 statistics, along with predictions for the coming years, provide eye-opening insight into how cyber...
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Two security researchers —Vangelis Stykas and Michael Gruhn— have published a report on a series of vulnerabilities that they named “Trackmageddon” that affect several GPS and location tracking services. These GPS tracking services are basic databases that collect geolocation data from smart GPS-enabled devices, such as pets trackers, car trackers, kids trackers, and other “[insert_name] tracker” products. Data is collected on a per-device basis and...
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The Italia cyber security expert Marco Ramilli, founder of Yoroi, published an interesting analysis of a quite new InfoStealer Malware delivered by eMail to many International Companies. Attack attribution is always a very hard work. False Flags, Code Reuse and Spaghetti Code makes impossible to assert “This attack belongs to X”. Indeed nowadays makes more sense talking about Attribution Probability rather then Attribution by itself. “This attack belongs to X...
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