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Ryan Barnett, Principal Security Researcher, Akamai Elad Shuster, Senior Security Researcher, Akamai During its research into Credential Abuse attack campaigns, Akamai’s threat research team conducted an analysis of web logins to gain insights into how… Continue reading Part 2: The Dark Side of APIs
Interesting research: "’Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?’ Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale": Abstract: We present a scalable dynamic analysis framework that allows for the automatic evaluation of the privacy behaviors of Android apps. W… Continue reading COPPA Compliance
The chief executive officer of a Bitcoin exchange believes the theft of more than $3 million from the platform was an inside job. On 12 April, the team behind Coinsecure replaced the Indian exchange’s website with a statement. The notice reveals … Continue reading Inside Job Behind Theft of $3M from Bitcoin Exchange, Says CEO
Cryptomining transactions, seen as a terrific money-making scheme separate from the traditional online advertising, are growing faster than ever, concluded security researchers after 2.5 billion attacks were blocked in enterprise networks in the p… Continue reading Enterprise Networks Hit by Cryptominers; 2.5 Billion Attacks Blocked in Six Months
Around February this year, we came across a piece of malware that had previously gone unnoticed. Buried in the malware zoo, the threat seems to have been operational since at least 2015, undocumented by the research community. Our interest was sti… Continue reading RadRAT: An all-in-one toolkit for complex espionage ops
Reading Time: ~2 min.The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cybersecurity news weekly. Who am I? I’m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst and a guy with a passion for all things security. Any questions? Just ask. M… Continue reading Cyber News Rundown: Hacktivists Strike YouTube Music Videos
All indications suggest organizations’ adoption of the cloud is going to ramp up considerably in the next few years. According to Cisco’s Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology (2016–2021) white paper, cloud data centers will pr… Continue reading Navigating the Tech Industry’s ‘Great Shakeout’: Expert’s Advice for Securely Migrating to the Cloud
Cylance is pleased to announce a comprehensive joint threat protection solution across cloud and mobile with technology partner Bitglass. The joint solution combines Cylance’s predictive approach to endpoint protection with the Bitglass cloud-bas… Continue reading Cylance and Bitglass Now Offer Threat Protection for Cloud and Mobile
Malicious hackers have been exploiting thousands of legitimate websites since at least December 2017 in a sophisticated campaign that has disguised malware as fake software updates. Security researchers at MalwareBytes report that they have uncovered e… Continue reading Thousands of compromised websites spreading malware via fake updates
User management is a core activity for virtually all IT organizations. Having a good user management solution in place makes it incredibly easier to secure user access to valuable company digital assets like systems. For a long time, Microsoft® Wi… Continue reading What is Mac® User Management?