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Today Appthority released our Q2 Enterprise Mobile Security Pulse Report. The report looks at three areas of interest to enterprise mobility and security teams: 1) the most common iOS and Android apps in enterprises, 2) th… Continue reading Q2 Appthority Pulse Report Finds Chat Apps Most Popular, Risky & Blacklisted Apps
New data from a report on the UK threat landscape indicates the country’s emergency services are at risk of a major cyber-attack, which could open the door to terrorist attacks as well. Historically, the sovereign country has had one of the highe… Continue reading UK at growing risk of major cyber incidents, terrorist attacks, research suggests
Malware linked to the CIA, according to documents published by WikiLeaks, was used to hack into government, financial, telecom, energy, aerospace, education and natural resources organizations based in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa, according to newly published research by Symantec. A blog post published Monday by the cybersecurity giant reads: ”spying tools and operational protocols detailed in the recent Vault 7 leak have been used in cyberattacks against at least 40 targets in 16 different countries by a group Symantec calls Longhorn.” On March 23, WikiLeaks began publishing individual packages of supposed CIA documents on nearly a weekly basis as part of a disclosure project it titled Vault 7. The controversial transparency organization redacted a majority of the executable code apparently evident in the original documents to stop readers from copying the digital weapons, according to WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange. WikiLeaks’ documents provide descriptions about specific hacking tools […]
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