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Google broadens its malware sleuthing to sniff out deceptive downloads

New Gameover Zeus botnet keeps growing, especially in the US | Gain visibility into threats affecting your mobile apps or websites

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Google broadens its malware sleuthing to sniff out deceptive downloads
More types of malicious software will be identified by Google's safe browsing service Read More


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New Gameover Zeus botnet keeps growing, especially in the US
A new Gameover Zeus malware variant has infected over 10,000 systems so far, researchers say Read More


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Gain visibility into threats affecting your mobile apps or websites
This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.  Most security products and services today are focused on protecting an organization's internal users and assets. Every enterprise has security at the perimeter as well as tools that monitor the network for malicious or aberrant behavior, and these are certainly critical measures to help prevent or stop serious data breaches.What this approach lacks, however, is the ability to see threats that target a company's numerous websites and mobile apps. Oftentimes a company's web or mobile assets will be intentionally corrupted by hackers or inadvertently left at risk due to various vulnerabilities. For example, criminals often hack legitimate websites in order to host phishing attacks or to steal login credentials via SQL injection. Attackers plant fake mobile apps in various app stores, hoping to steal data from a company's customers as they attempt to do their business with a legitimate-looking application that is actually skimming credentials and account information. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More


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The New Mobility: Astonishingly Simple and Powerful
Mobility has not only changed how we live, it is also dramatically changing the network infrastructures that we rely on. For the better. As organizations cope with a tidal wave of mobile users, mobile applications, and demand for pervasive access, it's becoming clearer that prior-generation approaches to providing mobility are breaking. Learn more

Survey: Most hackers do it for the lulz
A majority of hackers are in it for the thrill, and hardly any think they'll get caught. Read More

The biggest iPhone security risk could be connecting one to a computer
Design quirks allow malware to be installed on iOS devices and cookies to be plucked from Facebook and Gmail apps Read More

DARPA contemplates vast ocean network
Probably one of the last and perhaps unforgiving areas of the world not truly “wired” is above and below the ocean.Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) want to explore the possibility of seriously changing that notion and develop what it calls “a system-of-systems architecture and critical components to support networked maritime operations, to include undersea, surface, and above surface domains.”At this point it is only issuing a Request For Information to understand what would be involved in building such a system.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More


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