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These top-ranking Windows 10 client antivirus products were tested on three primary criteria: protection, performance, and usability.
Read More »The best and worst of Black Hat 2019
Black Hat hit high notes and low last week in Vegas. Here's our roundup of what you missed.
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A watering hole attack used Slack for its command-and-control communications to avoid network and endpoint detection.
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New Verizon report shows a big gap between organizations' mobile security risk concerns and mobile security best practices they implement.
Read More »Malicious Urls Now Rampant: Study
Almost half of the respondents said the volume of URL-based attacks had increased over the last year
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Microsoft has removed eight applications from its app store for Windows that were mining Monero cryptocurrency without users' knowledge.
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Android users are being warned after nefarious, fake apps were found on the Google Play Store. Android is one of the most used pieces of software in the world, with the Google mobile OS used on more than two billion active devices each month. And its userbase are no strangers to …
Read More »What is a cyber attack? Recent examples show disturbing trends
From virtual bank heists to semi-open attacks from nation-states, the last couple of years has been rough on IT security. Here are some of the major recent cyber attacks and what we can learn from them.
Read More »For developers, the focus is deep learning, multiplatform, and coding skills
On GitHub, developers are spending more time on cross-platform development, deep learning, and acquring new coding skills, based on the popular code-sharig site’s analysis of activity on GiHub in 2017. Google’s Angular JavaScript framework and TensorFlow machine learning library have experienced upticks in participation. Projects for learning, such as GitHub’s …
Read More »Is source code inspection a security risk? Maybe not, experts say
Some information security insiders raised a red flag when Russian requests to review security software code became known. The controversy may be a tempest in a teapot.
Read More »KRACK Wi-Fi attack threatens all networks: How to stay safe and what you need to know
A devastating flaw in Wi-Fi’s WPA security protocol makes it possible for attackers to eavesdrop on your data when you connect to Wi-Fi. Dubbed KRACK, the issue affects the Wi-Fi protocol itself—not specific products or implementations—and “works against all modern protected Wi-Fi networks,” according to Mathy Vanhoef, the researcher that discovered …
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