More than 130 Android apps on the Google Play store have been found to contain malicious coding, possibly because the developers were using infected computers, according to security researchers. Google has already deleted the apps from its Play store. The developers behind the apps probably aren’t to blame for including the malicious code, Palo Alto …
SIDN, the Dutch domain registry, has released a report which reports that the banking sector don’t have adequate DNSSEC security. The DNSSEC Inventory 2017 (currently only in Dutch) describes the DNSSEC security status of the Netherlands’ most important domain names, of which the biggest offenders are the Dutch banking industry. SIDN analysed more than seven …
CloudPets user data, possibly including children’s voice messages were hacked and held for ransom According to security researcher Troy Hunt, a series of web-connected, app-enabled toys called CloudPets have been hacked. The manufacturer’s central database was reportedly compromised over several months after stunningly poor security, despite the attempts of many researchers and journalists to inform …
The Internet Society, along with 50 organizations and trade associations and nearly 90 individual experts have written a statement to express deep concerns over the proposal that U.S. Department of Homeland Security may require individuals to disclose their social media account passwords as a condition of entry into the United States. Last week, the new …
A blog called Cyberscoop reports that Three years after hackers used a spearphishing attack to successfully gain access to internal data at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the data is still being passed around and sold on black markets for $300, complete with claims that it’s never been leaked before. The 2014 …
CNNMoney investigated 20 years of internet records using DomainTools, which tracks registrations and transfers. Some are obvious choices he acquired long ago, like TrumpOrganization.com and TrumpBuilding.org. The recently elected 45th US President Donald Trump has a vast online portfolio of domain names — digital addresses that foreshadowed his political career, business projects and accusations of …
Yahoo is yet again warning users of potentially malicious activity on their accounts between 2015 and 2016, the latest development in the internet company’s investigation of a mega-breach that exposed 1 billion users’ data several years ago. In a statement, Yahoo tied some of the potential compromises to what it has described as the “state-sponsored …
Cyber criminals in Ireland are said to be targeting email accounts of Irish solicitors in an attempt to steal tens of thousands of euros from unsuspecting home buyers. The Law Society confirmed that a number of Irish-based legal firms have been subjected to this kind of assault named ‘Friday Afternoon Fraud.’ This kind of fraud …
A new analysis by Beaming reports that the volume of attacks hitting individual company firewalls passed the 1,000 per day mark, on average, for the first time in November 2016. This indicated a 310 per cent increase in the volume of attacks seeking out Internet of Things devices between the first and final quarters of …
A new report published State of DNSSEC Deployment 2016 there has been steady and strong growth in both the statistics around DNSSEC signing and validation — and also in the number of tools and libraries available to support DNSSEC. That growth, however, is not evenly distributed. While many separate sites provide DNSSEC statistics, this report that …