Google-owned VirusTotal starts analyzing Mac malware in a sandbox
VirusTotal, the most widely used online file-scanning service, is now executing suspicious Mac apps submitted by users inside a sandbox to generate information that could improve the analysis and detection of Mac malware. This comes at a time when, according to security vendors, the number of potentially unwanted Mac OS X applications, especially adware programs, […] more…File-encrypting ransomware starts targeting Linux Web servers
Ransomware authors continue their hunt for new sources of income. After targeting consumer and then business computers, they’ve now expanded their attacks to Web servers. Malware researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web have recently discovered a new malware program for Linux-based systems that they’ve dubbed Linux.Encoder.1. Once run on a system with administrator privileges it […] more…Smart car cyberattack warning: Flaws found in security systems
How Australia acts today will determine the security and safety of driverless cars, autonomous vehicles and intelligent transport systems in the future, with academics warning there is a risk of in-vehicle cyber attack without appropriate safeguards. more…How to identify and thwart insider threats
It is often cited that an enterprise’s employees are its biggest vulnerability. What are company’s doing about it? In a significant number of cases, companies are perhaps doing nothing. According to the SANS Institute and SpectorSoft, 74 percent of the 772 IT security professionals they recently surveyed are “concerned about malicious employees.” The survey pool […] more…Night-vision goggles to be used to thwart pirating of new Bond film
Pirates, forget the hide-it-in-the-popcorn-box trick: staff will have gadgetry on par with what 007 would get from Q. more…Xerox bets printed memory labels, encryption can thwart counterfeiters
Xerox launched two printed memory labels including one with encryption designed to track a product’s condition, handling and authentcity. more…Who can stop malware? It starts with advertisers
As the practice of delivering malware through online ads becomes increasingly popular among cyber criminals, the advertising industry has to rethink how it handles online advertisements. In the month of August alone, researchers at the antivirus firm Malwarebytes have found and reported several so-called malvertising campaigns, including the big campaign that inserted malicious ads into the […] more…Kaspersky denies faking anti-virus info to thwart rivals
Responding to allegations from anonymous ex-employees, security firm Kaspersky Lab has denied planting misleading information in its public virus reports as a way to foil competitors. “Kaspersky Lab has never conducted any secret campaign to trick competitors into generating false positives to damage their market standing,” reads an email statement from the company. “Accusations by […] more…Windows 10 Start Menu wins major design award — Microsoft proves haters wrong
When Microsoft unveiled its legendary Start Menu in Windows 95, it changed everything. The usability resonated with consumers, arguably leading to a huge increase in personal computer sales. While the menu remained mostly unchanged for many years — apart from small additions and appearance tweaks — Windows 8 replaced it with a Start Screen that […] more…EaseUS Partition Master Review- The best partitioning software
EaseUS Partition Master is the best partitioning tool and must look at one only if you need more power than the Windows Disk Management tool. This is one of those utilities provided to the PC users having all standard as well as advanced features which are must for any disk partitioning tool. This software does […] more…FBI again thwarts Tor to unmask visitors to a Dark Web child sex abuse site
Did the FBI plant a drive-by installation of some kind of malware on hundreds of thousands of computers so it could track down paedophiles? more…Gene therapy advance thwarts brain cancer in rats
Researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering have designed a nanoparticle transport system for gene delivery that destroys deadly brain gliomas in a rat model, significantly extending the lives of the treated animals. The nanoparticles are filled with genes for an enzyme that converts a prodrug called ganciclovir into a potent […] more…Smartphone ‘kill switch’ effectively thwarts thieves
Smartphones thefts dropped sharply last year, thanks to security innovations such as Apple’s “Find My Phone” remote-locator feature. However, a surprising number of consumers still don’t protect their phones with password locks, according to a survey from Consumer Reports. An estimated 2.1 million Americans had phones stolen last year, down from 3.1 million in 2013, […] more…Startup service proxies Web, email to purge malware
Startup Menlo Security is offering a proxy service designed to take the risk out of Web traffic and email by proxying them and delivering just a rendering of the content. When Isolation Platform is available in a few months it will initially support Web traffic, and later this year will expand to include email and […] more…More information
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