5 mobile security threats you should take seriously in 2018

IDGNS Mobile security is at the top of every company's worry list these days — and for good reason: Nearly all workers now routinely access corporate data from smartphones, and that means keeping sensitive info out of the wrong hands is an increasingly intricate puzzle. The stakes, suffice it to say, are higher than ever: The average cost of a corporate data breach is $21,155 per day, according to a 2016 report by the Ponemon Institute. While it's easy to focus on the sensational subject of malware, the truth is that mobile malware infections are incredibly uncommon in the real world — with your odds of being infected significantly less than your odds of being struck by lightning, according to one estimate. That's thanks...

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180M Smartphones Vulnerable To Hacker Eavesdropping

Appthority, the enterprise mobile threat protection company, announced news on Thursday (Nov. 9) that it published research on its recent discovery of a so-called Eavesdropper vulnerability, in which hackers can intercept texts, voice messages and other user data from millions of smartphones through their mobile apps. In a press release, the company said the cyberattack vulnerability is caused by “developers carelessly hard coding their credentials in mobile applications that use the Twilio Rest API or SDK, despite best practices the company clearly outlines in its documentation.” Twilio, said Appthority, has reached out to all developers with affected apps and is actively working to secure their accounts. According to the company,...

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PayThink 'Self-protection' can shield banks from new Android BankBot card malware

Recently, the Dutch company Securify came across a new sample of the BankBot Android mobile banking malware. While older samples of BankBot mainly targeted Russian financial institutions, the latest sample shows that BankBot now targets European and American institutions as well. More specifically BankBot now targets over 420 leading institutions in countries such as Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United States. BankBot is a banking Trojan horse that poses as an apparently benign consumer banking application. When the application is installed and run, it asks for administrative privileges. Once these privileges are granted, the icon disappears from the home screen. From that moment, the device is compromised...

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Google just made it waaaay easier to backup any PC

It's time to back up your PC. Here are 6 things to consider Google just launched a new way to back up your PC data. 6 things you should know about backing up your PC Is it time to rethink the old ways of archiving your data? Maybe all but one of them... Last week, Google announced the new desktop version of its Backup and Sync app, and it got me thinking: What does desktop backup even mean in 2017? Not so long ago, there was one and only way to protect the precious data riding around in your laptop: Connect an external drive (or, if you were really fancy, a network drive), then perform a complete system backup. But is that really necessary anymore? It's time to inject some modern thinking into the old notions...

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Petya: Wiper or Ransomware & How to Protect Yourself

Learn the facts about the recent Petya attack that crippled many organizations worldwide.  - Is it your regular run-of-the-mill ransomware or a wiper? - Who is a target? Why did it spread so quickly?- How can organizations better protect themselves against similar attac...

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Malware Drone Steals Data Off Computer Hard Drive

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University’s cybersecurity lab have come up with a way to use malware installed on a drone to steal data off of computers by watching the optical stream of the LED on the computers’ hard drives and sending it to a camera outside the window. The drone that steals data was created to showcase how the researchers developed a method to get around a security protection dubbed an “air gap” in which sensitive computer systems are separated from the internet to keep the information protected from hackers. If a hacker can put malware on one of the systems, it can quickly steal the secrets off a machine that is supposed to be isolated and thus protected. According to a report highlighting the demonstration,...

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