The malware landscape changed last year compared to previous years, with attackers increasingly focus on the mobile channel and embracing cryptoransomware, according to a new report from Trend Micro.
Chinese adversaries were the most active state-sponsored cyberthreat groups last year, according to report released by CrowdStrike, but it was Vietnam, not the US, that was its top target.
A new front has opened up in the Operation Pawn Storm cyber-espionage operation - an iOS app that spies on users, up to and including secretly turning on the phone's microphone to listen in to meetings and conversations.
The average company loses $US92.3 million a year to mobile fraud, according to a new survey of 250 companies from across a wide spectrum of industry verticals.
If you still haven't seen the new movie Michael Mann movie, Blackhat, with Chris Hemsworth playing the lead, you won't be getting any new insights into how hackers work.
There is a widening gap between what security executives believe to be true and the reality of cyberthreats, according to the Cisco 2015 Annual Security Report released today.
Mobile users encountered malware 75 per cent more often in 2014 compared to 2013, according to a new report from San Francisco-based mobile security firm Lookout, Inc.
We'll be seeing more severe vulnerabilities like Shellshock and Heartbleed in 2015, predicts Akamai Technologies Inc., the leading content delivery network. The use of cheap online hacking toolkits will continue to proliferate, as will politically motivated attacks such as those during last year's World Cup.
According to the Open Security Foundation, three out of 10 of the all-time worst security breaches happened this year. That includes 173 million records from the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, 145 million records at Ebay, and 104 million records from the Korea Credit Bureau. And that's not counting the 1.2 billion user names and passwords reportedly stolen by Russian hackers, or the 220 million records recently discovered stolen from gaming sites in South Korea.
The rapid growth of the mobile sector has had an unexpected dividend by bringing down the costs and improving the quality of motion sensors, screens, and processors it has helped usher in a new era of virtual reality technology.
Open source software, once just the domain of technology hobbyists, is taking over the software world
The latest release of Fedora, nicknamed "Heisenbug," is a step towards making Fedora a player in the mobile arena. Fedora 20 also includes more support for cloud, and this is also the first release that supports cheap, low-power ARM processors as a primary architecture, in addition to Intel and AMD chips.
The newest release of Ubuntu, dubbed Saucy Salamander, doesn't offer much in the way of new features – except for the introduction of Ubuntu Touch for mobile platforms.
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The latest version of Fedora, nicknamed "Schrodinger's Cat", features a number of improvements aimed at IT users. But its strict adherence to the open source philosophy means that it continues to be problematic for typical end users.
