Hidden Tear, the so-called educational ransomware that was released as Open Source in August 2015, has been used to create more than two dozen spin-offs, Kaspersky Lab researchers warn.
Hidden Tear, the so-called educational ransomware that was released as Open Source in August 2015, has been used to create more than two dozen spin-offs, Kaspersky Lab researchers warn.
A Microsoft researcher has discovered what some believe could be an intentional backdoor in the popular Socan networking utility.
The vulnerability, whose existence was brought to light earlier this week, affects Socat 1.7.3.0 and 2.0.0-b8. The issue has been addressed with the release of versions 1.7.3.1 and 2.0.0-b9.
Cisco announced on Wednesday the release of software updates that address high severity vulnerabilities in switches and products designed for security and system management.
FireEye Bolsters Incident Response Capabilities with Acquisition of Automation and Orchestration Firm
Google researcher Tavis Ormandy revealed on Tuesday that a web browser installed by default with Comodo’s Internet Security product disables web security instead of improving it.
In medicine, the very belief that you’re doing something to improve your medical condition has enormous efficacy. This is called the Placebo Effect. Most modern medicines can only dream of obtaining efficacy results on par with the Placebo Effect, so strong is it.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that the latest version of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) includes Windows 10 compatibility, and brings several other enhancements.
Threat intelligence has received a lot of attention from the industry, ranging from vendors expanding their product portfolios and venture capitalists funding new start-ups to end user organizations looking for insights into advanced cyber-attacks that aren’t available from traditional perimeter defense tools. However, threat intelligence in and of itself is just another data source that adds to the complexity and velocity of having to analyze data in a manual fashion.