Category Archives: Security News

Microsoft pushes out massive security update for Internet Explorer

June 11, 2014   Security News
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Six down, six to go. Today is the Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June, and it comes with seven new security bulletins. The good news is that five of the seven are only rated as Important, but one of the two Critical security bulletins—the cumulative update for Internet Explorer—is huge.
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One-click test finds Gameover Zeus infections on PCs

June 11, 2014   Security News
Users can test by simply visiting a Web page if their computers have been infected with Gameover Zeus, a sophisticated online banking Trojan that law enforcement officers temporarily disrupted last week.
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Hackers behind iPhone ransom attacks arrested in Russia

June 11, 2014   Security News
Russian authorities arrested a man and a teenaged boy from Moscow under suspicion that they compromised Apple ID accounts and used Apple’s Find My iPhone service to hold iOS devices for ransom.
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KnowBe4 backs its training with a crypto-ransom guarantee

June 9, 2014   Security News
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Ransomware attacks like CryptoLocker have been plaguing users for a while now. The recent shutdown of the Gameover Zeus botnet has led to a dramatic decline in these types of attacks, but you can expect that cybercriminals will regroup and launch new ones soon enough. But KnowBe4, a company that offers security awareness training, is so confident it can teach users to protect themselves, it’s offering to pay the ransom if a customer falls victim to a ransomware scheme.
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EU privacy laws will apply to U.S. companies who do business in Europe

June 7, 2014   Security News
EU justice ministers on Friday reached a partial agreement on planned new data privacy laws, but they still disagree about how to implement them.

Ministers agreed on the rules that govern international data transfers and on the territorial scope of the data protection regulation. In short, EU data protection laws will apply to non-European companies if they do business in the EU. The existing laws weren’t clear on this point.

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