In today’s installment of “let’s hide our security failures from search engines,” Check Point is reportedly advising its clients to ban Shodan.io search engine from indexing their sites. Read more on Softpedia. It’s somewhat reassuring to think that many of the same firms who failed to adequately secure their databases will likely neither read nor act…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Employee Data More Exposed Than Customer Data: Study
Kelly Jackson Higgins reports: Midsized companies do a better job protecting their customer information than that of their own employees or their internal intellectual property, a new study found. Nearly one-third of companies and organizations with 100- to 2,000 employees in the US, Canada, India, Australia, Japan, and Malaysia, say they don’t regularly encrypt their…
Cn: Viruses and malware hit over 25m users
Ding Yining reports: Over 25 million Chinese mobile phone users were affected by online payment-related spyware and there were about 326,000 kinds of newly created mobile payment malware last year, an industry report showed. Last year, more than 16.7 million smartphone-related viruses or malicious software emerged, according to the online payment “black industry” report released by…
UK: String of data protection breaches by Leicester City Council staff revealed
Dan J. Martin reports: Details of a string of breaches of data protection laws by staff at Leicester City Council have been published. Information revealed by the authority outlines a series of errors by employees handling sensitive documents. Among the breaches were a series of letters posted to the wrong addresses, a form containing personal details falling…
Security of mobile health apps: it’s as bad as we thought
It’s a topic I’ve covered on this site before, and even though I generally don’t include infographics from commercial entities on this site, Arxan has one on the security of mobile health apps that is important to note. With their kind permission, I am reproducing it below. You can access the corresponding report on healthcare…
Trend Micro Flaw Would Have Allowed Hackers To Steal Your Passwords
Adnan Farooqui reports: It’s ironic when programs that are meant to protect you from attackers actually open up doors from them. One of Google’s information security engineers discovered a critical flaw in Trend Micro antivirus which would not only have allowed attackers to execute code remotely but would have even let them steal all of…