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Human weakness enabling financial cybercrime

02

May

2017

That, Boston Police Detective Steven Blair told an audience of bankers at the Boston Fed’s 2017 Cybersecurity Conference on Monday, is because too many banking “customers” are fraudsters, who take advantage of the generally laudable desire of front-line employees to provide good customer service.

Category Cyber-crime Security Written by Cio 0 Comments

Will fileless malware push the antivirus industry into oblivion?

28

Apr

2017

The death of antivirus has been prophesied for years now, but the AV industry is still alive and kicking. SentinelOne, though, believes that in-memory resident attacks, i.e. fileless malware, just might be the thing that pushes it into oblivion. They base their conjecture on the results of the attack detections made through over a million of SentinelOne Endpoint Protection Platform agents, deployed in enterprise environments across the world.

Category Malware Written by Feedproxy 0 Comments

Stealing Browsing History Using Your Phone’s Ambient Light Sensor

28

Apr

2017

There has been a flurry of research into using the various sensors on your phone to steal data in surprising ways. Here’s another: using the phone’s ambient light sensor to detect what’s on the screen. It’s a proof of concept, but the paper’s general conclusions are correct.

Category Mobile security Privacy protection Written by Schneier 0 Comments

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