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Why insider threats are succeeding

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May

2015

Data leaks and other news events over the past few years have brought insider threats to the forefront of public attention, but most companies still lack the means or motivation to protect themselves from malicious insiders. The effects of insider threats are simply too big to ignore. In the most recent year on record, U.S. […]

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Attackers use email spam to infect point-of-sale terminals with new malware

26

May

2015

Cybercriminals are targeting employees who browse the Web or check their #email from point-of-sale (PoS) computers, a risky but unfortunately common practice. Researchers from #security firm FireEye recently came across a spam campaign that used rogue email messages masquerading as job inquiries. The emails had fake resumes attached that were actually Word documents with an embedded […]

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Proof-of-concept rootkit proves malware can hide on graphics chips

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May

2015

A team of anonymous developers who recently created a Linux rootkit that runs on graphics cards has released a new proof-of-concept malware program that does the same on Windows. A Mac OS X implementation is also in the works. The developers are trying to raise awareness that malware can infect GPUs and that the security […]

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