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Anthem Agrees to Settle 2015 Data Breach for $115 Million

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Jun

2017

Like many companies hit by data breaches, Anthem, the United States’ largest for-profit health care company, has been forced to watch from the sidelines while the incident plays out in court. An end finally appears to be in sight however. Late Friday the company agreed to settle a series of lawsuits stemming from the 2015 […]

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Another RCE Vulnerability Patched in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

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Jun

2017

Google Project Zero continues to scrape away at the ubiquitous Microsoft Malware Protection Engine at the core of many security products embedded in Windows, and it continues to discover new critical vulnerabilities. The latest, another remote code execution flaw, was patched on Friday after it was privately disclosed June 7 by researcher Tavis Ormandy. The […]

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Svpeng Behind a Spike in Mobile Ransomware

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Jun

2017

The sting of mobile ransomware grew more painful in 2017 with attacks increasing a whopping 3.5 times in the first quarter compared to the same time a year ago. Behind those attacks were a quarter million Trojan installation packages targeting Android devices that sought to extort between $100 to $500 from victims. German smartphone users […]

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