• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-04-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on LinkedIn-based intelligence gathering campaign targets the security industry

For the past several weeks an intelligence-gathering campaign has been using fake LinkedIn recruiter profiles to map out the professional networks of IT security experts, researchers from F-Secure have discovered.LinkedIn can be a great tool to esta... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-04-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Even encrypted medical record databases leak information

A new study from Microsoft researchers warns that many types of databases used for electronic medical records are vulnerable to leaking information despite the use of encryption.The paper, due to be presented at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-04-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Even encrypted medical record databases leak information

A new study from Microsoft researchers warns that many types of databases used for electronic medical records are vulnerable to leaking information despite the use of encryption.The paper, due to be presented at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Sep-03-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Shopperz adware takes local DNS hijacking to the next level

New versions of a highly persistent adware program called Shopperz use a cunning technique to make DNS (Domain Name System) hijacking harder to detect and fix.Shopperz, also known as Groover, injects ads into users’ Web traffic through methods researchers consider malicious […]

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