• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-09-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Severe AirDroid vulnerability exposes users, patch incoming

Update, 12/9/16: AirDroid says an update is coming soon to fix the security hole. This article was updated to reflect this.Popular remote management utility AirDroid has attracted tens of millions of users with the lure of sharing the messages and […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-09-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Ransomware attacks against businesses increased threefold in 2016

The number of ransomware attacks targeting companies increased threefold from January to September, affecting one in every five businesses worldwide.According to a new report from security company Kaspersky Lab, the rate of ransomware attacks agains... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-09-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Ransomware attacks against businesses increased threefold in 2016

The number of ransomware attacks targeting companies increased threefold from January to September, affecting one in every five businesses worldwide.According to a new report from security company Kaspersky Lab, the rate of ransomware attacks agains... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-09-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Attackers use hacked home routers to hit Russia’s 5 largest banks

Botnets made up of hacked home routers were used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against the five largest financial organizations in Russia.The attacks occurred on Monday, Dec. 5, and were detected and mitigated by Rostelecom, Russia... Read More