BetaNews |
IT security experts are confident they can spot a data breach
BetaNews A new study by security firm Tripwire says IT security experts are very confident they can detect a breach, and that they can detect it quite fast. For automated tools, they do not share the same levels of confidence. The survey questioned 763 IT … |
BBC News |
How to spot a fake beauty product
BBC News "They started making a faint fuzzing, buzzing noise and then a small spark came out from where the cord connects to the GHD and then a loud bang and a flame burst out from the same spot. … Viruses and malware have also attacked customers computers. |
Wikileaks has released what it claims are previously unknown fourth-generation versions of the controversial ‘government’ FinFisher spyware, lambasting the German Government for allowing it to be sold to “some of the most abusive regimes in the world.”
In a media announcement fronted with statements from Ecuadorian embassy refugee and editor in chief Julian Assange himself, Wikileaks offered the files for a number of the spyware’s components, including Relay 4.3, Proxy 2.1, and Master 2.1, and zips containing ‘weaponised’ executables for the Windows FinSpy client used to monitor events such as a Skype conversation.
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 Mail & Guardian Online |
Security on the Spot Series
Mail & Guardian Online There have been numerous public examples of attacks from Stuxnet through to Flame and Duqu where the network attacked has been compromised and data has been leaking from the organisation for several years in some instances. In many … These advance … |