A few days ago at PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware lab, we discovered a type of ransomware that we believe is extremely important to talk about, especially because of its novelty and its unique features. The name of this new ransomware is CryptoBit. If we compare it to what we’ve learned thus far from other ransomware, […]

Microsoft Windows users who still have Apple Quicktime installed should ditch the program now that Apple has stopped shipping security updates for it, warns the Department of Homeland Security‘s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). The advice came just as researchers are reporting two new critical security holes in Quicktime that likely won’t be patched. US-CERT cited an April […]

A detailed presentation of this research was delivered at RSA US 2016, and is available at https://www.rsaconference.com/writable/presentations/file_upload/tech-t09-smart-megalopolises.-how-safe-and-reliable-is-your-data.pdf In the past two years traffic sensors have mushroomed in Russian cities. Drivers using speed camera detectors were the first to spot the white boxes stuck to posts along the roadside. Their devices, designed to warn drivers about […]

Infecting computers with a new type of Ransomware  Sending out your resume into the net’s black hole can make the job application process feel hopeless.  Where do our resumes end up?  Do recruiters even read them?   The recipe for landing a job is already a difficult task in itself, but now we have to squeeze […]

Connections are made and maintained online via social media You can get insight into the life of a stranger through their Instagram photos, Snapchats, or profile pages, but when does it become too much? Our names alone can connect the dots for a perpetrator, making it easy to know our whereabouts. Information about where we […]

  Technology is always changing, growing, and improving our lives, whether it is at a business or a personal level. Digital transformation affects everyone. In Spain, more than 26 million Internet users regularly access the Internet from different devices, but do they always do it safely? At Panda Security, we want to lead our users […]

Microsoft released fixes on Tuesday to plug critical security holes in Windows and other software. The company issued 13 patches to tackle dozens of vulnerabilities, including a much-hyped “Badlock” file-sharing bug that appears ripe for exploitation. Also, Adobe updated its Flash Player release to address at least two-dozen flaws — in addition to the zero-day vulnerability […]