The FBI today warned about a significant spike in victims and dollar losses stemming from an increasingly common scam in which crooks spoof communications from executives at the victim firm in a bid to initiate unauthorized international wire transfers. According to the FBI, thieves stole nearly $750 million in such scams from more than 7,000 victim companies […]

Since June 2015, we have seen a steady growth in the number of mobile malware attacks that use superuser privileges (root access) on the device to achieve their goals. Root access is incompatible with the operating system’s security model because it violates the principle that applications should be isolated from each other and from the […]

Surely this has happened to you before: you’re browsing online and you come across a blog or website that has a plugin for Chrome that you think looks interesting or useful. You check out the developer’s website, have a look at the benefits and decide to download it. You click on the corresponding button and […]

As the number of connected devices increases, so too does the use of platforms which allow us to synchronize them all and access our files from any location. Saving documents on the cloud is especially useful in the corporate world, where all of the team is able to access and modify information without the need […]

Traditional viruses, defined as executables that were sent en masse to cause infection on a large scale, are already controlled by protection systems (Endpoint Protection Platforms). These are popularly known antiviruses which, as the name suggests, protect the system of the user. The problem is that cybercriminals have evolved greatly in recent years and so has […]