By Waqas

Dubbed MasterMana by researchers; the botnet utilizes every available option to target its victims including dropping backdoors and phishing attacks through business email compromise commonly known as BEC.

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It’s the time-saving technique employed by many coders - copy and paste code from crowd-sourcing 'Q&A' websites. But is it always secure?

TOMS seems like a really nice shoe company, and it just got hacked in a really nice way. But it's still a hack.

Vulnerability allows any user to launch commands through insecure web server

On Tuesday Microsoft issued software updates to fix almost five dozen security problems in Windows and software designed to run on top of it. By most accounts, it's a relatively light patch batch this month. Here's a look at the highlights.

More than half of utilities have suffered an outage or data loss in the last 12 months, but only a minority of organizations seem ready for an attack that could affect operations, a survey finds.

By Sudais

This, however, is not the first time when Chrome and Firefox browsers have been targeted in one attack altogether. Last year, Vega Stealer malware was caught stealing saved passwords and credit/debit card data from Chrome and Firefox users.

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Vulnerabilities with Pulse Secure, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Networks VPNs are called out in the advisory.

Ponemon survey data shows that only a third of IT staff say they take a security-first approach to data storage in the cloud.

Microsoft has released fixes for nine critical and 49 important vulnerabilities as part of Patch Tuesday.