Instead of losing sight of the cybersecurity forest as we navigate the compliance trees, consolidate and simplify regulatory compliance efforts to keep your eyes on the security prize.

By Waqas

The official website of Luas, a tram and light rail system in Dublin, Ireland was hacked on Thursday, January 3rd after a hacker defaced its homepage and left a message demanding ransom payment of 1 Bitcoin (BTC). In their deface message, an unknown hacker claimed that Luas was informed about “serious security holes” in their system which the […]

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Welcome back! Update your software Adobe has issued an emergency security update for two vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader that could allow an attacker to access an individual’s device remotely an

An unscheduled patch fixed two critical flaws that could enable arbitrary code execution.

By Carolina

If you are the go-to person for family and friends’ IT problems, the thought may have crossed your mind to use your skills to start a business. Almost all small businesses and homes use and rely on computers, but the users simply don’t have the time or skills to complete their own repairs or upgrades. […]

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Emotet's operators have been adding new capabilities, making the malware now even more dangerous to its enterprise targets.

Malware disguised as games and utilities struck more than 100,000 victims before being taken out of Google Play.

All of the vulnerabilities arise from improper input validations.

Congress must do more to encourage good Samaritan efforts in the cybersecurity community and make it easier for law enforcement to consistently collaborate with them.

A new phone-based phishing scam that spoofs Apple Inc. is likely to fool quite a few people. It starts with an automated call that display's Apple's logo, address and real phone number, warning about a data breach at the company. The scary part is that if the recipient is an iPhone user who then requests a call back from Apple's legitimate customer support Web page, the fake call gets indexed in the iPhone's "recent calls" list as a previous call from the legitimate Apple Support line.