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Telcos should only retain metadata to fight serious crime, EU judge says

The legal opinion threatens the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill, say digital rights campaigners

Jul 19, 2016 3 mins

Security Telecommunications Industry

Security software that uses ‘code hooking’ opens the door to hackers

The flaws allow hackers to easily bypass exploit mitigations in the OS and third-party apps

Jul 19, 2016 3 mins

Enterprise Applications Security Software Development

Getting a handle on spam emanating from generic top-level domains

Generic top-level domains are often used for spam and malware attacks. There are steps they can take, though, to reduce the amount.

Jul 19, 2016 3 mins

Cybercrime Email Clients Security

Stopping ransomware in its tracks

Monitoring PCs for files starting to become encrypted is enough to alert CryptoDrop that something is wrong. The software then simply shuts down the malware.

Jul 19, 2016 3 mins

Cybercrime Network Security Security

Attackers launch multi-vector DDoS attacks that use DNSSEC amplification

Researchers from Akamai observed multiple attacks abusing DNSSEC-enabled domains for DDoS amplification

Jul 19, 2016 3 mins

Networking Security

IBM grows in cloud and data analytics but overall revenue slides

The company’s acquisitions are beginning to pay off

Jul 19, 2016 3 mins

Cloud Computing Mobile Small and Medium Business

How AT&T wants to use AI as a crystal ball

Machine learning is playing a growing role in the automation of its network

Jul 18, 2016 3 mins

Networking Security

How a healthcare hacker is pressuring victims to pay up

A hacker who claims to have stolen 10 million patient records is extorting victims for money

Jul 18, 2016 3 mins

Security

Attackers could steal millions through online phone verification systems

Many systems can be tricked to call premium-rate numbers set up by attackers

Jul 18, 2016 3 mins

Security Software Development Telecommunications Industry

Tech leaders challenged daily to sort through a crush of new security apps

An escalating race between good-guy developers building new security tools and bad-guy hackers launching new threats means IT has a whole pile of security apps to sift through. Here’s advice for evaluating the options.

Jul 18, 2016 10 mins

Enterprise Applications Security