On the Wire Podcast: Rick Holland
Criminals, like legitimate merchants, rely on their reputations in order to attract customers. When that reputation suffers, so does their business. And criminals don’t take lightly the subset of their community that preys on other criminals, stealing money or failing to deliver the goods they’ve promised. So criminals need to be very careful about who […]
Firefox Starts Marking Insecure Pages That Send Sensitive Data
The fight against the unencrypted web is gaining more and more momentum, with the latest volley coming from Mozilla, which has made a significant change in the latest version of Firefox to give users more information about insecure pages. In Firefox 51, released Tuesday, Mozilla includes a feature that marks as insecure pages that ask for […]
New HummingWhale Android Malware Emerges in Google Play
A new version of the nasty HummingBad malware that hit millions of Android users last year has appeared in a number of malicious apps in the Google Play store recently as part of a new ad fraud campaign. The new malware is known as HummingWhale and includes a new set of functionality that allows it […]
Lavabit Launches New Encrypted Email System
Lavabit, the secure email service that shut down in 2013 rather than turn over the encryption key for a user account to the federal government, has reemerged with a new encrypted mail offering based on a standard developed by the company. It’s been more than three years since Lavabit founder Ladar Levison decided to end the […]
Apple Fixes iOS Kernel Code Execution Flaws
If you’re concerned about apps being able to run any code they want on your iPhone, you’re going to want to update iOS somewhat soon. Like, today. Apple on Monday released a new version of iOS that includes patches for several arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities, including two such flaws in the iOS kernel. There are […]
NRF 2017 Recap: The Current State of Retail Fraud
Last week, Pindrop joined nearly 35,000 attendees at the NRF Annual Convention and EXPO in New York City. According to speakers from the event, retail brands will need to focus on their customers, their technology, and their leadership in 2017. Customer priorities are constantly adapting as available technology changes. These new innovations and technical capabilities […]
Gmail Phishing Campaign Racking Up Victims
There is a clever, well-crafted phishing campaign targeting Gmail users that includes a fake login page that exactly mimics the real thing to trick victims into entering their credentials. The campaign has been going on for some time but it recently began to gain attention after researchers analyzed it and broke down the techniques the […]
OS X Malware With Ancient Code Likely Used in Targeted Attacks
Researchers have uncovered an odd piece of OS X malware that includes some very old functions and may have been used in highly targeted attacks for some time. The malware is nothing fancy, and in fact is quite simple in its construction and functionality. Called Fruitfly by Apple, the malware may have been in use for […]
Google Details Scoring System for Potentially Malicious Apps
Google has introduced a number of different layers of security protection for Android devices recently, many of which are invisible to users. One of those protective measures is a scoring system that looks at how often a specific app has been downloaded and how many devices with the app are still checking in with Google’s […]