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Hackers broke into the Supercell gamers’ forum and got away with forum user information including email addresses, simply hashed passwords, usernames, and IP addresses. Supercell created the popular games Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Boom Beach, and Hay Day. Motherboard reports that the breach affected 1.1 million accounts.
This February, from the 13th to the 17th, the XXII Edition of the RSA Conference, the largest event of cyber security in the world, will be held at the San Francisco Moscone Center. Major companies, suppliers and cybersecurity gurus will gather to find solutions to their business concerns and discuss industry trends — an incomparable venue in which Panda Security will be giving advice on cybersecurity strategies.
An extensive list of national and international experts will give an array of lectures and will be present as exhibitors during the five days of the event. Among the list of cybersecurity gurus you will find Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs (@Luis_Corrons), who will share his thoughts with the attendees at the Panda Security booth (4542).
In keeping with this year’s theme, “The Power of Opportunity”, we will talk not only about malware and cybersecurity predictions for 2017, but also the benefits of a strategy that combines big data and machine learning in the security of your business — cutting-edge technology that constitutes a great leap forward in advanced cybersecurity solutions and will be presented over the course of the event.
Did you know that more than 250,000 new threats are detected in our laboratory every day? We will address how to anticipate potential threats with practical examples and real cases that seem like something out of science fiction. Advanced cybersecurity and prevention are, as always,
A powerful panel of experts bringing together more than 45,000 participants and a large number of exhibitions and activities await you at the RSA Conference 2017, an event in which innovation in cybersecurity is the center of attention.
PandaLabs is Panda Security’s anti-malware lab and represents the company’s nerve center in terms of malware. Luis Corrons, its technical director, is one of the experts who will be representing the company at the Panda Security booth.
The countermeasures necessary to protect Panda Security’s customers on a global scale from all types of malicious code are produced in real time and uninterruptedly at the laboratory.
PandaLabs is also responsible for the detailed analysis of all types of malware, in order to improve the protection offered to Panda Security users.
Don’t miss your chance to consult with the experts! Join us and discover the latest technologies and pioneering developments in the industry.
When: February 13-17, 2017
Tickets: Check the price list here and get your discount by presenting the Panda Exhibition Pass: XE7PANDA (redemption deadline is Thursday, February 16th)
Where: Moscone Center, San Francisco.
Panda Security will be at booth number 4542 (look for us on the map!)
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Lloyds Banking Group fell victim to an attempted cyberattack earlier this month, which saw cybercriminals attempt to crash the online banking service over a two day period.
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The next revolution in computer science already has a name: quantum computing. Computers capable of working with the superposition of ones and zeros (using qubits, which can take both values, unlike bits, which take one or the other) are still a laboratory animal, but research is increasingly approaching the dream of developing a machine with these characteristics capable of revolutionizing everything from medicine to computer security.
The quantum era will usher in a new phase in the eternal race between defenders and attackers of our privacy. Cryptography will be the battlefield in which this war of the future will be fought, the contenders of which are already preparing for a confrontation that could take place in the coming years.
Theoretically, a quantum computer would be able to break most of the current encryption algorithms, especially those based on public keys. A quantum computer can factor at a much higher speed than a conventional one. A brute-force attack (testing all possible passwords at high speed until you get the right one) would be a piece of cake with a machine that boasts these characteristics.
On the other hand, with this paradigm shift in computing will also come the great hope for privacy. Quantum cryptography will make things very difficult for spies and cybercriminals. While current encryption systems are secure because intruders who attempt to access information can only do so by solving complex problems, with quantum cryptography they would have to violate the laws of quantum mechanics, which, as of today, is impossible.
A quantum computer would be able to break most of the current encryption algorithms.
In any case, it is still early to fear or await with enthusiasm the arrival of these algorithms. Quantum computers are neither going to start decoding passwords tomorrow, nor will they be so dangerous when, within a few years, they are finally able to do so. Predictably, the security systems that would be most vulnerable to these machines will no longer be in use when, five years from now at least, they’ve become a more everyday reality.
Until then, and as a special precaution to protect the documents and some of the more confidential conversations of a company, it wouldn’t hurt to follow some tips. The most important thing is to avoid asymmetric key encryptions such as RSA, EIGamal, or one that’s based on the Diffy-Hellman protocol. Quantum computers would be able to solve relatively easily the mathematical problems at the core of their security.
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If you have a piece of Apple technology in your house or office, chances are that it’s time you updated it.
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There were approximately 5.6 million incidents of fraud and cybercrime in the UK last year, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed.
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A few days ago, our colleagues at G-Data published an interesting analysis of Spora, a new ransomware that appeared in January. It had first been spotted by the people at ID Ransomware, and is mainly affecting Russia. A link was published in a forum detailing the analysis results of one of the samples sent by way of spam in VirusTotal. It is an HTA file that none of the engines present there detected, neither Panda Security, nor G-Data, nor any other.
Does this mean that the 53 participants in VirusTotal are unable to detect and block this new threat? Not at all. It means that at the time of the analysis nobody had bothered to write a signature to detect a file that, besides, is actually ephemeral. The important thing is to protect users and prevent them from becoming infected. If there is no other way to accomplish this than by creating signature, there’s not much you can do about it. But at least for some of us this is seems to be completely unnecessary in most cases, as in the present one.
Taking a look at the information in our cloud, we have observed and blocked Spora detections from the first moment, without having to create signatures for it. We can confirm that indeed most of the cases are in Russia, although we have also seen cases in Japan.
These are the different hashes that we’ve seen:
312445d2cca1cf82406af567596b9d8c
acc895318408a212b46bda7ec5944653
c1f37759c607f4448103a24561127f2e
c270cf1f2cfeb96d42ced4eeb26bb936
Always make sure to detect threats well in advance with a good cybersecurity solution such as Panda’s Adaptive Defense 360.
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Time is of the essence as a memorable beer is needed for your weekend party. But while you really want to surprise and impress friends with your technical and culinary prowess, the brewing options are limited. From the top shelf, just buying a run-of-the-mill industrial brew 6-pack is out, especially that Anheuser-Busch InBev has gobbled […]
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The reason cybersecurity is a process, not a one-time solution, is that the Bad Guys – whether careless or malicious employees, hacktivists, cybercriminals, or rogue governments (not to be confused with the good governments, which only spy on us for our benefit) – are a problem that will never go away. Every new and improved security measure is only as good as the people who use it and only effective until somebody comes up with a way to beat it.
If you were trying to use the public computers at St Louis Public Library this week you may have experienced more than your fair share of problems.
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