Cisco Talos said that 3.2 million servers are vulnerable to the JBoss flaw used as the initial point of compromise in the recent SamSam ransomware attacks.
Tag Archives: Cryptography
Microsoft Wins Widespread Support in Privacy Clash With Government
Privacy advocates are cheering Microsoft’s lawsuit against the US government over data requests.
Decryption Tool Stifles Jigsaw Ransomware
Jigsaw ransomware makes big data-destructing threats to victims, but its bark may be worse than its bite now that security experts have found a way for victims to decrypt systems for free.
Qbot Malware Morphs Quickly to Evade Detection
Researchers spot new wave of Qbot infections that can shape-shift every six hours to evade detection.
ZeuS Banking Trojan Resurfaces As Atmos Variant
Atmos banking malware has perilous pedigree that includes Citadel and ZeuS.
Meet The Cryptoworm, The Future of Ransomware
The age of self-propagating ransomware, or cryptoworms, is right around the corner, says Cisco Talos.
Burr-Feinstein Anti-Crypto Bill Slammed by Critics
Security and privacy advocates, along with IT business leaders, slam the Burr-Feinstein bill as misguided and detrimental to encryption.
WhatsApp Encryption A Good Start, But Far From a Security Cure-all
Security experts cheer WhatsApp for making end-to-end encryption available to one billion consumers, but say more work needs to be done to protect digital communications.
WhatsApp Adds End-to-End Encryption To One Billion Users
Move over Apple, WhatsApp with one billion users takes center stage in encryption debate.
BREACH Attacks Revived to Steal Private Messages from Gmail, Facebook
New life has been injected into the BREACH crypto attacks by researchers who have discovered how to bypass existing mitigations.