Microblogging gives us the freedom to turn our thoughts or our status posts into conversations. Social networks like Twitter have opened doors for this type of instant communication. Even shorter than Twitter’s 140 characters is bit.Ly, an insanely popular platform for shrinking long URLs. But as always, with Bitly’s effectiveness and convenience, comes great security risks. Most of us are aware that these shortened […]
Panda Security named Company of the Year at the 5th Annual “Premios Nacionales El Suplemento”
May 10, 2016
Panda Security has been awarded Company of the Year at the 5th Annual “Premios Nacionales El Suplemento“. Organized by the Spanish newspaper El Suplemento by ABC, at the “Premios Nacionales El Suplemento” well-deserved recognition is given to outstanding businesses and their hardworking professionals, who, despite the current economy, are boosting their efforts to be better leaders, stepup […]
Panda Security, the tested anti-virus
May 9, 2016
Be careful! Not all anti-virus systems are what they seem and many are more hazardous than helpful for your cyber security, so was said in a recent investigation. The investigation concluded that, today, most anti-virus’ tend to lower the threshold of Internet browser security. Can they protect us against external threats? How effective are they? […]
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Crooks Grab W-2s from Credit Bureau Equifax
May 6, 2016
Identity thieves stole tax and salary data from big-three credit bureau Equifax Inc., according to a letter that grocery giant Kroger sent to all current and some former employees on Thursday. The nation’s largest grocery chain by revenue appears to be one of several Equifax customers that were similarly victimized this year. Atlanta-based Equifax’s W-2Express site makes […]
Recently, we published a report where we discussed the numerous attacks on major hotel chains. The attacks were directed mainly towards credit card theft. Attackers do this by infecting point-of-sale terminals in these types of establishments. A few days ago, one of our Adaptive Defense 360 clients, a luxury hotel chain, suffered an attack. I […]
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Crooks Go Deep With ‘Deep Insert’ Skimmers
May 5, 2016
ATM maker NCR Corp. says it is seeing a rapid rise in reports of what it calls “deep insert skimmers,” wafer-thin fraud devices made to be hidden inside of the card acceptance slot on a cash machine. KrebsOnSecurity’s All About Skimmers series has featured several stories about insert skimmers. But the ATM manufacturer said deep […]
IT threat evolution in Q1 2016
May 5, 2016
Download PDF version Q1 figures According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab solutions detected and repelled 228,420,754 malicious attacks from online resources located in 195 countries all over the world. 74,001,808 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components. Kaspersky Lab’s web antivirus detected 18,610,281 unique malicious objects: scripts, exploits, executable files, etc. There […]
Cyber-criminals really “Like” Facebook
May 5, 2016
With 1,590 million active users per month, Facebook is the Social Network. In fact, they just posted their quarterly earnings and they are up 50%. Cyber-criminals are aware of their success. These platforms are the ideal place to “phish” for information. 18% of companies infected by malware were infected through social networks. Attackers pass as part […]