The bank Bank of England, together with the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority, has cautioned U.K. banks to prepare for cyber attacks and technical failures.
Read more on Payment Source. (Note: subscription wall.)
Month: July 2018
A new malware campaign that uses two stolen code-signing certificates shows that such certificates continue to be popular among malware authors. But there is a positive side to malware authors’ use of stolen certificates.
More on Virus Bulletin’s blog.
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Brave Move Good For Tor And Privacy
The Brave browser has introduced the ability to turn on Tor in private tabs, a move that is good for users’ privacy and for Tor itself.
More on my blog at Forbes.
The operators of the Necurs botnet, best known for being one of the most prolific spam botnets of the past few years, have pushed out updates to its client, which provide some important lessons about why malware infections matter.
More on Virus Bulletin’s blog.
A new malicious spam campaign that has been targeting Internet users in the U.K. serves as an important example of how banking malware targets business as well as home users.
Read more on Payment Source. (Note: subscription wall.)
The GDPR doesn’t mandate how data requests should be made, but it does say that organizations handling personal data should be prepared to handle the requests. One would be right to wonder whether companies are as prepared as they should be.
Read more on Payment Source. (Note: subscription wall.)
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