Top 10 Stories

This ranking is based on telemetry data received from the SpyHunter product, and this year 's data included details from four million malware infections across the US. Only 150 of the US' biggest city were taken into account. In the ranking released last year, with data from 2014, Tampa, Florida was the city with most malware infections in the US. This year, in 2015, Tampa kept its top position, with an infection rate five times...

Cyber security experts of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine are blaming Russian hackers for a new cyber attack against the Boryspil airport’s networks. Presidential Administration’s spokesman for ATO Andriy Lysenko (ATO), explained that the systems at the Boryspil airport were compromised with the Black Energy malware. If confirmed, the presence of the malware represents another proof of an Information Warfare operation conducted by nation-state actor against the Ukrainian Government....

Malware-makers are stepping up the assault on Android handsets and are now quietly redirecting phone calls to steal voice-based two factor authentication details. An update to the Android.Bankosy trojan horse means it not only locks down handsets but steals data from hacked devices. Symantec threat-throttler Dinesh Venkatesan says the trojan malware opens a backdoor which turns on unconditional call forwarding and silent mode such that victims are never alerted about redirected incoming calls. View full...

IT security firm Trustwave has been sued by a Las Vegas-based casino operator for conducting an allegedly "woefully inadequate" investigation following a network breach of the casino operator’s system. Affinity Gaming, an operator of 5 casinos in Nevada and 6 elsewhere in the United States, has questioned Trustwave's investigation for failing to shut down breach that directly resulted in the theft of credit card data, allowing credit card thieves to maintain their foothold during the...

According to the Canadian CBC, a man named Pete Stevens has found a 30-gigabyte hard drive at a recycling depot in Halifax. The media support contains personal information including the names and numbers of defence personnel, it seems to belong to the military. Pete Stevens has found the hard drive about one year ago but only recently he launched a recovery software and recovered hundreds of files that appear to be from the years 1999...

The US government has noticed an increase in attacks that penetrate industrial control system networks over the past year. Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, or ICS-CERT said he systems are vulnerable because they are exposed to the Internet. ICS-CERT spokesman Marty Edwards said that more hackers were gaining access to that control system layer. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: TechEye

The sport of holding Apple, Google and other tech companies over a barrel to demand backdoors now has a new player: New York. The state assembly has come up with a proposed bill that would ban encrypted mobile phones and slap manufacturers with a $2,500 fine per phone sold in the state of New York without a backdoor. In a nutshell, backdoors are security holes – for example, an undocumented master decryption key – knowingly added to...

Researchers have found that dozens of mobile health apps are vulnerable to at least two of the top ten mobile risks identified by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) project. In its 5th Annual State of Application Security Report, application protection provider Arxan contrasts user perception with the reality of mobile app security. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Graham Cluley

UK dry cleaners find over 22,000 memory sticks and mobile phones left in customers' pockets each year, but only 53 percent of the lost devices are returned to their owners.  That's according to ESET which questioned 500 dry cleaners to find out how many USBs and cell phones are lost each year. About four USB sticks are left at each dry cleaner every year which, given the number of dry cleaners in the UK, would...

It’s 2016, and it would be nice to think that after several years of doing business online, companies have got a better handle on how to protect their websites from attacks. I’m afraid I have depressing news for you.  Many sites are continuing to make big mistakes. Well-known threats like cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks continue to challenge many websites, including household names. Take eBay, for instance. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Business Insights