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Security should be multilayered, and use of allowlists is appropriate as one of the security levels.

Information security experts have long been sounding the alarm about the poor defense of industrial systems, and of critical infrastructure systems in particular. Time to start

It now appears the number of servers bought and sold via xDedic might have been underestimated; it’s likely many more IPs have been compromised by xDedic players.

Kaspersky Lab has lately researched an active cybercriminal trading platform xDedic. The main purpose of the xDedic marketplace is to facilitate buying and selling credentials of more than 70,000 hacked servers from all around the world.

Theoretically, every business should have already learned how to protect itself against ransomware. Actually it’s not the case.

ATMs and point-of-service systems are extremely vulnerable to malware — and software vendors are no longer patching them. Here’s how to make them safer.

Although the history of Microsoft Windows XP seemed to end in April 2014, the operating system was not completely gone; many embedded devices still ran Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 3, and as such they were dependent on its security updates.

One of the most popular techniques used to penetrate corporate defenses is the use of vulnerabilities found in working software, which, in fact, do not need to be brand-new 0-days.

The late April was especially “rich” with news related to bugs, attacks and Android-targeting malware.

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant is a tool that helps to choose which vendor fits organizations best for a particular business purpose. It is designed for CIO’s, decision makers, and IT-security specialists of the businesses.

A new APT group is seen to have been exploiting hotpatching, a now-deprecated feature in Windows operating systems, to carry out their attacks.

Locky and Petya ransomware strains took the world by storm when they shouldn’t be successful at all.

Securelist has released a new report on DDoS attacks in the first quarter of 2016.

Instead of writing their own malicious tools, criminals are increasingly using the off-the-shelf malware, and more and more often – totally legitimate software.

Remember the beginning of Terminator 2: The Judgement Day where John Connor is shown hacking an ATM with an Atari Portfolio?

Ransomware is mostly the end-user problem. However, businesses get hit too, and hit hard, especially the smaller ones.

A new strain of ransomware targets servers which is, mildly put, a troubling development.