A layman’s dictionary: What is APT and why is it called that?
APT is a term often mentioned in cybersecurity bulletins. Here’s what you need to know to understand it.
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APT is a term often mentioned in cybersecurity bulletins. Here’s what you need to know to understand it.
Brian Donohue and Chris Brook recap the month’s security headlines from its beginnings at Black Hat and DEFCON, to a bizarre PlayStation Network outage.
Community Health Systems breach exposes the Social Security numbers of 4.5 million patients. Were you a victim? If so, how do you react?
In the news this week: more APT campaigns, a look forward at the DEF CON and Black Hat Hacker conferences, and good and bad news for Facebook.
In the news: Microsoft’s No-IP takedown fiasco, Chinese APT groups curious about U.S. Iraq policy, Verizon says the government wants locations data, and Microsoft denies backdoor insinuations.
Microsoft moves against a malware-supporting webhosting company, NoIP, causing collateral damage in the process. The Miniduke APT campaign returns.
Miniduke APT campaign is reactivated. The malware received a number of updates, and a large part of it is apparently intended to throw off researchers. Not exactly a successful endeavor.
Whenever one hears the words ‘cyber espionage’, large-scale campaigns affecting entire national states and transnational corporations such as Aurora, Flame or Duqu come to mind. Unfortunately, cyber espionage doesn’t necessarily
This week we talked with Costin Raiu, Director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, on the topic of Advanced Persistent Threats and how they may impact businesses. The
Nowadays, we talk a lot about malware that invades our daily activities. Some are more dangerous than others — whether they target private users or companies. Organizations are also threatened