Google Plans To Launch An Easy-To-Use Chrome Plug-In For Email Encryption Soon

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014

Google today announced that it will soon release a Chrome plug-in that will enable end-to-end encryption for web-based email services. The plug-in is based on the OpenPGP email encryption standard. Google’s plan here is to make encryption easy enough to use to become widespread among mainstream users. Right now, unless you are fairly technical and ...

Comcast to Encrypt Email For Security

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014

Comcast Corp. the nation's largest Internet provider by number of homes and businesses served, Tuesday said it would begin scrambling customers' email to protect it from prying eyes. The move came just hours after Google called out email providers, including Comcast, for not using encryption. Google Tuesday publicized for the first time the ...

New variant of Zeus banking trojan concealed in JPG images

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

A new variant of the nefarious Zeus banking trojan – dubbed ZeusVM – is concealed in JPG image files, according to the collaborative findings of Jerome Segura, senior security researcher with Malwarebytes, and French security researcher Xylitol. The act is known as steganography – concealing messages or images in other messages or images. In ...

Bogus Evernote alert leads to exploit kit

Monday, February 17th, 2014

Evernote users are being actively targeted with an email spam campaign that tries to trick them into following a malicious link. Sent from [email protected] and titled "Image has been sent", the email pretends to be a notification from Evernote that alerts the user to an image he or she needs to check out, ...

Java-based malware hits Windows, Mac and Linux

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

Kaspersky Lab researchers have recently analysed a piece of malware that works well on all three of the most popular computer operating systems - the only thing that it needs to compromise targeted computers is for them to run a flawed version of Java. The Trojan is written wholly in Java, and exploits ...