Day: July 7, 2016

Review: Video: Alienware Aurora R5

Alienware Aurora R5 review Update: We’ve added a video showing off the Alienware Aurora R5’s folding interior in action. Alienware has a long list of memorable gaming PCs in its 20-year history, and perhaps one of the most notable has been its mid-size tower, the Aurora. We’ve been waiting patiently for a follow up to

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Latest Intelligence for June 2016

Our latest intelligence reveals nearly a 30 percentage point drop in web attacks using Angler and a 20 percentage point increase in Manual Sharing social media scams. Twitter Card Style:  summary The Latest Intelligence page has been refreshed through June 2016, providing the most up-to-date analysis of cybersecurity threats, trends, and insights concerning malware, spam,

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Antivirus merger: Avast offers $1.3 billion for AVG

Antivirus vendor Avast Software has agreed to buy rival AVG Technologies for $1.3 billion in cash. The deal will give Avast access to over 400 million “endpoints,” or devices running its and AVG’s software, 160 million of them phones or tablets, the company said Tuesday. [ Make threat intelligence meaningful: A 4-point plan. | Discover

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Security Sessions: The state of cloud security

In this episode of Security Sessions, CSO Editor-in-Chief Joan Goodchild chats with Jim Reavis, CEO of the Cloud Security Alliance, about whether enterprises have finally trusted cloud services for their corporate data, and how the Internet of Things could affect cloud security in the future. Source: Security

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Google fixes over 100 flaws in Android, many in chipset drivers

Google released a new batch of Android patches on Wednesday, fixing over 100 flaws in Android’s own components and in chipset-specific drivers from different manufacturers. Android’s mediaserver component, which handles the processing of video and audio streams and has been a source of many vulnerabilities in the past, is at the forefront of this security

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What I learned playing prey to Windows scammers

“I am calling you from Windows.” So goes the opening line of the well-known phone scam, where a person calls purporting to be a help desk technician reaching out to resolve your computer problems. These Windows scammers feed off people’s concerns about data breaches and identity theft to trick them into installing malware onto their

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