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From data privacy to industrial IoT cybersecurity concerns, Threatpost editors discuss the top stories they expect to see at this year's RSA Conference, which kicks off next week in San Francisco.

Scammers are posing as event organizers in a sophisticated fraud effort.

Almost within a year after releasing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for macOS computers, Microsoft today announced a public preview of its antivirus software for various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS and Debian. If this news hasn't gotten you excited yet... Microsoft is also planning to soon release Defender ATP anti-malware apps for smartphones and

Majitelé zařízení s Androidem a iOS se budou moci brzy chránit i pomocí antivirového softwaru od Microsoftu. Firma chce rozšířit svůj slavný Defender ATP program i na mobilní operační systémy od Applu a Googlu, oznámila na svém blogu. Obě aplikace plánuje Microsoft představit příští týden během ...

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Google oznámil další „úklid“ v jeho obchodě pro mobilní platformu Android. Z Obchodu Play bylo konkrétně odstraněno kolem 600 aplikací, které různým způsobem porušovaly pravidla pro zobrazování reklamního, resp. komerčního, obsahu. Společnost přitom při identifikaci "hříšníků" použila nový AI ...

The incident cut off access to e-mail and shared IT services across customer sites of the multinational Denmark-based facility-management firm.

Larry Tesler, the computing pioneer who insisted that user interfaces should be both comfortable *and* consistent, has died aged 74.

The US and UK governments have both accused Russia of launching a cyber attack against the Georgian government last year.

The data dump apparently included PII for Justin Bieber and Jack Dorsey.

Eight apps - mostly camera utilities and children's games - were discovered spreading a new malware strain that steals data and signs victims up for expensive premium services.

After fixing a pile of critical security flaws as part of last week’s Patch Tuesday, Adobe has raised two more needing urgent attention.

The bill now goes to the House, which has a stiffer competing bill pending that would call for a 3.5 year moratorium.

Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. The company categorizes disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of device functions," such as a full-screen ad served when attempting to make a phone call. Although

Spojené státy a Británie společně s Gruzií obvinily Moskvu z provedení kybernetického útoku, který loni v říjnu v zakavkazské zemi zablokoval tisíce webových stránek včetně portálů státních institucí. Podle britských vyšetřovatelů je téměř jisté, že za incidentem stála ruská vojenská rozvědka známá pod zkratkou GRU. USA slibují Gruzii pomoc s ochranou před hackerskými útoky.

The Google Play apps violated the tech behemoth's disruptive advertising policies.

A global facilities company with half-a-million staff has shuttered most of its IT systems after a malware attack.

A default password would let anyone access the Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem Base platform, even if it's not directly connected to the internet.

Exaggerated Lion, a newly discovered cybercrime group, uses new and unique tactics to target U.S. companies in BEC attacks.

Posted by Per Bjorke, Senior Product Manager, Ad Traffic Quality
As part of our ongoing efforts — along with help from newly developed technologies — today we’re announcing nearly 600 apps have been removed from the Google Play Store and banned from our ad monetization platforms, Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager, for violating our disruptive ads policy and disallowed interstitial policy.
Mobile ad fraud is an industry-wide challenge that can appear in many different forms with a variety of methods, and it has the potential to harm users, advertisers and publishers. At Google, we have dedicated teams focused on detecting and stopping malicious developers that attempt to defraud the mobile ecosystem. As part of these efforts we take action against those who create seemingly innocuous apps, but which actually violate our ads policies.
We define disruptive ads as ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of device functions. While they can occur in-app, one form of disruptive ads we’ve seen on the rise is something we call out-of-context ads, which is when malicious developers serve ads on a mobile device when the user is not actually active in their app.
This is an invasive maneuver that results in poor user experiences that often disrupt key device functions and this approach can lead to unintentional ad clicks that waste advertiser spend. For example, imagine being unexpectedly served a full-screen ad when you attempt to make a phone call, unlock your phone, or while using your favorite map app’s turn-by-turn navigation.
Malicious developers continue to become more savvy in deploying and masking disruptive ads, but we’ve developed new technologies of our own to protect against this behavior. We recently developed an innovative machine-learning based approach to detect when apps show out-of-context ads, which led to the enforcement we’re announcing today.
As we move forward, we will continue to invest in new technologies to detect and prevent emerging threats that can generate invalid traffic, including disruptive ads, and to find more ways to adapt and evolve our platform and ecosystem policies to ensure that users and advertisers are protected from bad behavior.