For a number of years, criminals have been able to steal credit card details from unaware online shoppers without attracting too…
Month: December 2019
Explained: edge computing
Edge computing may seem like a foreign and future-facing term. Yet its applications are widespread and diverse, with the ability to…
A week in security (December 23 – 29)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we continued our retrospective coverage with a look at how lawmakers in the United States treated…
Online privacy in 2019: a legislative review
For decades, the United States treated data privacy like an aging home, patching individual leaks and drafts only when a new…
A week in security (December 16 – 22)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we signalled that Mac threat detections have been on the rise in 2019, discussed how a…
A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s
This post was co-authored by Wendy Zamora and Chris Boyd. All opinions expressed belong to your mom. Back in the days…
Spelevo exploit kit debuts new social engineering trick
2019 has been a busy year for exploit kits, despite the fact that they haven’t been considered a potent threat vector…
New Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA) would empower American users
Despite the already dizzying number of comprehensive data privacy proposals before the US Senate—nearly 10 have been introduced since mid-2018—yet another…
Mac threat detections on the rise in 2019
Conventional wisdom has been that, although not invulnerable to cyberthreats (as some old Apple ads would have you believe), Macs are…
A week in security (December 9 – 15)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we cautioned readers against purchasing potentially privacy-invasive, cyber-insecure smart doorbells, warned about a new credit card…