Author: Asad Yaseen

Balancing Digital: Helping Your Family Manage Ongoing Stress Editor’s Note: This is part I in a series on helping families protect their mental and digital health in times of chronic stress. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or treatment. The data continues to confirm that living with the stress of a prolonged pandemic is taking a toll on the mental health of both the young and old. Add increased…

Google revealed that Gmail users from the United States are the most targeted by email-based phishing and malware. A joint five-month study conducted by Google with Stanford University researchers analyzed over 1.2 billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users to determine what are factors influence the risk of attack. Experts discovered that malicious campaigns are typically short-lived and indiscriminately target users worldwide. “However, by modeling the distribution of targeted users, we find that…

Fraudulent product reviews for goods sold on Amazon’s Marketplace are available to purchase by the bundle, according to an investigation by consumer group Which? The group identified 10 different websites including AMZTigers from which Amazon sellers could purchase positive reviews at prices starting from £5 each. In return for their services, reviewers accept free products, discounted products, or payment.  Sellers could also purchase “packages” of fake reviews ranging in price from £15 for one package up to…

What is your organization’s readiness for the emerging eXtended Detection Response (XDR) technology? McAfee just released the first iteration of this technology, MVISION XDR. As XDR capabilities become available, organizations need to think through how to embrace the new security operations technology destined to empower detection and response capabilities. XDR is a journey for people and organizations.  The cool thing about McAfee’s offering is the XDR capabilities is built on the McAfee platform of MVISION EDR, MVISION Insights and is extended to other McAfee products and…

Analysts from Trend Micro rate DDoS attacks and electronic jamming as some of the highest cybersecurity risks for connected cars. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto A new report from Trend Micro analyzes a day in the travels of a connected car to identify the cyberattacks most likely to succeed. “Cybersecurity for Connected Cars: Exploring Risks in 5G, Cloud and Other Connected Technologies” puts the overall risk at medium. Among the millions of endpoints in a connected car’s…

Spyware activity spiked in 2020, and the malware-as-a-service business model got more sophisticated. Image: kaptnali, Getty Images/iStockphoto The 2021 State of Malware Report from Malwarebytes found that cybercriminals are learning from the past to build smarter software and starting to modularize their products to make distribution easier. Those are some of the findings in the Malwarebytes report released today. The report examined what malware was most active during 2020, as well as trends in attacks…