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Stay up-to-date with the latest news and events in the cybersecurity industry. Here, you'll find a wide range of articles, updates, and event listings covering topics such as data breaches, emerging threats, and new security technologies.

26 June 2019

Positive Technologies: financial institutions' websites most frequently attacked

The majority of all web attacks in 2018 targeted sites of financial institutions, transportation companies, hospitality and entertainment companies.

24 June 2019

Positive Technologies launches PT Application Inspector Enterprise to create secure web applications

New solution establishes secure development and mass application code acceptance in companies of any scale.

19 June 2019

Positive Technologies research finds an attacker rarely needs physical access to a victim's smartphone to steal data

Expert testing of iOS and Android mobile applications shows that in most cases, insecure data storage is the most common security flaw in mobile apps.

13 June 2019

Positive Technologies cybersecurity report shows сryptolocker infection rate growing to 24 percent of all attacks

Positive Technologies’ researchers have summarized cybersecurity trends of first quarter 2019 in a new report entitled CyberThreatscape Q1. The main trends include a significant rise of infection via cryptolockers; an increase in the number of unique threats; a large number of new hybrid Trojans; an increase in the number of attacks aiming at data theft; and a decrease in cryptojacking.

30 May 2019

Positive Technologies helps to fix high-risk vulnerabilities in B&R APROL industrial process automation systems

Experts from Positive Technologies ICS Security and Application Analysis departments found multiple vulnerabilities in 12 components of APROL industrial process automation systems made by B&R Automation (Austria). This system is used in the oil and gas industry, energy, mechanical engineering, and other industries.

11 April 2019

Positive Technologies finds number of new vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems grew by 30 percent in a year

In the U.S., the number of Internet-accessible ICS components increased by 49 percent, allowing attackers to easily identify vulnerable industrial control systems.

4 April 2019

Positive Technologies: attackers can access personal data and other sensitive information in every online bank

In its recent report ‘Vulnerabilities in online banking applications’, Positive Technologies experts assessed the security levels of online banks in 2018, and found that 54 percent allowed attackers to steal money. In addition to this, all online banks carry the risk of unauthorized access to personal data and other sensitive information.

28 March 2019

Positive Technologies found an undocumented technology in Intel microchips

On March 28, Positive Technologies experts Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov spoke at the Black Hat conference in Singapore about a new technology in Intel chipsets and processors. The technology allows reading data from the memory and intercepting the peripherals' signals. Although Intel VISA is disabled by default on commercial systems, the experts found several ways to activate the technology.

22 March 2019

Windows 10 patched to fix two critical vulnerabilities discovered by Positive Technologies expert

Issues potentially affected all PCs and other devices running on Windows 10.

20 March 2019

High-risk vulnerability in Android devices discovered by Positive Technologies

<p>Longstanding flaw allows attackers to access sensitive information on all Android devices including browser history, chat messages, and bank applications. The bug was fixed in Google Chrome 72, users need to check if they've got a fixed version or not.</p>

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