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304% Return on Investment with SilverSky Network Security Solutions In November 2012, SilverSky commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential Return On Investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by engaging SilverSky network security services, including its managed security services, network protection suite, and professional services. Click here to download [Sponsored] Latest News Jan 20, 2014 More details about alleged 17-year-old Russian BlackPOS Malware Author released Security experts at IntelCrawler provided a new interesting update on BlackPOS malware author, that he forgot to delete his Social networking profile even after the last exposure from the investigators. As we have reported a few days before that the Intelligence firm IntelCrawler has identified a 17 year old teenager, known as "Ree [4]" in the underground market, as the author of the BlackPOS/ ... Read more... U.S. based Cloud Hosting providers contribute 44% of Malware distribution U.S. has the top Security Agencies like NSA, FBI to tackle cyber crime and terrorism with their high profile surveillance technologies, but even after that U.S is proudly hosting 44% of the entire cloud based malware distribution. With the enhancement in Internet technology, Cloud computing has shown the possibility of existence and now has become an essential gradient for any Internet Identity. ... Read more... 20 Million Credit Cards stolen in South Korea; 40% Population affected by the Data Leak Since all threats to data security and privacy often come from outside, but internal threats are comparatively more dangerous and a difficult new dimension to the data loss prevention challenge i.e. Data Breach. The "Insider threats" have the potential to cause greater financial losses than attacks that originate outside the company. This is what happened recently with three credit card firms in ... Read more... U.S. Judge ordered the largest Ever Forfeiture of 29,655 Bitcoins seized from Silk Road In last October, the Feds told they would probably just liquidate the bitcoins seized from the online black market Silk Road, once they were legally free to do so. Finally the United States District Judge J. Paul Oetken signed off on the forfeiture order for the Bitcoins, clearing the government to sell the assets. Last September, the FBI had seized 29,655 Bitcoins from the online black market ... Read more... Adware Companies buying popular Chrome extensions to inject Ads and Malware Browser extensions are extra features and functionality that you can easily add to Google Chrome, Firefox and other popular Browsers, but they can be used to serve malicious adware, which automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for its author.  Hackers are now taking their business rather more seriously than we thought. Even a single instance of malicious adware on your ... Read more... Best Practices and Applications of TLS/SSL Read the white paper, “Best Practices and Applications of TLS/SSL”, to learn how TLS works, best practices for its use and the various applications in which it can secure business computing. Click here to download [Sponsored] This email was sent to paradic3z.auto@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. If you would like to manage your newsletter preferences or if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please click here. The Hacker News, Global Contact: info@thehackernews.com