Over 90% of data transactions on IoT devices are unencrypted
A report from Zscaler reveals some troubling facts about the risks posed by network-connected IoT devices.
Lucian Constantin | 23 May | Read more
A report from Zscaler reveals some troubling facts about the risks posed by network-connected IoT devices.
Lucian Constantin | 23 May | Read more
Hackers hit Google Play Store to spread functioning Telegram-based chat apps with spyware.
Australian consumers are still pretty poor at securing their information but those same consumers are unforgiving of businesses that do the same, a new study suggests. Similarly, breaches of online megalith Yahoo had caused its acquisition by Verizon to be pushed back, reports suggested.
David Braue | 30 Jan | Read more
With SSL, mobiles and cloud applications complicating traditional defences, shunting all traffic to the cloud has helped one CISO sleep at night
David Braue | 15 Sep | Read more
Microsoft toolset for monitoring corporate data in third-party cloud apps is now available for all customers.
Wordpress, the Internet's favorite content management system, is a common target for criminals who redirect innocent users to malware download sites.
Maria Korolov | 12 May | Read more
In the economy of mobile apps, you are less a consumer of software than consumed by it. That's according to security firm Zscaler that has analysed the surprisingly intrusive permissions demanded by many popular Google App store apps before they will allow a download to start.
John E Dunn | 16 Jul | Read more
Cloud security firm Zscaler is taking on the vendors selling appliances as the solution to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) with a new cloud-based service that claims it can stop multi-pronged attacks in real time for all types of device under its wing.
John E Dunn | 18 Sep | Read more
Adware is now so deeply buried in Google's Play store that one in five of the most popular apps are rated a privacy risk by mobile security programs, an analysis by Zscaler has found.
John E Dunn | 14 Aug | Read more
One or more antivirus vendors flagged 22% of 8,000 popular apps as having issues
Antone Gonsalves | 09 Aug | Read more
Malware writers are ramping up their use of commercial file hosting sites and cloud services to distribute malware programs, security researchers said at this week's Black Hat conference here.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 02 Aug | Read more
Zscaler has added mobile security to its arsenal of cloud-based security services which the firm is pitching as a flexible way to fix the risk of employee-owned devices bypassing conventional filtering systems.
John E Dunn | 08 Jun | Read more
Cloud-based security services provider Zscaler has released an implementation for Internet Explorer of the HTTPS Everywhere browser security extension.
Lucian Constantin | 19 Dec | Read more
A security company has developed a free Firefox add-on that warns when someone on the same network is using Firesheep, a tool that has raised alarm over how it simplifies an attack against a long-known weakness in Internet security.
Jeremy Kirk | 08 Nov | Read more