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Aug 18, 20201 min read
Google Chrome will try to stop you from typing into risky text boxes
"See that little “closed lock” icon in your web browser, right next to the URL? That means you’re browsing via HTTPS, encrypting your...
Aug 18, 20201 min read
Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its servers for more than a year
"The files were retained due to a now-fixed bug, says Instagram. When you delete something from Instagram you expect it to be gone for...
Aug 11, 20201 min read
The US will pay up to $10 million if you can ID a foreign election hacker
"The 2020 US presidential election is less than 100 days away, and in an effort to prevent the foreign election interference that played...
Jul 29, 20201 min read
Cosmetics firm Avon faces new cyber security incident
"Technical information relating to Avon’s web and mobile sites was inadvertently left exposed on an unsecured Microsoft Azure server....
Jul 27, 20201 min read
Black Threat Clouds Loom Over U.S. Organizations: The FBI Warns
"Thousands of organizations become victims to at least one form of cybercrime every year in the U.S, most of which come from foreign...
Jul 24, 20201 min read
#COVID19 Home Working Leads to Cybersecurity Hiring Spree
"The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major boost in cybersecurity job vacancies in the US, data from the Cybersecurity Jobs Report: Q2,...
Jul 23, 20201 min read
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Instacart Customers’ Personal Data Is Being Sold Online
"Names, credit card data, addresses, and information on transactions as recent as yesterday are being sold online. The personal...
Jul 20, 20201 min read
Russia trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine data, say UK, U.S. and Canada
"LONDON/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic...
Jul 20, 20201 min read
New phishing campaign abuses a trio of enterprise cloud services
"A new phishing campaign uses a trio of enterprise cloud services, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics, and IBM Cloud, as part of an...
Jun 17, 20201 min read
'Woefully lax': report slams CIA cybersecurity after hacking tool leak
"Many of the Central Intelligence Agency’s most sensitive hacking tools were so poorly secured that it was only when WikiLeaks published...
Jun 16, 20201 min read
Claire's: Magecart E-Commerce Hackers Stole Card Data
Magecart Gangs Targeting Larger Organizations During Lockdown, Researcher Warns "Jewelry and accessories retailer Claire's says...
Jun 15, 20201 min read
Anonymous Hackers Target U.S. Police Again: ‘No More Impunity’
"Anonymous is back in the headlines with claims that another attack on a U.S. police website is linked to the hactivist group. In the...
Jun 11, 20201 min read
Alabama City to Pay Cyber-Ransom
"An Alabama city is paying over a quarter of a million dollars to cyber-criminals to recover data encrypted in a ransomware attack....
Jun 10, 20201 min read
Nintendo admits number of hacked accounts is almost double what it originally said
Up to 300,000 Nintendo Accounts were accessed. "Nintendo has revealed that an additional 140,000 user accounts were accessed by...
Jun 8, 20201 min read
US subsidiary of ST Engineering Aerospace suffers massive data breach
"SINGAPORE: About 1.5 terabytes of sensitive data was reportedly stolen from a US subsidiary of ST Engineering Aerospace in a massive...
Jun 5, 20201 min read
Chinese and Iranian hackers targeted Biden and Trump campaigns, Google says
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State-backed hackers from China have targeted staffers working on the U.S. presidential campaign of Democrat Joe...
Jun 4, 20201 min read
Huge Cyberattacks Attempt To Silence Black Rights Movement With DDoS Attacks
"After the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests across the U.S., cyberattacks on advocacy groups spiked by an astonishing...
Jun 2, 20201 min read
Protest goes online in Minneapolis as city, police websites hit by cyberattacks
"The clash is now online in Minneapolis. Cyberattacks struck city government and law enforcement computers as mass anger over the killing...
Jun 1, 20201 min read
Judge demands Capital One release Mandiant cyberforensic report on data breach
"Attorneys suing the company will now have access to the report in preparation for a potential trial. A judge has ruled that Capital One...
May 29, 20201 min read
The Unaddressed Gap in Cybersecurity: Human Performance
"High-reliability cybersecurity operations leverage human performance as a critical layer of defense. An employee at Maersk, the world’s...
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