26 Feb

10 things to avoid posting on social media – and why

Social Media Do you often take to social media to broadcast details from your life? Here’s why this habit may put your privacy and security

Author rabih
26 Feb

Introducing Social Privacy Manager

If you’re concerned about your privacy on social media, you have plenty of company. Here’s something else you have — a great way to lock

Author rabih
25 Feb

Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else

Systems Approach One refrain you often hear is that security must be built in from the ground floor; that retrofitting security to an existing system

Author rabih
23 Feb

LockBit extorted billions of dollars from victims, fresh leaks suggest

Authorities digging into LockBit’s finances believe the group may have generated more than $1 billion in ransom fees over its four-year lifespan. That’s according to

Author rabih
23 Feb

U-Haul tells 67K customers that cyber-crooks drove away with their personal info

U-Haul is alerting tens of thousands of folks that miscreants used stolen credentials to break into one of its systems and access customer records that

Author rabih
23 Feb

McAfee Joins Tech Accord to Combat Use of AI in 2024 Elections

This year marks the world’s biggest election year yet. An estimated four billion voters will head to the polls across more than 60 national elections

Author rabih
23 Feb

LockBit identity reveal a bigger letdown than Game of Thrones Season 8

The grand finale of the week of LockBit leaks was slated to expose the real identity of LockBitSupp – the alias of the gang’s public

Author rabih
23 Feb

Tips on meeting complex cloud security challenges

Webinar Dealing with the double trouble of relentless cyber threats and regular technology refresh cycles can stretch already overworked security practitioners. And orchestrating the transition

Author rabih
23 Feb

PSYOP campaigns targeting Ukraine – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video Coming in two waves, the campaign sought to demoralize Ukrainians and Ukrainian speakers abroad with disinformation messages about war-related subjects 23 Feb 2024 This

Author rabih
23 Feb

X protests forced suspension of accounts on orders of India’s government

The global government affairs team at X (née Twitter) has suspended some accounts and posts in India after receiving executive orders to do so from

Author rabih
23 Feb

Avast shells out $17M to shoo away claims it peddled people’s personal data

Avast has agreed to cough up $16.5 million after the FTC accused the antivirus vendor of selling customer information to third parties. The US regulator

Author rabih
22 Feb

Cyberattack downs pharmacies across America

IT provider Change Healthcare has confirmed it shut down some of its systems following a cyberattack, disrupting prescription orders and other services at pharmacies across

Author rabih
22 Feb

Authorities dismantled LockBit before it could unleash revamped variant

Law enforcement’s disruption of the LockBit ransomware crew comes as the criminal group was working on bringing a brand-new variant to market, research reveals. As

Author rabih
22 Feb

Ukrainian police arrest father and son in suspected LockBit affiliate double act

Today’s edition of the week-long LockBit leaks reveals a father-son duo was apprehended in Ukraine as part of the series of takedown-related arrests this week.

Author rabih
22 Feb

Everything you need to know about IP grabbers

Digital Security You would never give your personal ID to random strangers, right? So why provide the ID of your computer? Unsuspecting users beware, IP

Author rabih
22 Feb

Giant leak reveals Chinese infosec vendor I-Soon is one of Beijing’s cyber-attackers for hire

A cache of stolen document posted to GitHub appears to reveal how a Chinese infosec vendor named I-Soon offers rent-a-hacker services for Beijing. The trove

Author rabih
21 Feb

Biden asks Coast Guard to create an infosec port in a stormy sea of cyber threats

President Biden has empowered the US Coast Guard (USCG) to get a tighter grip on cybersecurity at American ports – including authorizing yet another incident

Author rabih
21 Feb

Apple promises to protect iMessage chats from quantum computers

Apple says it’s going to upgrade the cryptographic protocol used by iMessage to hopefully prevent the decryption of conversations by quantum computers, should those machines

Author rabih
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