13 May

‘Top three Balkans drug kingpins’ arrested after cops crack their Sky ECC chats

European police arrested three people in Belgrade described as “the biggest” drug lords in the Balkans in what cops are chalking up to another win

Author rabih
12 May

Why Microsoft just patched a patch that squashed an under-attack Outlook bug

Microsoft in March fixed an interesting security hole in Outlook that was exploited by miscreants to leak victims’ Windows credentials. This week the IT giant

Author rabih
12 May

Ex-Ubiquiti dev jailed for 6 years for stealing internal corp data, extorting bosses

Nickolas Sharp has been sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay almost $1.6 million to his now-former employer Ubiquiti – after stealing

Author rabih
12 May

Ex-Ubiquiti dev jailed for 6 years after stealing internal corp data, extorting bosses

Nickolas Sharp has been sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay almost $1.6 million to his former employer Ubiquiti – after stealing

Author rabih
12 May

Independent Lab Tests Show that McAfee Stops Malware Dead in Its Tracks

Concerned about ransomware? McAfee stops it dead in its tracks.  Newly published findings from the independent labs at AV-TEST show that McAfee’s antivirus technology performs

Author rabih
12 May

Britain’s largest private pension scheme reveals scale of Capita break-in

Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK’s largest private pension provider, says Capita has warned that details of almost half a million members were held on servers

Author rabih
12 May

How to Avoid Phishing Attacks on Your Smartphones and Computers

Ping, it’s a scammer!  The sound of an incoming email, text, or direct message has a way of getting your attention, so you take a

Author rabih
12 May

Activists gatecrash Capita’s AGM to protest GPS tracking contract

We hear Privacy International and a few other campaign groups set up camp outside Capita’s AGM in London yesterday protesting Capita’s involvement as an outsourcer

Author rabih
12 May

UK cops score legal win in EncroChat snooping op

The UK’s National Crime Agency has partially won an important legal battle in a case that challenged the warrants used to obtain messages from cyber

Author rabih
12 May

India to send official whassup to WhatsApp after massive spamstorm

India’s IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar will ask WhatsApp to explain what’s up, after the Meta-owned messaging service experienced a dramatic increase in spam calls. India

Author rabih
11 May

Let white-hat hackers stick a probe in those voting machines, say senators

US voting machines would undergo deeper examination for computer security holes under proposed bipartisan legislation. Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) this week

Author rabih
11 May

Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers

Black Hat Asia Threat groups have infected millions of Androids worldwide with malicious firmware before the devices have even been shipped from their manufacturers, according

Author rabih
11 May

ENISA leans into EU-based clouds with draft cybersecurity label

Cloud services providers that aren’t based in Europe — like the Big Three — may have to team up with a cloud that is operated and

Author rabih
11 May

How to Protect Your Family’s Privacy on Twitter: A Guide for Parents and Kids

It’s no secret that when it comes to social networks, teen preferences can change dramatically from year to year. That holds with Twitter. Even though

Author rabih
11 May

Twitter adds new DM features, and Musk claims encryption is here, starting today

Updated Twitter has rolled out some quality of life updates for direct messages on the platform, and CEO Elon Musk reckons the site is to

Author rabih
10 May

Sonatype axes 14 percent of staff, reminds them not to talk to the press

Exclusive Software supply chain management biz Sonatype has laid off 14 percent of its global workforce, according to internal documents seen by The Register. The

Author rabih
10 May

Twitter adds new DM features, and Musk says E2EE is here, starting today

Twitter has rolled out some quality of life updates for direct messages on the platform, and CEO Elon Musk reckons the site is to start

Author rabih
10 May

23-year-old Brit linked to 2020 Twitter attack and SIM-swap scheme pleads guilty

A 23-year-old British citizen has confessed to “multiple schemes” involving computer crimes, including playing a part in the July 2020 Twitter attack that saw the

Author rabih
Load moreLoadingAll items loaded