03 Dec

‘Tis the Season for Holiday Scams

This time of year, the air not only gets chillier but a bit cheerier for everyone … including online scammers. Holiday scams are a quick

Author rabih
03 Dec

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that’ll fly the unfriendly skies

In Palmdale, California on Friday, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden revealed a US Air Force warplane that had only been shown in artist renderings and

Author rabih
02 Dec

Medibank prognosis gets worse after more stolen data leaked

Australian health insurer Medibank’s prognosis following an October data breach keeps getting worse as criminals dumped another batch of stolen customer data on the dark

Author rabih
02 Dec

FBI warns about Cuba, no, not that one — the ransomware gang

The US government has issued an alert about Cuba; not the state but a ransomware gang that’s taking millions in purloined profits. The Cuba gang

Author rabih
02 Dec

Domain aging gang CashRewindo picks vintage sites to push malvertising

A sophisticated and very patient threat group behind a global malvertising scheme is using so-called aged domains to skirt past cybersecurity tools and catch victims

Author rabih
02 Dec

How To Help Your Family Protect Their Online Data

Whether you’re standing around the water cooler at work, waiting for your kids at the school gate or sitting around the dinner table, data breaches

Author rabih
02 Dec

Mozilla, Microsoft drop TrustCor as root certificate authority

Mozilla and Microsoft have taken action against a certificate authority accused of having close ties to a US military contractor that allegedly paid software developers

Author rabih
02 Dec

Two signs in the comms cabinet said ‘Do not unplug’. Guess what happened

Welcome once more to On-Call, The Register‘s weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of IT pros being asked to fix things that should never have

Author rabih
01 Dec

Nvidia patches 29 GPU driver bugs that could lead to code execution, device takeover

Nvidia fixed more than two dozen security flaws in its GPU display driver, the most severe of which could allow an unprivileged user to modify

Author rabih
01 Dec

Google warns of commercial Heliconia spyware hitting Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Defender

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said on Wednesday that its researchers discovered commercial spyware called Heliconia that’s designed to exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome and Firefox

Author rabih
01 Dec

Google warns about commercial Heliconia spyware hitting Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Defender

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said on Wednesday that its researchers discovered commercial spyware called Heliconia that’s designed to exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome and Firefox

Author rabih
01 Dec

Google warns about commercial Heliconia spyware hitting Chrome, Firefox and and Microsoft Defender

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said on Wednesday that its researchers discovered commercial spyware called Heliconia that’s designed to exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome and Firefox

Author rabih
01 Dec

Intruders gain access to user data in LastPass incident

Intruders broke into a third-party cloud storage service LastPass shares with affiliate company GoTo and gained access to “certain elements” of customers’ information, the pair

Author rabih
01 Dec

Unwrapping Some of the Holiday Season’s Biggest Scams

Even with the holidays in full swing, scammers won’t let up. In fact, it’s high time for some of their nastiest cons as people travel,

Author rabih
01 Dec

Twenty years on, command-line virus scanner ClamAV puts out version 1

The ClamAV command-line virus scanner used on many Linux boxes has attained an important-looking milestone release: version 1.0.0. It’s not really the first finished version,

Author rabih
01 Dec

Keeping customers happy means the big IAM just got bigger

Sponsored Feature It’s easy to forget the human factor when it comes to cybersecurity. Completely locking down your network will certainly make you secure, just

Author rabih
01 Dec

Almost 300 predatory loan apps found in Google and Apple stores

Almost 300 apps, downloaded by around 15 million users, have been pulled from the Google Play and Apple App stores over claims they promised quick

Author rabih
30 Nov

Sirius XM flaw unlocks so-called smart cars thanks to code flaw

Sirius XM’s Connected Vehicle Services has fixed an authorization flaw that would have allowed an attacker to remotely unlock doors and start engines on connected

Author rabih
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