08 Dec

Weep for the cybercriminals who fell for online scams and lost $2.5m last year

Scammers have scammed their fellow cybercriminals out of more than $2.5 million on three dark web forums alone over the last 12 months, according to

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08 Dec

North Korea hits new low by using Seoul Halloween tragedy to exploit Internet Explorer zero-day

North Korea has hit a new low, using the death of over 150 people to exploit a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer. Google’s Threat Analysis

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08 Dec

States label TikTok ‘a malicious and menacing threat’

Two more US states have launched aggressive action against made-in-China social media app TikTok. Texas on Wednesday banned the app from government devices, with governor

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08 Dec

Egad, did Apple do something right? End-to-end encryption for (most) iCloud services

Apple says it will provide end-to-end encryption for most iCloud services, having abandoned its previously announced – and then quietly shelved – plan to check

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07 Dec

San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots

San Francisco legislators this week changed course on their killer robot policy, banning the police from using remote-control bots fitted with explosives. For now. On

Author rabih
07 Dec

Taiwan bans state-owned devices from running Chinese platform TikTok

Public sector bans of Chinese platform TikTok on the grounds of national security have arisen in both Taiwan and additional US states following last week’s

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07 Dec

Microsoft: (Cyber) winter is coming as DDoS attack disrupts Russian bank

Microsoft has warned Europe to be on alert for cyber attacks from Russia this winter, just as a series of attacks hit Russian organizations –

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07 Dec

Amnesty International Canada claims attack by China-backed forces

The Canadian branch of Amnesty International was the target of an attack it has pinned on a Chinese state-sponsored actor. The human rights organization said

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07 Dec

South Pacific vacations may be wrecked by ransomware

New Zealand’s Privacy Commission has signalled it may open an investigation into local managed services provider Mercury IT, which serves many government agencies and businesses

Author rabih
06 Dec

Rackspace confirms ransomware attack behind days-long email meltdown

Updated Rackspace has admitted a ransomware infection was to blame for the days-long email outage that disrupted services for customers.  The security snafu took down

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06 Dec

Rackspace confirms ransomware attack behind days-long email outage

Rackspace has admitted a ransomware infection was to blame for the days-long email outage that disrupted services for customers.  The security snafu took down some

Author rabih
06 Dec

Want to detect Cobalt Strike on the network? Look to process memory

Enterprise security pros can detect malware samples in environments that incorporate the highly evasive Cobalt Strike attack code by analyzing artifacts in process memory, according

Author rabih
06 Dec

McAfee 2023 Threat Predictions: Evolution and Exploitation

As 2022 draws to a close, the Threat Research Team at McAfee Labs takes a look forward—offering their predictions for 2023 and how its threat

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06 Dec

KmsdBot botnet is down after operator sends typo in command

Somewhere out there, a botnet operator is kicking themselves and probably hoping no one noticed the typo they transmitted in a command that crashed their

Author rabih
06 Dec

How to secure application identities at developmental speed

Webinar There you are, standing in front of two peaks, a security roadmap in your back pocket to guide you up the sheer track of

Author rabih
06 Dec

TSA to expand facial recognition across America

America’s Transport Security Administration, better known as the TSA, has been testing facial recognition software to automatically screen passengers flying across the country in 16

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06 Dec

US Transportation Security Agency expanding facial recognition system for all US airports

The US Transport Security Administration has been testing facial recognition software to automatically screen passengers flying across the country in 16 airports, and is looking

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06 Dec

Four suspects cuffed, face extradition over tax refund scam plot

Four men suspected of plotting to commit wire fraud and identity theft have been arrested and now face extradition to America. It is alleged they

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