28 Jun

Tencent admits to poisoned QR code attack on QQ chat platform

Chinese web giant Tencent has admitted to a significant account hijack attack on its QQ.com messaging and social media platform. In a post to rival

Author rabih
28 Jun

Carnival Cruises torpedoed by US states, agrees to pay $6m after wave of cyberattacks

Carnival Cruise Lines will cough up more than $6 million to end two separate lawsuits filed by 46 states in the US after sensitive, personal

Author rabih
28 Jun

Carnival Cruises torpedoed by US states, agrees to pay $6m after waves of cyberattacks

Carnival Cruise Lines will cough up more than $6 million to end two separate lawsuits filed by 46 states in the US after sensitive, personal

Author rabih
28 Jun

Carnival Cruises torpedoed by US states, agrees to pay $6m after waves of cyber attacks

Carnival Cruise Lines will cough up more than $6 million to end two separate lawsuits filed by 46 states in the US after sensitive personal

Author rabih
28 Jun

India extends deadline for compliance with infosec logging rules by 90 days

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the local Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) have extended the deadline for compliance with the Cyber

Author rabih
27 Jun

OpenSSL 3.0.5 awaits release to fix potential worse-than-Heartbleed flaw

The latest version of OpenSSL v3, a widely used open-source library for secure networking using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, contains a memory corruption

Author rabih
27 Jun

LGBTQ+ folks warned of dating app extortion scams

The FTC is warning members of the LGBTQ+ community about online extortion via dating apps such as Grindr and Feeld. According to the American watchdog,

Author rabih
27 Jun

Contractor loses entire Japanese city’s personal data in USB fail

In brief A Japanese contractor working in the city of Amagasaki, near Osaka, reportedly mislaid a USB drive containing personal data on the metropolis’s 460,000

Author rabih
27 Jun

5 ways cybercriminals steal credit card details

Here are some of the most common ways hackers can get hold of other people’s credit card data – and how you can keep yours safe

Author rabih
27 Jun

Beijing probes security at academic journal database

China’s internet regulator has launched an investigation into the security regime protecting academic journal database China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), citing national security concerns. In

Author rabih
27 Jun

Singapore promises ‘brutal and unrelentingly hard’ action on dodgy crypto players

In the same week that it welcomed the launch of a local center of excellence focused on crypto-inspired central bank digital currencies, Singapore’s Monetary Authority

Author rabih
25 Jun

We’re now truly in the era of ransomware as pure extortion without the encryption

Feature US and European cops, prosecutors, and NGOs recently convened a two-day workshop in the Hague to discuss how to respond to the growing scourge

Author rabih
24 Jun

More than $100m in cryptocurrency stolen from blockchain biz

Blockchain venture Harmony offers bridge services for transferring crypto coins across different blockchains, but something has gone badly wrong. The Horizon Ethereum Bridge, one of

Author rabih
24 Jun

Google: How we tackled this iPhone, Android spyware

Spyware developed by Italian firm RCS Labs was used to target cellphones in Italy and Kazakhstan — in some cases with an assist from the

Author rabih
24 Jun

Does an iPhone Need Antivirus Software?

If you’re one of the countless Apple iPhone owners out there, there’s a good chance that one of the reasons you love your smartphone is

Author rabih
24 Jun

Beijing-backed attackers use ransomware as a decoy while they conduct espionage

A state-sponsored Chinese threat actor has used ransomware as a distraction to help it conduct electronic espionage, according to security software vendor Secureworks. The China-backed

Author rabih
24 Jun

NSO claims ‘more than 5’ EU states use Pegasus spyware

NSO Group told European lawmakers this week that “under 50” customers use its notorious Pegasus spyware, though these customers include “more than five” European Union member

Author rabih
23 Jun

$6b mega contract electronics vendor Sanmina jumps into zero trust

Matt Ramberg is the vice president of information security at Sanmina, a sprawling electronics manufacturer with close to 60 facilities in 20 countries on six

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