17 Jun

Password recovery from beyond the grave

On Call Every disaster recovery plan needs to contain the “hit by a bus” scenario. But have you ever retrieved a password from beyond the

Author rabih
17 Jun

Interpol anti-fraud operation busts call centers behind business email scams

Law enforcement agencies around the world have arrested about 2,000 people and seized $50 million in a sweeping operation crackdown of social engineering and other

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16 Jun

RSAC branded a ‘super spreader event’ as attendees share COVID-19 test results

RSA Conference Quick show of hands: who came home from this year’s RSA Conference without COVID-19? The cybersecurity event’s organizers say they’re not keeping count

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16 Jun

How Emotet is changing tactics in response to Microsoft’s tightening of Office macro security

Emotet malware is back with ferocious vigor, according to ESET telemetry in the first four months of 2022. Will it survive the ever-tightening controls on

Author rabih
16 Jun

Elasticsearch server with no password or encryption leaks a million records

Researchers at security product recommendation service Safety Detectives claim they’ve found almost a million customer records wide open on an Elasticsearch server run by Malaysian

Author rabih
15 Jun

Heineken says there’s no free beer, warns of phishing scam

There’s no such thing as free beer for Father’s Day — at least not from Heineken. The brewing giant confirmed that a contest circulating on WhatsApp,

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15 Jun

Microsoft continues cyber security spending spree with Miburo buy

Microsoft has opened its wallet once more to pick up New York-based cyber-threat analyst Miburo. Founded by Clint Watts in 2011, Miburo is all about

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15 Jun

Malaysia-linked DragonForce hacktivists attack Indian targets

A Malaysia-linked hacktivist group has attacked targets in India, seemingly in reprisal for a representative of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) making remarks felt

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15 Jun

Unpatched Exchange server, stolen RDP logins… How miscreants get BlackCat ransomware on your network

Two of the more prolific cybercriminal groups, which in the past have deployed such high-profile ransomware families as Conti, Ryuk, REvil and Hive, have started

Author rabih
15 Jun

Microsoft fixes under-attack Windows zero-day Follina

Patch Tuesday Microsoft claims to have finally fixed the Follina zero-day flaw in Windows as part of its June Patch Tuesday batch, which included security

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15 Jun

McAfee’s Digital Wellness Delivers Online Protection As An Employee Benefit

The topic most top of mind today for HR professionals is keeping and acquiring great talent.  One of the most important elements of doing both

Author rabih
15 Jun

Former US state agency CIO, IT exec plead guilty to bribery and extortion scheme

A former Maryland Cabinet-level official and a former IT executive have pleaded guilty to involvement in a bribery and extortion scheme related to technology contracts

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14 Jun

Cloudflare says it thwarted record-breaking HTTPS DDoS flood

Cloudflare said it this month staved off another record-breaking HTTPS-based distributed denial-of-service attack, this one significantly larger than the previous largest DDoS attack that occurred

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14 Jun

Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits

A 33-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that paying customers used to launch more than 200,000 distributed

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14 Jun

Azure issues not adequately fixed for months, complain bug hunters

Two security vendors – Orca Security and Tenable – have accused Microsoft of unnecessarily putting customers’ data and cloud environments at risk by taking far

Author rabih
14 Jun

UK health privacy watchdog still in talks over who is accessing country’s COVID data store

More than two years after England launched a COVID data store, keeping details of National Health Service (NHS) patients, the country’s National Data Guardian (NDG)

Author rabih
14 Jun

Inside the RSAC expo: Buzzword bingo and the bear in the room

RSA Conference Your humble vulture never liked conference expos – even before finding myself on the show floor during a global pandemic. Expo halls are

Author rabih
14 Jun

Chinese-sponsored gang Gallium upgrades to sneaky PingPull RAT

The Gallium group, believed to be a Chinese state-sponsored team, is going on the warpath with an upgraded remote access trojan (RAT) that threat hunters

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