09 Dec

Oz Feds reveal distribution model behind backdoored ‘An0m’ chat app spread by crims

Australia’s Federal Police force has revealed more about how it distributed a backdoored chat app to criminals. The app, named An0m, was revealed in June

Author rabih
08 Dec

Does Your Child Have an Unhealthy Relationship with Social Media?

Have you noticed that when parents gather, it doesn’t take long before the topic of kids and social media comes up. That’s because concern over screen time is a big deal, especially in this post-pandemic season. Parents want to

Author rabih
08 Dec

Canadian charged with running ransomware attack on US state of Alaska

A Canadian man is accused of masterminding ransomware attacks that caused “damage” to systems belonging to the US state of Alaska. A federal indictment against

Author rabih
08 Dec

Not all tech disasters are ‘all hands’ events. But how do you tell which is which?

Webinar This isn’t surprising. The prospect of having all your data and applications compromised, whether due to ransomware or other cyberattacks, or any of the

Author rabih
08 Dec

Virgin Media fined £50,000 after spamming 451,000 who didn’t want marketing emails

British telco Virgin Media is facing a £50k financial penalty after spamming more than 400,000 opted-out customers urging them to sign back up to receive

Author rabih
08 Dec

What’s the right amount of trust to build into your network? Less than Zero

Paid Feature “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool,” Stephen King wrote. At least that’s what the internet claims. But “proving”

Author rabih
08 Dec

Microsoft extends Secured-core concept to servers

Microsoft has extended the Secured-core concept it applied to PCs in 2019 to servers, and to Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI. Secured-core sees Microsoft

Author rabih
07 Dec

Looking back to look ahead: Anticipating the cybersecurity landscape in 2022

From a CISO’s point of view, 2021 was not a very good year. It started with a scramble to address the SolarWinds cyberattack and is

Author rabih
07 Dec

Cryptominers aren’t just a headache – they’re a big neon sign that Bad Things are on your network

Cryptominer malware removal is a routine piece of the cybersecurity landscape these days. Yet if criminals are hijacking your compute cycles to mine cryptocurrencies, chances

Author rabih
07 Dec

BrandPost: Episode 4: Customers, Employees, Partners — How the network is evolving to Serve Them All

Working from home used to be a perk. Now it’s a way of life. The way we shop changed so quickly, so thoroughly, that many

Author rabih
07 Dec

Foreign Office IT chaos: Shocking testimony reveals poor tech support hindered Afghan evac attempts

Diplomats and soldiers were left grappling with appallingly inadequate IT and secure communications support as thousands of Afghans struggled to get help from the UK

Author rabih
07 Dec

4 trends disrupting managed infrastructure services

While corporate data centers supported by managed infrastructure services were once in the background supporting business operations, they have now moved to the forefront of

Author rabih
07 Dec

Microsoft wins court approval to take over sites run by Chinese crime gang

Microsoft has revealed its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) won court approval to take control of websites a Chinese gang was using to attack targets across

Author rabih
07 Dec

LINE Pay leaks around 133,000 users’ data to Github, of all places

Smartphone payment provider LINE Pay announced yesterday that around 133,000 users’ payment details were mistakenly published on GitHub between September and November of this year.

Author rabih
06 Dec

Spar shops across northern England shut after cyber attack hits payment processing abilities

The British arm of Dutch supermarket chain Spar has shut hundreds of shops after suffering an “online attack,” the company has confirmed to The Register.

Author rabih
06 Dec

Spar shops across northern UK shut after cyber attack hits payment processing abilities

The British arm of Dutch supermarket chain Spar has shut hundreds of shops after suffering an “online attack,” the company has confirmed to The Register.

Author rabih
06 Dec

Miscreants make off with $150m of digital assets in BitMart security breach

Cryptocurrency exchange BitMart has coughed to a large-scale security breach relating to ETH and BSC hot wallets. The company reckons that hackers made off with

Author rabih
06 Dec

Cuba ransomware gang scores almost $44m in ransom payments across 49 orgs, say Feds

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says 49 organisations, including some in government, were hit by Cuba ransomware as of early November this year.

Author rabih
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