18 Jan

McAfee Wins Product of the Year for Best Online Protection

You can feel even more confident that you’ll enjoy life online with us at your side. AV-Comparatives has awarded McAfee as its 2021 Product of

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18 Jan

International police shut down 15 server infrastructures as part of VPNLab.net’s takedown

Some 15 server infrastructures used by crims to prepare ransomware attacks were seized by cops yesterday as part of an international sting to take down

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18 Jan

More contractor pain: Parasol’s sister firms, SJD Accountancy and Nixon Williams, confirm cyberattack

SJD Accountancy and Nixon Williams – both contractor-focused beancounting firms owned by the same corporate parent as cyber-attack-struck UK umbrella company Parasol – have been

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18 Jan

Singapore monetary authority threatens action on bank over widespread phishing scam

The Monetary Authority of Singapore says it is considering supervisory action against Southeast Asia’s second largest bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), which was criticised for

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18 Jan

Why global DDoS protection is essential for Anycast networks

Paid Feature In October 2021, in an incident lasting more than six hours, Facebook disappeared from the Internet. This wasn’t a temporary .com outage on

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18 Jan

Microsoft patches the patch that broke VPNs, Hyper-V, and left servers in boot loops

Microsoft has patched the patch that broke chunks of Windows and emitted fixes for a Patch Tuesday cock-up that left servers rebooting and VPNs disconnected.

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17 Jan

Bug in WebKit’s IndexedDB implementation makes Safari 15 leak Google account info… and more

An improperly implemented API that stores data on browsers has caused a vulnerability in Safari 15 that leaks user internet activity and personal identifiers. The

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17 Jan

Ukraine blames Belarus for PC-wiping ‘ransomware’ that has no recovery method and nukes target boxen

After last week’s website defacements, Ukraine is now being targeted by boot record-wiping malware that looks like ransomware but with one crucial difference: there’s no

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17 Jan

Umbrella company Parasol Group confirms cyber attack as ‘root cause’ of prolonged network outage

Umbrella company Parasol Group has confirmed why it shut down part of its IT last week: it found unauthorised activity from an intruder. As reported

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16 Jan

North Korea pulled in $400m in cryptocurrency heists last year – report

In brief Thieves operating for the North Korean government made off with almost $400m in digicash last year in a concerted attack to steal and

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14 Jan

Russia starts playing by the rules: FSB busts 14 REvil ransomware suspects

Russia’s internal security agency said today it had dismantled the REvil ransomware gang’s networks and raided its operators’ homes following arrests yesterday in Ukraine. In

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14 Jan

Today’s Trends: Consumers Prioritize Protection Over Convenience

People have made it clear. They’re feeling more exposed to online threats and want stronger protection. Our 2022 Trends Study puts figures to these feelings,

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14 Jan

Multi-day IT systems outage whacks umbrella biz Parasol Group amid fears of a cyber attack

Contractors employed via umbrella company Parasol Group are increasingly nervous about a multi-day outage of some IT systems used to process payroll, with several suspecting

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14 Jan

Ukraine shrugs off mass govt website defacement as world turns to stare at Russia

A “massive” cyber attack on Ukraine caught the world’s eye this morning as the country’s foreign ministry said its website, among others, had been taken

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14 Jan

Visibility, immutability, security … a revolutionary approach to fighting off ransomware

Webinar It’s a truism that your data is your organisation’s most precious asset. Here’s another. Once data is backed up, many organisations tend to forget

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13 Jan

Federal Communications Commission proposed stricter rules on how telco carriers should report data breaches

The US Federal Communications Commission is considering imposing stricter rules requiring telecommunications carriers to report data breaches to customers and law enforcement more quickly. Chairwoman

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13 Jan

Orca Security tells AWS fail tale with a happy ending

Two serious security vulnerabilities were recently found in AWS services, but because they were responsibly reported and the cloud biz responded quickly, no harm appears

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13 Jan

Continuous security and compliance for hybrid cloud, the Red Hat way

Paid feature Assessing what can go wrong in a hybrid cloud environment can be daunting. Applications can be poorly coded, security vulnerabilities may be present

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