02 Nov

China says it applied to enter digital free trade agreement days after proposing law against cross-border data movement

China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Monday the country has officially applied for entry into the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA). According to the ministry,

Author rabih
01 Nov

Your data is wider and deeper than ever – and so are the threats

Webinar Modern cybercriminals know that choking off an organization’s production data will often be enough to force it to the negotiating table, because recovering the

Author rabih
01 Nov

Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics

The way Unicode’s UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to

Author rabih
01 Nov

Android has its head in the sand with AbstractEmu malware rooting phones

In Brief A new and dangerous form of malware for rooting Android phones has been spotted in 19 apps on Google’s Play store, as well

Author rabih
01 Nov

Data transfers between the EU and the US: Still unclear on what you’re supposed to do? Here’s an explainer

Lightning does not strike twice – except, it would seem, in the land of data privacy. Having struck down Safe Harbor – the agreement governing

Author rabih
01 Nov

Nation States Will Weaponize Social and Recruit Bad Guys with Benefits in 2022

McAfee Enterprise and FireEye recently released its 2022 Threat Predictions. In this blog, we take a deeper dive into the continuingly aggressive role Nation States

Author rabih
29 Oct

What Do Social Media Companies Know About You?

What do social media companies really know about you? It’s a fair question. And the quick answer is this: the more you use social media, the more

Author rabih
29 Oct

Shrootless: Microsoft found a way to evade Apple’s SIP macOS filesystem protection

A vulnerability in MacOS that could let a malicious person install rootkits on Apple Macs has been patched, following its discovery and disclosure by Microsoft.

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29 Oct

Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd

A British firearms sales website’s owner has called in the liquidators as his company faces data breach lawsuits – while continuing to trade from a

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29 Oct

UK data watchdog calls for end-to-end encryption across video chat apps by default

Britain’s new Information Commissioner has called for video conferencing companies to enable end-to-end encryption on their products – even as police managers and politicians condemn

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29 Oct

Feds cuff Russian said to be developer of ‘Trickbot’ ransomware

The US Department of Justice claims it’s arrested a member of a gang that deployed the Trickbot ransomware. A heavily-redacted indictment names Vladimir Dunaev as

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29 Oct

India’s Supreme Court starts probe into use of Pegasus spyware

India’s Supreme Court has taken the unusual step of commissioning a Technical Committee to investigate whether the national government used the NSO Group’s “Pegasus” spyware

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28 Oct

Yet again, Cream Finance skimmed by crooks: $130m in crypto assets stolen

Decentralized finance biz Cream Finance became further decentralized on Wednesday with the theft of $130m worth of crypto assets from its Ethereum lending protocol. Cream

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28 Oct

REvil gang member identified living luxury lifestyle in Russia, says German media

German news outlets claim to have identified a member of the infamous REvil ransomware gang – who reportedly lives the life of Riley off his

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28 Oct

Good Grief! Ransomware gang has only gone and pwned the NRA – or so it claims

Grief ransomware gang took to a dark portal website where it typically publishes the data of victims that haven’t paid up, to identify its latest

Author rabih
28 Oct

CIOs to play key role in US cybersecurity strategy

CIOs who overlook the US government’s cybersecurity orders do so at their peril — and that of their enterprise. That’s what former US Cybersecurity and

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28 Oct

If your hair isn’t already gray, 2022’s security threats will get it there, warn infosec duo

Those hoping for some respite from the world’s ongoing woes are out of luck, apparently. FireEye and McAfee, whose business models center around charging enterprises

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27 Oct

NPM packages disguised as Roblox API code caught carrying ransomware

Yet another NPM library has turned up infected with malware. Security firm Sonatype on Wednesday said it had spotted two related malicious NPM libraries that

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