21 Oct

What is self-learning AI and how does It tackle ransomware?

Sponsored There used to be two certainties in life – death and taxes – but thanks to online crooks around the world, there’s a third:

Author rabih
20 Oct

Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, ‘intrusion software’ – with proposed export controls

More than six years after proposing export restrictions on “intrusion software,” the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has formulated a rule

Author rabih
20 Oct

We don’t want to be critical, but humans alone aren’t enough to protect your ICS

Sponsored We know for sure that ransomware attackers and sundry dark forces want to break into critical infrastructure. Ransomware attacks on industrial environments have increased

Author rabih
20 Oct

BrandPost: Trailer: Welcome to Network Security for a Hybrid Business World

Network Security for a Hybrid Business World is a podcast series from Comcast Business and CIO, exploring the events that have put cybersecurity at the

Author rabih
20 Oct

Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser

The Chromium team has finally done it – File Transfer Protocol (FTP) support is not just deprecated, but stripped from the codebase in the latest

Author rabih
20 Oct

Be on the Lookout for a New Wave of QR Code Scams

In a world of contact-free pickup and payments, an old hacker’s trick is getting a new look—phony QR code scams.  QR codes have been around

Author rabih
20 Oct

NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to ‘Let’s talk cyber’ event

NHS Digital has scored a classic Mail All own-goal by dispatching not one, not two, not three, but four emails concerning an infosec breakfast briefing,

Author rabih
20 Oct

Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for ’embarrassing’ breach

The Centre for Computing History (CCH) in Cambridge, England, has apologised for an “embarrassing” breach in its online customer datafile, though thankfully no payment card

Author rabih
20 Oct

When it comes to ransomware, every second hurts

Sponsored For the longest time it seemed that modern endpoint detection and response (EDR) was getting on top of the worst malware, only for that

Author rabih
20 Oct

Crims target telcos’ Linux and Solaris boxes, which don’t get enough infosec love

A mysterious criminal gang is targeting telcos’ Linux and Solaris boxes, because it perceives they aren’t being watched by infosec teams that have focussed their

Author rabih
20 Oct

Acer servers cracked in India and Taiwan – including systems with customer data

Taiwanese PC maker Acer has not only admitted servers it operates in India and and Taiwan were compromised but that only those systems in India

Author rabih
20 Oct

You’ve heard of HTTPS. Now get a load of HTTPA: Web services in verified remote trusted environments?

Two Intel staffers believe web services can be made more secure by not only carrying out computations in remote trusted execution environments, or TEEs, but

Author rabih
19 Oct

BlackMatter ransomware gang will target agriculture for its next harvest – Uncle Sam

The US CISA cybersecurity agency has warned that the Darkside ransomware gang, aka BlackMatter, has been targeting American food and agriculture businesses – and urges

Author rabih
19 Oct

Scrambling to counter a ransomware attack could leave you with egg on your face

Sponsored When you read about security teams “scrambling” to respond to a ransomware attack, what do you think is the real problem? Ransomware and other

Author rabih
19 Oct

Email phishing crapcannon operators TA505 are back from the dead, researchers warn

A prolific email phishing threat actor – TA505 – is back from the dead, according to enterprise security software slinger Proofpoint. TA505, which was last

Author rabih
19 Oct

UK competition watchdog unveils principles to make a kinder antivirus business

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has unveiled compliance principles to curb locally some of the sharper auto-renewal practices of antivirus software firms. The

Author rabih
19 Oct

Social Networks Account Stealer Hidden in Android Gaming Hacking Tool

Authored by: Wenfeng Yu McAfee Mobile Research team recently discovered a new piece of malware that specifically steals Google, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and PUBG game

Author rabih
19 Oct

Reg scribe spends week being watched by government Bluetooth wristband, emerges to more surveillance

Feature My family and I recently returned to Singapore after an overseas trip that, for the first time in over a year, did not require

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