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

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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

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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

Author rabih
19 Oct

Is There Really Such a Thing as a Low-Paid Ransomware Operator?

Introduction Going by recent headlines you could be forgiven for thinking all ransomware operators are raking in millions of ill-gotten dollars each year from their

Author rabih
19 Oct

Japanese messaging giant Line admits it mishandled user data, promises to do better

Line, the Japan-based messaging and payments app with millions of users around Southeast Asia, has conceded that its data protection regimes had multiple shortcomings, and

Author rabih
18 Oct

Microsoft called out as big malware hoster – thanks to OneDrive and Office 365 abuse

Microsoft has been branded as “the world’s best malware hoster for about a decade,” thanks to abuse of the Office 365 and Live platform, as

Author rabih
18 Oct

Unravel the XDR Noise and Recognize a Proactive Approach

Cybersecurity professionals know this drill well all too well. Making sense of lots of information and noise to access what really matters. XDR (Extended Detection

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