18 Oct

Chinese tech minister says he’s ‘dealt with’ 73,000 sites that breached the law

A 36-year-old man from Portage, Michigan, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly renting thousands of textbooks from Amazon and selling them rather than returning them.

Author rabih
18 Oct

Chinese tech minister says he’s ‘dealt with’ 73,000 websites that breached the law

A 36-year-old man from Portage, Michigan, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly renting thousands of textbooks from Amazon and selling them rather than returning them.

Author rabih
18 Oct

Whatever sort of disaster we’re talking about, if your backups are fried, you’re not going to recover

Sponsored When you’re putting your enterprise security and data management strategy in place, should you worry more about ransomware or natural disasters? Yes, of course,

Author rabih
18 Oct

US gov claims ransomware ‘earned’ $590m in the first half of 2021 alone – mostly in Bitcoin

Ransomware extracted at least $590 million for the miscreants who create and distribute it in the first half of 2021 alone – more than the

Author rabih
17 Oct

NFTs not annoying enough? Now they come with wallet-emptying malware

In brief Whether or not non-fungible tokens are a flash in the pan or forever, malware operators have been keen to weaponise the technology. An

Author rabih
15 Oct

Amazon textbook rental service scammed for $1.5m

A 36-year-old man from Portage, Michigan, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly renting thousands of textbooks from Amazon and selling them rather than returning them.

Author rabih
15 Oct

Virus Bulletin: Old malware never dies – it just gets more targeted

Putting a precision payload on top of more generic malware makes perfect sense for malware operators Virus Bulletin this year brought a fresh batch of

Author rabih
15 Oct

When it comes to ransomware, your fightback should start long before you’re attacked

WEBCAST You wouldn’t want to learn to box just as Tyson Fury steps out of the opposing corner. Likewise, the time to learn how to

Author rabih
15 Oct

When it comes to ransomware, your fightback should start long before you’re attacked

WEBCAST You wouldn’t want to learn to box just as Tyson Fury steps out of the opposing corner. Likewise, the time to learn how to

Author rabih
15 Oct

White House ransomware summit calls for virtual asset crackdown, without mentioning cryptocurrency

The 30-nation gabfest convened under the auspices of the US National Security Council’s Counter-Ransomware Initiative has ended with agreement that increased regulation of virtual assets

Author rabih
15 Oct

Client-side content scanning as an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy

Fourteen of the world’s leading computer security and cryptography experts have released a paper arguing against the use of client-side scanning because it creates security

Author rabih
14 Oct

WhatsApp’s got your back(ups) with encryption for stored messages

Facebook’s WhatsApp on Thursday began a global rollout of end-to-end (E2E) encryption for message backups, which offers Android and iOS users with the ability to

Author rabih
14 Oct

Google’s VirusTotal reports that 95% of ransomware spotted targets Windows

Google’s VirusTotal service showing that 95 per cent of ransomware malware identified by its systems targets Windows. VirusTotal, acquired by Google in 2012, operates a

Author rabih
14 Oct

China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL): A New Take on GDPR?

Many people have heard of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), legislation that became law across the EU in May 2018.  It was designed to

Author rabih
14 Oct

3D printing site Thingiverse suffers breach of 228,000 email addresses amid sluggish disclosure

Update Thingiverse, a site that hosts free-to-use 3D printer designs, has suffered a data breach – and at least 228,000 unlucky users’ email addresses have

Author rabih
14 Oct

How to Secure All Your Everyday Connected Devices

Take a roll call of all your devices that connect to the internet. These include the obvious ones – laptops, tablets, and your smartphone. But they also include the ones you may

Author rabih
14 Oct

Employee offboarding: Why companies must close a crucial gap in their security strategy

There are various ways a departing employee could put your organization at risk of a data breach. How do you offboard employees the right way

Author rabih
14 Oct

US invites friends to multilateral cybersecurity meetings – Russia and China strangely absent

The United States has kicked off meetings attended by representatives of nations that all hope to address the scourge of ransomware – without Russia or

Author rabih
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