An Android app sitting on the Google Play store touts itself to be a photo editor app. But, it contains code that steals the user’s Facebook credentials to potentially run...
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is warning of the dangers stemming from the use of broadly-scoped certificates to authenticate multiple servers in an organization. In...
The threat landscape continues to expand with an expediential rise in pandemic-related phishing campaigns targeting companies, governments, and individuals. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently...
In the opening column of this series, “Emerging Technology, Evolving Threats,” [check out Part I here and Part II here], I wrote about quantum computing —...
Research into the hacking techniques that result in companies being infected with ransomware offers organizations some useful pointers towards how best to avoid this increasingly common form of...
UPDATED US Senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed a new piece of legislation that will force organizations to disclose when and how much they have paid to ransomware gangs. Last...
In a new report by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), online investigators uncovered nearly 1,200 advertisements for close to 2,400 animals, parts, derivatives or...
A US optometry group has disclosed a data breach related to unauthorized activity on internal email accounts. Oregon Eye Specialists, which runs six clinics throughout Portland, said the...
A new version of a Linux crypto-mining malware previously used to target Docker containers in 2020 now focuses on new cloud service providers like the Huawei...
Ukrainian police have arrested a hacker who controlled a 100,000 device botnet used to perform DDoS attacks on behalf of paid customers. DDoS for hire The...