DOJ won’t prosecute white hat hackers
Good-faith security researchers who probe or hack systems to point out vulnerabilities and help organizations patch them will no longer face charges.
On Thursday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced...
FinCEN associate director says his agency has its eyes on DeFi projects
Written by Tonya Riley May 19, 2022 |...
Critical Vulnerability in Premium WordPress Themes Allows for Site Takeover
Privilege escalation flaw discovered in the Jupiter and JupiterX Core Plugin affects more than 90,000 sites.
A critical privilege escalation flaw found in two themes used by more than 90,000...
Millions of Brits exposed as traffic camera data left open to public
A dataset thought to belong to UK law enforcement agencies left information on millions of vehicles accessible to the public, the Cybernews research team has discovered. Threat actors could...
DOJ revises computer fraud prosecution standards to ease off ‘good-faith’ research
Written by AJ Vicens May 19, 2022 |...
CISA urges govt agencies to remove or update VMWare products
US cyber watchdog claims that VMware‘s vulnerabilities pose an unacceptable risk to Federal agencies and require emergency action.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of multiple vulnerable products...
Ransomware empire on streak: extortion demands up by 45%
Ransomware gangs have become greedier. Hive requested a whopping $240 million from MediaMarkt, and the average ransom demand grew to $247,000 in 2021.
Ransomware’s sophistication is clearly visible from the...
Cardiologist moonlighted as successful ransomware developer
Moises Luis Zagala, cardiologist by day, ransomware developer by night, has been charged by the US government for computer crimes.
The US has charged a 55-year-old French-Venezuelan cardiologist from...
