Security Incidents Are ‘Tip of the Iceberg,’ Says UK Security Official
Pete Cooper, deputy director of cyber defense for the UK Cabinet Office, emphasized the importance of security fundamentals, collaboration, and diversity in his Black Hat Europe keynote talk.A resilient...
Ransomware Makes Up Half of All Major Incidents
Misconfigurations and lack of visibility allow attackers to compromise networks and monetize their intrusions, according to CrowdStrike's analysis of about 200 incidents.Ransomware attacks made up the majority of serious...
Australian Woman Paid a Hitman to Murder Her Parents
An Australian woman allegedly hired a hitman on the darkweb to murder her parents.A British journalist uncovered the plot while investigating the darkweb for a series commissioned by the...
U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye says it was hacked by a nation-state
FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that it had been hacked, likely by a government, and that an arsenal of hacking...
Yandex robots start to deliver restaurant meals in central Moscow
Driverless robot buggies started delivering hot restaurant meals to paying customers in one central Moscow district on Wednesday, their operator, Russian Internet giant Yandex, said. The Yandex.Eats app, one of...
Apple Manufacturer Foxconn Confirms Cyberattack
Manufacturing powerhouse confirmed North American operations impacted by November cyberattack.
Foxconn Technology Group confirmed Tuesday that a November cyberattack knocked some of its U.S. operations offline. The incident...
Record Levels of Software Bugs Plague Short-Staffed IT Teams in 2020
As just one symptom, 83 percent of the Top 30 U.S. retailers have vulnerabilities which pose an “imminent” cyber-threat, including Amazon, Costco, Kroger and Walmart.
2020 is shaping up to...
SideWinder APT Targets Nepal, Afghanistan in Wide-Ranging Spy Campaign
Convincing email-credentials phishing, emailed backdoors and mobile apps are all part of the groups latest effort against military and government targets.
The SideWinder advanced persistent threat (APT) group has mounted...
Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Got Hacked; Red-Team Pentest Tools Stolen
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the world, said on Tuesday it became a victim of a state-sponsored attack by a "highly sophisticated threat actor"...
