North Koreans hack their smartphones to evade state controls – report
While extremely limited, the culture of hacking has taken root in one of the most isolated places on the planet.
Despite North Korea’s draconian efforts to keep its population away...
Have insurers spurred the growth of ransomware attacks?
Throwing insurance money to cover ransom payments only seems to have worsened the situation. Knowing that victims would be able to draw upon their insurance policies, cybercriminals continue attacking...
Plan for $1M bug bounties and double the nodes in wake of $600M Ronin...
The Ronin Network and Sky Mavis have vowed to upgrade their smart contracts, offer lucrative bug bounties and ramp up security following the $600 million hack late last month....
308,000 databases were exposed to the open web in 2021: report
The conversation surrounding the importance of data security doesn’t seem to be coming to naught in light of the new findings, which discovered 308,000 openly exposed databases in 2021...
As crooks become more greedy, many insurers refuse to pay ransoms
Freshly released ransomware statistics reveal a grim reality – the number of victims keeps growing, more companies are paying up, and ransoms that criminals demand are sky-high.
A survey by...
Angry tweeters ditch Musk for Mastodon
An obscure open-source social media outlet is enjoying another popularity surge, as users concerned by Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover desert the high-profile platform, it has announced.
Mastodon saw its new...
Chainguard launches native Kubernetes compliance software Enforce
Software supply chain security provider Chainguard is launching its first product, Chainguard Enforce, a native Kubernetes application for securing deployment of container images.Enforce is designed to let developers define,...
