Ascent to the Cloud: years of progress with perforated security
The sudden need to work from home en masse caused years of progress to happen in a few months over the last year. Nowhere is this more obvious than...
NFT artwork by humanoid robot sells at auction for nearly $700,000
A digital artwork by humanoid robot Sophia was sold at auction on Thursday for $688,888 in the form of a Non-Fungible Token (NFT). NFTs, a digital signature saved on blockchain...
What was so striking to Microsoft’s president about SolarWinds and Exchange Server attacks?
Basic cybersecurity concepts could have prevented or at least substantially reduced the risk of being penetrated during the recent SolarWinds or Microsoft Exchange Server incidents. Microsoft president Brad Smith...
11 million records of French users stolen from marketing platform and put for sale...
The leak could put millions of Apollo.io users and their employers at risk of phishing and social engineering attacks, as well as brute-force attempts.A user on a popular hacking...
Patched Microsoft Exchange Servers give a false sense of security, says CISA’s Brandon Wales
Weeks after software bugs were first uncovered by Microsoft, thousands of Exchange Servers are still unpatched. But even updated systems might be breached, Brandon Wales, the acting CISA (the...
Microsoft in talks to acquire Discord for more than $10 billion
Microsoft Corp is in talks to buy messaging platform Discord Inc for more than $10 billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.Discord has reached out to...
62,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers potentially left unpatched, weeks after software bugs were first uncovered
A number of entities in the US and worldwide remain vulnerable to software bugs that were reported by Microsoft weeks ago. The CyberNews investigation team found 62,174 potentially vulnerable...
Cyberattacks remind of scary movies, acting head of the FCC
The recent breach of Microsoft Exchange shows that cybersecurity threats are almost mundane whereas defense – insufficient, claims the FCC’s acting chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. The only way forward is...
The CSO guide to top security conferences, 2021
There is nothing like attending a face-to-face event for career networking and knowledge gathering, and we don’t have to tell you how helpful it can be to get a...
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Facebook appeal in user tracking lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc’s bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking the activities of...
