Should insurers be doing more to protect us from cyberattacks?
That cyberattacks have risen tremendously during the COVID-era is beyond dispute. How this deluge of attacks can best be rebuffed is another matter. A recent report from consultancy giant...
Microsoft could reap more than $150 million in new U.S. cyber spending, upsetting some...
Microsoft stands to receive nearly a quarter of Covid relief funds destined for U.S. cybersecurity defenders, sources told Reuters, angering some lawmakers who don’t want to increase funding for...
Error caused world’s largest academic book publisher to give books away free
We recently discovered that Springer Nature — the world’s largest academic book publisher and publisher of leading journals, including titles such as Scientific American, Macmillan, and Nature – had...
Hacker on hacker crime: personal information of 24,000 illegal data buyers leaked online
Could the leak spell doom for former customers of the illicit data brokerage WeLeakInfo?A user on a popular hacker forum is selling a database containing highly sensitive information of...
New steganography attack targets Azerbaijan
A lure document targeting Azerbaijan uses steganography to conceal a remote administration Trojan.
This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi
Threat actors often vary their techniques to thwart security...
Verkada surveillance cameras at Tesla, hundreds more businesses breached
A small group of hackers viewed live and archived surveillance footage from hundreds of businesses including Tesla Inc by gaining administrative access to camera maker Verkada over the past...
Russia slows Twitter’s speed over failure to remove banned content
Russia’s state communications watchdog said on Wednesday it was restricting the use of Twitter by slowing down its speed, accusing the social media platform of repeatedly failing to remove...
Online payments: revenue growth matched only by increasing threats
Global self-isolation pushed revenues for online commerce to the moon. Even though the pandemic will eventually run out of steam, customers are unlikely to become immune to the comforts...
New free software signing service aims to strengthen open-source ecosystem
The Linux Foundation has launched a free service that software developers can use to digitally sign their releases and other software artifacts. The project aims to strengthen the security...
French startup lobby to file privacy complaint against Apple
France Digitale will file a complaint against iPhone maker Apple with data privacy watchdog CNIL on Tuesday over alleged breaches of European Union rules, France’s leading startup lobby said...
