Security
Hacker claims to have hacked into Rogers days before outage out of good faith
Hacker using pseudonym Rektengle claims to have hacked into Rogers days before the outage to help them secure the perimeter.
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Microsoft Teams settings leave govt officials open to cyberattacks
Relying on default settings on Microsoft Teams leaves users open to threats from external domains. Misconfiguration can prove perilous to high-value targets.
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MIT bets on deep learning to fight cybercrime
Despite best efforts and innovation, cybercrime is on the rise. MIT scientists and leading network defenders urge to explore deep learning to secure systems.
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Google’s new app safety policy is like the fox guarding the hen house, says expert
Relying on developer-written descriptions is akin to tobacco companies crafting their own warning labels.
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Here’s how attackers take down satellites and how we can stop them
As the protection of a fleet of more than 4,800 commercial satellites rises in importance, we are beginning to wonder: what would an attack really look like?
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Mark LeVell, 4Thought Marketing: “every company should examine its processes and see what can be automated”
Keeping up with all in-house goals and tasks as well as failures and vulnerabilities has never been an easy task....
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Oliver Fleetwood, Alex: “insights from wearables can completely change people’s relationship with their health and wellbeing”
The healthcare industry has already been under a lot of pressure, yet the pandemic brought an even greater, devastating need for the implementation of advanced cyber tools.
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Quantum computing in warfare: sensing the enemy
Global cyber warfare is a battle of might and technology between governments and their armies – and the UK government has recently rolled out a heavy weapon when it comes to the digital battlefield.
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Phishing explained: from fake court summons to forged corporate documents
What does a phishing scam typically look like, and what happens if you fall victim to one?
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Online-to-offline shopping giant leaks sensitive user data
Locally, one of the largest online-to-offline shopping sites, leaked 48 million records exposing customer data. Threat actors could exploit the datasets for social engineering, BEC, and spreading malware.
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LockBit ransomware might not last, but its business model will
While the group behind LockBit will eventually disband, its criminal professionalism practices will be a headache for cyber defenders long after.
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Click rate for vishing scams triple that of phishing
Phishing scams that use phone calls are three times more likely to succeed, research by IBM suggests.
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Quantum ransomware gang: fast and furious
With a focus on users rather than infrastructure, Quantum ransomware gang execute an attack in mere hours.
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Phishers gang up on Amazon Prime Day customers
Amazon Prime Day 2022, an annual deal event on July 12-13 exclusively for Prime members, is a goldmine for phishers.
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Horrors of a blockchain: how you could lose all NFT profits in a copyright lawsuit
The sector has been blighted with several negative headlines – but is it cyber-secure just yet?
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Apple’s Lockdown Mode: a decent attempt, but no panacea
The tech giant’s newly introduced capacity to manually limit a device’s attack surface is a step in the right direction, but Lockdown Mode will hardly protect a victim from dedicated nation-state attackers in the long run.
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Fintech CEO: trimming cybersecurity workforce is a sucker's bet
Companies laying off cybersecurity professionals are making themselves an even larger target for cybercrime, an expert claims.
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Shanghai police data leak may be a national security concern for China
The sheer volume of the leak, if authenticated, would make the dataset stolen from Shanghai police a goldmine for spy agencies and threat actors worldwide.
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What’s the biggest cyber threat to your company: hackers, employees, or ransomware?
Given the tremendous growth in cyberattacks during the Covid pandemic, it may be tempting to assume that external threats must naturally pose more of a cyber risk to organizations than internal threats. Yet, it’s a dangerous misconception.
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Roger Northrop, Mutare: “collaboration platforms expand the threat surface and introduce new security vulnerabilities”
It’s pretty obvious, that while the two parties are communicating the third one is not welcome. For that to be...
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