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A Data Protection Officer’s Guide to the Post-GDPR Deadline Reality
Part 3 of our DPO’s Guide to the GDPR Galaxy series. GDPR doomsday has …
Malwarebytes Buys Binisoft for Firewall Management
Malwarebytes is acquiring Binisoft, a privately held Romanian company, to strengthen its endpoint protection platform. Binisoft is behind …
Of mice and cyber
What’s the difference between a combustion engine and a mouse? (no this isn't the opening of a bad joke).
Answer: a combustion …
2 million stolen identities used to make fake net neutrality comments
You may recall all those reports of fake and bot-generated comments left in what former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called …
New consolidated identity system simplifies access to enterprise systems
Employee experience platform Sapho is announcing a new identity solution to simplify how employees authenticate into systems and access …
Pornhub Launches VPNhub For Your Secure Porn (And Non-Porn) Perusing
Pornhub, having recently entered into the cryptocurrency game, today takes another step towards making sure your online porn game is even …
Office 365 will automatically block Flash and Silverlight
If you are one of the small number of Office 365 users who enjoyed embedding Flash, Shockwave or Silverlight content inside files, time is …
FBI admits to inflating number of crime-related devices it can’t crack
Investigators can’t get into 7,775 devices, FBI Director Christopher Wray repeatedly claimed in 2017, using the scary statistic to argue …
Cryptocurrency not a major threat to enterprises say security professionals
While 84 percent of security professionals believe cryptocurrencies are here to stay, most don’t see them as a major threat to the …
Flux Networks
Over the past few weeks, I’ve covered some of the techniques used to hide malware Command & Control (C&C) traffic. Recently, I went into …
Cybersecurity experts agree — expect more ransomware this year
can cost a company about $280,000 per incident. If the cost were not enough, companies need to come to terms with the fact that 64% of …
More Than Half of Users Reuse Passwords
Most security experts agree that passwords are a poor security mechanism. What’s even …
Insurance startup leaks sensitive customer health data
A software startup that provides independent insurance brokers with customer management software has exposed highly sensitive information …
Lessons From the Cold War: Data Security Through Obscurity
During a long-term project in 2016, my team was tasked with reviewing the security features of a popular Soviet-era GPS satellite …
Xenotime, Threat actors Behind Triton Malware broadens its activities
The threat actor behind the Triton malware (aka Trisis, Xenotime, and HatMan) is now targeting organizations worldwide and safety …
6 Open Source SIEM Tools
Helping to protect IT environments from cyber attacks and comply with tightening compliance standards, SIEM systems are becoming the …
GDPR: One rule to rule them all – legally
There is a certain similarity between J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming to force tomorrow, May 25 2018. …
VPNFilter router malware – what to do? [VIDEO]
Malware of the week is a router nasty known as VPNFilter. In jargon words, VPNFilter is an IoT botnet that has apparently shown up on at …
Why Proof-of-work isn’t suitable for small cryptocurrencies
It seems that proof-of-work (PoW), the consensus protocol behind Bitcoin, isn’t ideal for smaller cryptocurrencies, because they’re …
JASK Applies AI to Security Incident Analysis, Management
SAN JOSE, CA—Imagine a security analysis platform that can comb through the thousands of alerts you’re getting from your intrusion …
GDPR is already a success, whether you like it or not
Even before it comes into effect, Europe’s new GDPR data protection legislation is already having a positive impact. GDPR is a broad set of …
Personal Data of 200M Japanese sold on underground hacking forums
A cybercriminal operating from outside China was found to be selling data of nearly 200 million Japanese users on underground hacking …
VPNFilter botnet has hacked 500,000 routers. Reboot and patch now!
VPNFilter, is believed to be likely to be controlled by a state-sponsored hacking group variously known variously as APT28, Pawn Storm, …
Why Isn’t There a US GDPR?
US GDPR Recently, I was reading an article from The Hartford on how to protect business income. The Hartford recommends something that …
Mixed Reality Meets Its Full Potential
Virtual reality (VR) use cases have expanded — and innovation continues to drive adoption beyond just the video game industry. In fact, …
A Basic Z-Wave Hack Exposes Up To 100 Million Smart Home Devices
So-called “smart” locks and alarms are proliferating across people’s homes, even though hackers have shown various weaknesses in …
Here’s How to Download All the Data Apple Collects About You
Apple is making it easier for its users to download their data the company has collected about them so far. On Wednesday, Apple just …
Phishers Target Facebook to Harvest User Data
Facebook dominated attempts to phish unsuspecting netizens in the first quarter of the year, accounting for 60% of all social network …
Losses from BEC scams rising fast and furious
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received a record-high 301,000 complaints of internet-facilitated fraud and other …
VPNFilter malware compromises over 500,000 networking devices around the world
Cisco Talos researchers have flagged a huge botnet of small and home office routers and NAS devices, capable of collecting communications …
Trisis masterminds have hacked U.S. industrial firms, new research claims
A group known for infecting a Saudi petrochemical plant with highly sophisticated industrial control malware has targeted the same type of …
Singapore warns eight cryptocurrency exchanges not to engage in unauthorised trading
Eight unnamed digital token exchanges have been told not to facilitate trading that involved securities or futures contracts without …
UK: We’ll Return Fire Against Deadly State Cyber-Attacks
The UK’s attorney general has clarified the government’s position on state-sponsored cyber-attacks, saying the country will fight back …
London’s Met Police: We won’t use facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival
London cops will not use controversial and inaccurate facial recognition technology at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival – in a departure …
Cisco: Destructive VPNFilter Malware Has Infected 500K Devices
Security experts are warning of a major new destructive malware campaign targeting half a million home routers around the world with a …
Instapaper on pause in Europe to fix GDPR compliance “issue”
Remember Instapaper? The Pinterest-owned, read-it-later bookmarking service is taking a break in Europe — apparently while it works on …