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Cybercrime Is World’s Biggest Criminal Growth Industry
According to a new report, no crime is growing faster in the US than cybercrime, and it is increasing in size, sophistication, and cost. …
Google Outlines Steps It Is Taking to Secure Kubernetes
Kubernetes Security Authentication Moving Forward With… White House Claims Marriott Hack Was China-Sponsored Apple Rolls Out iOS, macOS …
Criminals Using New Phishing Techniques to Hide from Victims and Investigators, Reports APWG
According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report released today, phishers are using new techniques to carry out their attacks …
Officials Discuss Darknet Crime at Interpol General Assembly in Dubai
The advancement of information and communication technologies has affected the nature of today’s digital age and presented a plethora of …
Setting the Table for Effective Cybersecurity: 20 Culinary Questions
Even the best chefs will produce an inferior product if they begin with the wrong ingredients. In security, we need to make sure that we …
Unlocking Android phones with a 3D-printed head
Forbes journalist Thomas Brewster wanted to find out just how well a variety of Android phones and a top-of-the-range Apple iPhone would …
Email security threats that can ruin your company’s holiday season
Most people understand that retail becomes a target for cybercriminals during the holidays. But even businesses not related to the retail …
Brazilian mobile users hit with banking malware
More than 2,000 mobile banking users in Brazil have unknowingly downloaded an Android-based malware that controlled devices and stole their …
How HTTPS Everywhere Keeps Protecting Users On An Increasingly Encrypted Web
Technologies such as HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) allow sites to tell users browsers that they should expect to access a site over …
Conflicted External Auditors at Heart of Equifax Data Breach
What has not been discussed, however, is the fact that since 2011 Equifax held third party certification to ISO 27001, the international …
What are Deep Neural Networks Learning About Malware?
An increasing number of modern antivirus solutions rely on machine learning (ML) techniques to protect users from malware. While ML-based …
Open Source Vulnerabilities: Minding Your Blind Spots
The heightened awareness to security vulnerabilities in open source components has spurred security researchers in enterprises and in the …
Twitter says it receives half a million of spam reports per month
Twitter said today that its staff receives over half a million spam reports per month, a number that while considerable has actually fallen …
France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says emergency contact information database has been breached
The Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in France has released a statement announcing that personal information has been stolen in a …
Education Gets an ‘F’ for Cybersecurity
A new report evaluating cybersecurity for 17 US industries puts the education sector in last place, sparking concern as businesses in the …
Compromising vital infrastructure: the power grid
Where were you when the lights went out? That line became famous after the 1977 blackout in New York …
A popular Boomoji app exposed millions of users’ contact lists and location data
Popular animated avatar creator app Boomoji, with more than five million users across the world, exposed the personal data of its entire …
New SOC 2 Report Available: Privacy
Maintaining your trust is an ongoing commitment of ours, and your voice drives our growing portfolio of compliance reports, attestations, …
AWS Security Profile (and re:Invent 2018 wrap-up): Eric Docktor, VP of AWS Cryptography
We sat down with Eric Docktor to learn more about his 19-year career at Amazon, what’s new with cryptography, and to get his take on this …
Nintendo Sues Californian for Selling Modded NES Classic and Switch Hacks
Nintendo really, really doesn’t like piracy. Earlier this week, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against a California man who allegedly sold …
French foreign ministry announced its Travel Alert Registry Hack
The French foreign ministry announced today that its travel alert registry website had been hacked and personal data of citizens “could …
A popular ‘boomoji’ app exposed millions of users’ contact lists and location data
Popular animated avatar creator app Boomoji, with more than five million users across the world, exposed the personal data of its entire …
Twitter says governments are ramping up their demands for user data
Twitter says the number of government demands for data on its users has shot up in the past year. In its latest transparency report out …
The Economics Fueling IoT (In)security
2018 might be remembered as the year security truly made its entry into the minds of enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) users. As a …
Operation Sharpshooter targets critical infrastructure and global defense
McAfee uncovered a campaign tracked as Operation Sharpshooter that hit at least 87 organizations in global defense and critical …
‘Exclusive swag’ up for grabs as GitLab flings bug bounty scheme open to world+dog
DevOps outfit GitLab has opened its bug bounty scheme to world+dog, having paid out $200,000 last year and fixed “nearly 200 …
Over half of Brazil’s population exposed in security incident
A publicly accessible server containing unique taxpayer registry identification numbers for Brazilian nationals has been discovered, …
Education sector poorly prepared for cyberthreats
Data is a vital resource in the education sector and increasingly schools and colleges store information in digital form. Digital …
Shamoon malware destroys data at Italian oil and gas company
A new variant of the Shamoon malware was discovered on the network of Italian oil and gas contractor Saipem, where it destroyed files on …
Kubernetes Vulnerability: How To Secure Your Kubernetes Clusters
If you haven’t yet heard, a major security vulnerability was discovered in Kubernetes this week that opens the door for hackers to …
SOC Reporting Requirements You Need to Know in a Cloud Environment
Security lapses in some of the world’s biggest companies continue to appear in news headlines, and information security is top of mind …
Border agents are copying travelers’ data, leaving it on USB drives
Are you one of the travelers to the US who’ve been stopped, questioned, and required to hand over your electronic devices for search? Our …
Overcoming the Cloud Security Compliance Conundrum
Compliance with various regulations and cloud security requirements has expanded as technology and cloud uptake advance — albeit not at a …
Supermicro: We told you the tampering claims were false
Computer manufacturer Supermicro is still trying to lay to rest reports that the Chinese government tampered with its equipment to spy on …
WordPress worms, Android fraud and Flash fails [PODCAST]
In the Naked Security podcast this week: Unpatched WordPress servers plagued by worm Google Play plagued by ad-fraud malware Adobe Flash …
Update now! Microsoft and Adobe’s December 2018 Patch Tuesday is here
If you find patching security flaws strangely satisfying, you’re in luck – Microsoft’s and Adobe’s December Patch Tuesdays have …