Cyber Security Newsfeeds from around the world
Ransomware has recently vaulted to the top of the news again, as devastating attacks continue to impact government, education and business operations in many jurisdictions, particularly in the United States. These attacks start in a number of ways – so…
Continue ReadingInstagram users are currently targeted by a new phishing campaign that uses login attempt warnings coupled with what looks like two-factor authentication (2FA) codes to make the scam more believable. Crooks use phishing to trick potential victims into …
Continue ReadingIn an interview with TechnoMag, on the sidelines of the workshop in Harare today, Africom Marketing Executive Kevin Nyakotyo says this initiative is set to ensure that users are empowered with knowledge and sense of shared responsibility to practice sa…
Continue ReadingPractical advice to help you build a solid InfoSec plan. By Michelle Drolet, CEO, Towerwall. The risk of your business falling victim to cybercrime has never been higher. Despite a seemingly endless parade of high profile data breaches, ransomware atta…
Continue ReadingThe study by security firm Sophos reveals that across Australia, the majority (60%) of business decision makers believe lack of security expertise is a challenge for their organisation, with 65% observing recruitment of skills to be a struggle. This co…
Continue ReadingYe Olde Spam. At the end of that year, AOL shared a list of the prevailing spam subjects, a collection of material that should sound familiar to anyone who had an inbox at the time. The list included some spam perennials — back-of-the-magazine junk, ad…
Continue ReadingFor the first time in… well, in ages, anyway… a jailbreak exists for the very latest version of iOS! Jailbreaking is where you exploit a security hole, or more likely a whole series of security holes, in what is essentially a carefully orchestrated cyb…
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Thanks to some reports of service failures of the popular streaming platform Netflix, a group of specialists has detected multiple denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities in various implementations of the HTTP/2 network protocol, which allows the op…
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From Microsoft patches to Android malware on brand new phones, and everything in between. Catch up with all the stories we wrote last week – it’s weekly roundup time.
Continue ReadingThe modern enterprise’s digital perimeter is thus evolving and expanding just as the digital threats enterprise face also evolve to wreak more havoc than ever before. Traditional endpoint security solutions focused—and continue to focus—on traditional …
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