Cyber Security Newsfeeds from around the world
Too many small and medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) are under the belief that purchasing “This One Product” or “This One Managed Service” will provide all the security their network requires. If this were true, large corporations with huge IT budgets w…
Continue ReadingAmerican telecommunication company Sprint recently learned that hackers breached the customers account through Samsung website. According to the letter shared by the company on June 22, says that “unauthorized access to your Sprint account using your a…
Continue Reading, the Dutch National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) arrested an individual suspected of building and selling such a criminal toolkit named the Rubella Macro Builder. McAfee Advanced Threat Research spotted the Rubella toolkit in the wild some time ago an…
Continue ReadingSprint’s security team is having a very, very lousy 2019. On top of the earlier Boost Mobile breach , the carrier has revealed that hackers obtained “unauthorized access” to an unspecified number of Sprint accounts through Samsung’s “add a line” website.
Continue ReadingGabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle. An optometrist has an office downstairs. Weinberg’s company, DuckDuckGo , has become one of the feistiest adversaries of Google….
Continue ReadingA pair of vulnerabilities in BMC firmware used in servers built by Lenovo – and in Acer and Penguin Computing boxes using Gigabyte server motherboards – can be exploited to hide malware deep below the operating system, hypervisor, and antivirus. Said s…
Continue Reading, a world leader in automotive and enterprise edge cybersecurity, announced the signing of a production agreement of its leading Carwall runtime integrity software, in
infotainment systems. Alpine The platform provides an ECU self-protection against r…
Continue Reading[co-author: Robert Shoemaker] A data breach may cost a company millions in recovery and liability damages, but rarely does a breach force a company into bankruptcy. However, a months-long data breach at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) in 2018…
Continue ReadingAs they seek to distribute ransomware and other malware, or to gain access to sensitive information and systems, cyber criminals have long been able to count on a huge community of allies: unwitting users. Despite the well-known risks associated with w…
Continue ReadingAs we enter the second half of 2019, several key themes in the cybersecurity arena have come to the fore. Artificial intelligence and machine learning continue to take center stage, but a raft of emerging system threats and a host of new app vulnerabil…
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