A newly discovered vulnerability that could affect 83 million IoT devices allows an attacker to listen to live audio, watch real-time video data, compromise device credentials for further attacks or remotely control devices, according to new research. According to Mandiant, a subsidiary of cybersecurity firm FireEye, the IoT vulnerability is in the ThroughTek Kalay network, […]
System administrators, IT professionals and cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm over ransomware and the increasing frequency of attacks over the last few months, and their message is now beginning to be picked up by mainstream media. Ransomware is now rising to a national security level thanks to recent attacks against Colonial Pipeline, JBS […]
Macro-based malware, an attack that once fell out of favor with hackers is possibly resurging, according to experts.
A new ransomware payment tracking site aims to make financial transactions to ransomware operators more transparent, see who’s on top.
Much has been made of the vulnerabilities recently discovered in the Windows Print Spooler Service and Microsoft’s patches for the issue. Now, systems that remain unpatched are being attacked by ransomware operators. In a new report, Cisco Talos says a threat actor is exploiting those vulnerabilities – dubbed PrintNightmare – to spread laterally across a […]
IT teams across the globe faced unprecedented challenges in 2020 and 2021, and cybersecurity concerns are at – or near – the top of the list, leading to IT departments investing more in security, according to a new report from Sophos. The cybersecurity giant polled 5,400 IT managers across 30 countries and found that workloads […]
The Senate has passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill allocating $1.9 billion towards securing critical infrastructure against attacks.
Microsoft’s August security patches include fixes for 44 vulnerabilities, including three zero days and one that is being actively exploited. The most important patches fix issues related to the Windows Print Spooler remote code execution vulnerability and the Windows LSA spoofing vulnerability and an actively exploited vulnerability in Windows Update Medic Service. Because of the […]
Cyber experts believe cyber criminal gang, DarkSide has rebranded causing what some call a giant “game of whack-a-mole.”
If you’re still requiring users to create complex passwords with a combination of letters, numbers and symbols, think again, says the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. The NCSC, the U.K. counterpart to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), maintains that complexity requirements and making users regularly change passwords is actually less secure than […]
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