Russia accused of hacking Dutch police during MH17 investigation
Journalists at the Dutch newspaper “De Volkskrant” have reported that the country’s intelligence service, AIVD, discovered in 2017 …
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Widespread Internet Outages: Fastly Reports Problem Fixed
Amazon, Google, Spotify and Twitter were among the sites that were unreachable Tuesday morning due to a configuration error at widely used …
800 arrests after police dupe crime groups into using backdoored phones
An international operation that monitored an encrypted device company under control of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the …
Using iPhones and AirTags to sneak data out of air-gapped networks
Someone has found an extraordinary way to exfiltrate data by piggybacking data on the backs of unsuspecting iPhones. Say …
Financial Firm Reports Puzzling 30% Drop in Breaches as Incidents Rise
Data breach incidents reported to the UK’s financial regulator dropped by nearly a third from 2019 to 2020, although experts claim this …
IoT riddled with BadAlloc vulnerabilities
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published advisory ICSA-21-119-04 about vulnerabilities found in multiple …
FIN7 sysadmin behind “billions in damage” gets 10 years
In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and …
‘Inbox Zero’ Your Threat Reports: How to Combat Security Alert Fatigue
At best, a new cybersecurity alert should trigger immediate action. But we all know in practice that work is not always clear …
“Huge upsurge” in DDoS attacks during pandemic
Researchers at Netscout have released a report analyzing the malicious internet traffic of 2020 and comparing it to the years before. Some …
NAME:WRECK, a potential IoT trainwreck
April 24, 2012 – The fight against malware is a cat-and-mouse game. It is constant and constantly …
How bitcoin payments unmasked a man who hired a Dark Web contract killer
April 24, 2012 – The fight against malware is a cat-and-mouse game. It is constant and constantly …
Facebook Reports China-Linked Cyberattack Targeting Uyghurs
Facebook today shared the details of an attack campaign that used its platform as part of a broader operation to spy on Uyghur Muslim …