It’s another example that if it sounds too good to be true, it likely is. South Delta resident and IT professional Chuck Hamilton contacted the Optimist recently with a story of scam artists seeking personal information for identity theft. Hamilton said his in-laws, who live in Tsawwassen, stopped by with…
Written by Shannon Vavra Dec 9, 2019 | CYBERSCOOP The Republican National Committee is relying on authentication tools and careful social media behavior in order to avoid a devastating data breach like the kind that derailed its Democratic counterparts in 2016. The RNC, which develops and promotes the party’s platform and currently supports President…
3 HR Risks and How to Avoid Them
HR professionals may handle everything from recruiting, interviewing, and training to payroll and benefits. That means they are the keepers of a lot of important information. And not only do they have information about their organization, but also personal information about employees too. If the wrong hands get ahold of…
At least two companies may have been dealt even more damage than the shipping giant, which lost nearly its entire global IT infrastructure. The unprecedented 2017 NotPetya malware attack on global shipping giant Maersk has been well documented, but according to the organization’s top cybersecurity executive, several other companies suffered…
Home > Security News > Privacy & Compliance News and Analysis If what happens on your iPhone doesn’t stay on your iPhone after all, ultra wideband (UWB) technology is the culprit, according to Apple. After the Apple iPhone 11 Pro was discovered to still be sending out user location data…
Man arrested for buying drugs using app, dark web – mumbai news
The city’s airport customs officers on Sunday arrested a 28-year-old man from Chembur who had placed an order for drugs through a mobile messaging app and paid for them through the dark web using cryptocurrency. Officers seized the drugs from a courier parcel and booked the man under the Narcotics Drugs…
More than 100 dentist offices have reportedly been affected by a recent Sodinokibi ransomware attack on a Colorado-based company that provides IT services to the oral-care practices. Security expert Brian Krebs reported this past weekend via his blog post that Englewood, Colo.-based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS), was attacked back on Nov. 25,…
Stories about privacy blunders by big companies always attract a lot of attention. When that big company is Apple, you can replace ‘a lot’ with ‘a whole lot’. And Apple likes to make public pitches about the privacy its products provide, like the video here: So, when renowned investigative cybersecurity…
The 5 Security Challenges in the Cloud
Security Challenges Facing Cloud Deployments In the cloud, code is deployed at an increasingly neck-breaking speed. As a result, bugs, security holes, and critical errors (sometimes human) are becoming both more likely and more devastating. Against the backdrop of the unprecedented scalability, reliability, flexibility, and rapid deployment capabilities, relying on…
(TNS) — The vast majority of Ohio’s county boards of elections haven’t installed the digital burglar alarm that Secretary of State Frank LaRose says helped his office detect a hacking attempt of his office’s website on Election Day. With less than two months to go before the deadline LaRose imposed…
An Indian information technology, consulting, and business process services company has opened its first of what could eventually be many cybersecurity centers in Australia. Wipro Limited announced the launch of the NextGen Cyber Defense Center on Thursday. The new state-of-the-art facility, which is located in the coastal city of Melbourne, is expected…
An award-winning British cybersecurity firm has gone into administration owing £3.5m to unsecured creditors. XQ Digital Resilience Limited, which traded as XQ Cyber, brought in administrators David Rubin & Partners after declaring bankruptcy in October by placing a notice in the London Gazette. The company was best known for developing CyberScore,…
A Minnesota healthcare facility specializing in treatments for the face, teeth, mouth, and jaw has been hit by a ransomware attack. Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (SEMOMS) announced the data security incident on Thursday via their website. On September 23, 2019, threat actors struck a server used by the organization….
Written by StateScoop Staff Dec 9, 2019 | STATESCOOP State agencies’ data is increasingly at risk to ransomware attack, in part due to poor backup and recovery practices, according to findings from a new survey. Among state IT and agency leaders polled, 69% said it would take their agency from…
The Romanian nationals stole some $4 million in a vast malware, botnet, and cryptocurrency operation. Bucharest, Romania citizens Bogdan Nicolescu, and Radu Miclaus, 37, have been sentenced in US prison for their roles in the Bayrob Group cybercrime operation that infected and took control of some 400,000 computers and stole…
As mergers and acquisitions continued to shape the security industry throughout 2019, these deals were most significant. 1 of 10 (Image: Nespix stock.adobe.com) This year has been a significant one for mergers and acquisitions in cybersecurity. A strong pattern of M&A activity in the first half of 2019 continued into…
The tactics used by the latest version of the Vega cryptolocker program indicates the code may have been stolen from its authors and is now being used for destructive attacks, a new report suggests. Significant changes in the tactics of a new variant of the Vega ransomware may indicate that…
Phishing Campaign Uses Malicious Office 365 App
Most phishing campaigns attempt to take over accounts by tricking the victim into divulging their credentials. PhishLabs has uncovered a previously unseen tactic by attackers that uses a malicious Microsoft Office 365 App to gain access to a victim’s account without requiring them to give up their credentials to the…
Top 7 Free Resources To Learn Deep Learning With PyTorch
PyTorch is on the rise as it is more Pythonic than other prominent deep learning web framework. This enables researchers and new developers to learn quickly and get started with neural networks in no time. Besides, anyone can assimilate the algorithms written in PyTorch due to its effective readability. This…
Women’s activewear retailer Sweaty Betty has emailed some of its customers warning that their payment card details may have been compromised by malicious code running on its website. In an email sent to affected customers, the yoga pants and gym leggings store explained that hackers had gained access to the…
