A Massachusetts power station hit by ransomware is refusing to meet attackers’ financial demands. The Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD) was targeted on Friday by cyber-criminals hoping to extort money by encrypting data in the station’s computer system. Unfortunately for them, station bosses opted to hire an outside IT consultant…
The United States has long struggled with intellectual property (IP) theft facilitated or condoned by the Chinese government. Just in the past year, a CNBC CFO survey reports that one in five North American corporations have had their IP stolen by China, and just below one-third of CFOs of North…
Admin vs non-admin accounts in Windows 10
Introduction Coke versus Pepsi. Mac versus PC. Red versus Blue. There are some arguments that have been around for so long that the idea of one side or the other being 100% correct are slim to none. Each side has its strengths and weaknesses, along with particular use cases. If…
The Software Engineering Institute CERT Coordination Center advised that several ZyXEL network-attached storage devices contain a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability. CVE-2020-9054, if exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable device. The problem is it uses the weblogin.cgi CGI executable for authentication and that…
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has admitted exposing the personal data of its critics online. The FCA, whose job it is to regulate the conduct of the approximately 59,000 financial services firms and financial markets in the United Kingdom, said the data breach was accidental and inadvertent. Names, addresses,…
Take a comprehensive approach to better protect your organization. Security hygiene is a must, but also look at your risk posture through a data protection lens. People have been talking about making the transition to the cloud for more than a decade. The day that happens is no longer in…
Moscow is harnessing the power of facial recognition technology to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The city’s mayor said on Friday that the tech was being used in Russia’s capital in an effort to dissuade people placed under quarantine from leaving their home or hotel. In a bid…
“We need to rethink our culture and shift from a culture of elitism to a culture of inclusion,” said Ghai. His opening keynote called for the information security industry to change its narrative: “to change our future, we must change and spread our story. We need to agree on the…
London Bridge survivor had fantasies about raping Madeleine McCann
John Lennon was caught sharing sick fantasies with undercover police officers on the dark web (Picture: Devon and Cornwall Police) A man who saved a cyclist’s life in a suspected terror attack has been unmasked as a paedophile who wrote sick fantasies about raping Madeleine McCann and Alesha MacPhail. John…
Order out of chaos? The saga of Chronicle continues with new security features for the Google Cloud Platform. RSA CONFERENCE 2020 – San Francisco – Chronicle — the once spun-off, now reabsorbed cybersecurity division of Google Cloud — launched a handful of new features at the RSA Conference, which kicked off…
Singapore to offer bug bounty and set up Asean cybersecurity centre Singapore government will launch a bug bounty initiative by end-2018, when local and international hackers will be invited to test systems for vulnerabilities, as well as a cybersecurity hub next year to facilitate collaboration and training efforts amongst Asean…
Speaking at RSA Conference in San Francisco, Wendy Nather, head of advisory CISOs, Duo Security at Cisco, said it is time to consider how users are affected by security controls, why mistakes are being made and if product design really benefits users and security. Nather said that if we thought that…
Almost 60% of UK Consumers Affected by Data Breaches in 2019
The number of data breaches that took place around the world in 2019 surpassed all previous years, with a total of 7,098 detected breaches . Although this represents only a marginal increase over the 7,035 breaches documented in 2018, the increase in the total number of records lost is staggering….
Home > Security News > Vulnerabilities Google issued a patch for CVE-2020-6418 that is currently being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability is a confusion vulnerability in V8, Google Chrome’s open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine and rated as a “high” threat by Google. “Google is aware of reports that an…
While there is increased stress in cybersecurity and “good days and bad days,” we should also focus on the “tremendous positives” in the industry’s achievements. Speaking at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) summit at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Phil Venables, board director and senior advisor for risk and cybersecurity at Goldman Sachs Bank, said that despite…
Server-side request forgery is a dangerous attack method that is also becoming an issue for the cloud. Here are some of the basics to help keep your Web server from turning against you. When it’s time to talk attacks, it’s hard to get more evil than a technique that uses…
Phishing attacks have become one of the business world’s top cybersecurity concerns. These social engineering attacks have been rising over the years, with the most recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group coalition identifying over 266,000 active spoofed websites, which is nearly double the number detected during Q4 2018. Hackers…
CoinJoin’s First Steps: How Dark Wallet Paved the Way for a More Private Bitcoin
CoinJoin. Trustless mixing. Anonymity. Bitcoin Magazine’s September 2013 cover — all black with hints of golden fingerprints — needed only four words to announce a powerful new privacy tool. At a time when industry representatives like the Bitcoin Foundation were downplaying Bitcoin’s anonymity features, regulators in New York were developing…
Inmarsat PLC is a British firm that specialises in satellite-based telecommunications. It provides mission critical data and telephone services to users across the globe. The company employs 1,500 people around the world and counts commercial enterprises, governments and humanitarian organisations as its clients. This gives the firm a unique perspective on…
Ahead of her keynote at the RSA Conference, Cisco’s head of advisory CISOs outlines to Dark Reading a unique paradigm that asks security teams to stop fighting their users — and start sharing control with them. (image by Tiko, via Adobe Stock) RSA CONFERENCE 2020 — San Francisco — End users choosing…
