The Twitter accounts of America’s National Football League (NFL) and 15 of its teams have been hacked just one week before the biggest football game of the 2019–2020 season. The first team to be compromised was the Chicago Bears, whose account @ChicagoBears was hacked at 8:40 a.m. on Sunday morning. Followers were…
Breaking with the U.S. stance on Huawei, the U.K. will let the company participate in building its 5G network but said it would put a secure framework in place to protect the network from high-risk vendors. ”We want world-class connectivity as soon as possible but this must not be at…
Automating API Security in the Cloud
These days, the most common way for services to communicate and transfer data is by using APIs. However, broken, exposed, or hacked APIs are the cause of some of the latest major data breaches, as they have the potential to expose sensitive data for public consumption. Securing your APIs is…
LONDON – The British government announced Tuesday that it plans to allow the Chinese telecom giant Huawei to build “non-core” infrastructure for the country’s coming super-fast 5G network, although the company may be designated a “high-risk vendor” with a capped market share. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been under tremendous…
A coalition of states is suing the Trump administration in an effort to stop it from making it easier for people to make 3D-printed guns. Specifically, top law enforcement officials are trying to keep the administration from allowing people to post blueprints online to print what are sometimes called “ghost…
Candid Successfully Migrates REPAY Payment Gateway to Amazon Web Services with Zero Downtime
Candid modernizes one of the world’s leading payment processors ATLANTA, Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Candid, a cloud technology and management consulting firm and Advanced Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), announces the successful migration for REPAY’s, entire Payment Gateway solution to AWS. REPAY is a…
PCI Pal® launches PCI Pal Digital for omnichannel payment security
Launching on Data Protection Day 2020, the new solution delivers PCI compliance for payments across digital channels including webchat, social media, email and SMS PCI Pal®, the global provider of secure payment solutions, has today announced the launch of PCI Pal Digital. Combined with its existing Agent Assist and IVR…
The age of autonomy is upon us. While talk of autonomous cars in the not-too-distant future captures the imagination, the reality is that autonomous systems are very much with us in the present day. We see it in the robots that are packing parcels in an online retailer’s warehouse, or…
If you use Zoom to host your remote online meetings, you need to read this piece carefully. The massively popular video conferencing software has patched a security loophole that could have allowed anyone to remotely eavesdrop on unprotected active meetings, potentially exposing private audio, video, and documents shared throughout the…
The Shlayer malware isn’t new. Two years ago when researchers discovered it infecting Mac computers they noted that the malware’s technique of disguising itself as an Adobe Flash Player update could hardly be considered novel either. And yet, according to a recently-published report from Russian security outfit Kaspersky, there are…
5 Security Trends and Predictions to Watch in 2020
The 2019 cybersecurity landscape was once again littered with attacks. From the resurgence of ransomware to mega data breaches, cybercriminals continue to target organizations and individuals around the world. In addition to the sheer volume of attacks in 2019, the industry also witnessed a mix of old and new threats…
The cathedral quickly deleted the tweet, and the Space Force explained that general Raymond had never intended to swear-in all subsequent commanders with the Bible. He was, they said, simply mimicking an Air Force tradition; its first leader had been sworn in on a Bible that has been kept in…
Three men have been arrested in Indonesia in a region-wide crackdown on gangs using the infamous Magecart digital skimming code, according to Interpol. The law enforcement organization worked with private sector partner Group-IB to identify and analyze hundreds of e-commerce websites around the world infected with the malicious JavaScript. Its…
Staff in large enterprises send 136 emails per week to the wrong person, according to new data from Tessian released to coincide with today’s Data Protection Day. The annual event was launched 13 years by the Council of Europe to recognize the date in 1981 that signatures were invited for…
The UK government has unveiled a new consumer IoT law designed to prohibit the sale of smart products that fail to meet three strict security requirements. Drawn up by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the proposals would ensure all IoT kit sold in the UK allows…
Earlier this month police warned of ‘courier fraud’ scams where fraudsters pose as a police officer or bank official to persuade their often elderly and vulnerable victims to hand over large amounts of cash. In six out of the seven instances this month, the fraudster has cold-called the victim by…
National Security Agency (NSA) guide helps guard against cloud misconfigurations, poor access controls & share tenancy & supply chain vulnerabilities. by Dan Kobialka • Jan 27, 2020 Cloud misconfigurations, poor access controls and shared tenancy and supply chain vulnerabilities plague many organizations, and the National Security Agency (NSA) has released…
Democrats embrace war hawk Bolton in Trump impeachment trial
Democrats embrace war hawk Bolton in Trump impeachment trial By Patrick Martin 28 January 2020 Leaked excerpts from a forthcoming book by former national security advisor John Bolton have staggered the Trump White House and overshadowed the efforts by Trump’s lawyers to mount a defense in the Senate impeachment…
Remember how I explained earlier this month how Microsoft wasn’t going to release any more updates to Windows 7, and how it would be a really good idea (if you care a jot about security) to switch to a newer version of Windows or something else? Yeah, well, about that……
Powered by the National Cyber Security Alliance, Data Privacy Day is an international effort to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust. Personal data is being processed every second whether that be at work, surfing the internet, doctor’s office, purchasing goods, and more. From…
