Action Fraud is the reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime committed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It has been set up for the reporting of incidents in which people have been scammed, defrauded or experienced cyber crime. Action Fraud operates as a central point of contact for information…
Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?
If you’re running a business online, few things can be as disruptive or destructive to your brand as someone stealing your company’s domain name and doing whatever they wish with it. Even so, most major Web site owners aren’t taking full advantage of the security tools available to protect their…
The United States Congress made some significant progress this session when it comes to data privacy, but cybersecurity remains a blind spot for lawmakers. Congress currently is considering a national privacy law that mirrors legislation enacted in the European Union. It would allow people to access, correct and request the…
Jamtara actors share their experience of working in Netflix’s web series
Jamtara actors share their experience of working in Netflix’s web series Updated : 25 Jan 2020 03:18 PM (IST) Jamtara, a new Netflix ten-part series, starts from the point where that phone call ends, taking us deep into the lives of people like Sunny. Monika Panwar and Sparsh Shrivastav share their…
Sometimes, ransomware can feel like the flu. As soon as hospitals find a defense, a new and more sophisticated version appears—making it difficult for hospital leaders to keep up. Cryptic names like WannaCry, Petya and SamSam—all variants of ransomware—have become common points of discussion in healthcare. But while those ransomware…
DEF CON 27, Voting Village – Marian Schneider’s ‘Voting Systems Are Insecure: Lets Just Vote On Phones’
Thanks to Def Con 27 Volunteers, Videographers and Presenters for publishing their superlative conference videos via their YouTube Channel for all to see, enjoy and learn. Permalink The post DEF CON 27, Voting Village – Marian Schneider’s ‘Voting Systems Are Insecure: Lets Just Vote On Phones’ appeared first on Security…
SEIU reaches tentative agreement at Cleveland Public Library in attempt to avert strike
SEIU reaches tentative agreement at Cleveland Public Library in attempt to avert strike By Isaac Finn 25 January 2020 On the evening of January 23, Cleveland Public Library (CPL) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1199 reached a tentative agreement covering roughly 400 librarians, assistants and custodians, potentially averting…
DEF CON 27, Voting Village – Kimberly Young McLear PhD ‘Organizational Cybernetics: A Key To Resilience’
Thanks to Def Con 27 Volunteers, Videographers and Presenters for publishing their superlative conference videos via their YouTube Channel for all to see, enjoy and learn. Permalink The post DEF CON 27, Voting Village – Kimberly Young McLear PhD ‘Organizational Cybernetics: A Key To Resilience’ appeared first on Security Boulevard….
New York prosecutors have evidence suggesting that Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, shared compromising texts about her affair with Bezos to her brother, Michael Sanchez, The Wall Street Journal reports. Michael then reportedly sold those photos to the National Enquirer, which then published a story about Lauren and Bezos’ affair…
The street outside ICANN’s offices in Playa Vista, California, may be a little more crowded than normal. People worried about the .org top-level domain will be there protesting its sale to a private equity firm. They’ll be handing over a petition signed by over 21,000 people to the Internet Corporation…
Nearly a dozen technology companies said they will provide free or reduced-cost cybersecurity services to presidential campaigns, which experts and intelligence officials have warned are ripe targets for intrusion and disinformation. They join a growing number of firms offering protection on a nonpartisan basis, a trend that has gained steam…
Law360 (January 24, 2020, 4:49 PM EST) — Business email compromise, or BEC, scams, wherein attackers target companies’ financial employees and trick them into transferring funds to criminals, is one of the most costly forms of cybercrime. The crime can be highly sophisticated, employing the skills of lawyers, linguists, hackers…
Protecting Websites from Magecart and Other In-Browser Threats
The Rise of Third-Party Scripts Modern web applications have become increasingly reliant on external code, services and vendors that execute JavaScript code in the browser… often referred to as third-party scripts. As a close-to-home example shown below, Akamai executes dozens of scripts to populate our home page. Nearly 70% of…
CISA has released an advisory for six high-severity CVEs for GE Carescape patient monitors, Apex Pro, and Clinical Information Center systems. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) today issued an advisory for six high-severity security vulnerabilities in patient monitoring devices manufactured by GE Healthcare. These flaws, collectively dubbed “MDhex,”…
How to enable dark mode on WhatsApp web
Just a few days back, WhatsApp had reportedly rolled out the much-awaited Dark Mode feature for its Android Beta version 2.20.13. The feature was spotted by WABetaInfo, a blog that tracks WhatsApp development. If you want to use the feature on your Android smartphones, all you need to do is…
Personal Online Security – Account Management
Continuing a series on how to better strengthen your personal online privacy, we are looking to take personal inventory of how we connect online. These were themes covered during our webinar “Security Beyond Your Website: Personal Online Privacy” and in a Twitter conversation (through the #Digiblogchat weekly forum) on this…
Last week, senior U.S. officials warned their British counterparts that letting Chinese telecom giants like Huawei build next-generation 5G internet infrastructure would be “nothing short of madness” for national security. The comments follow a Council of the European Union (EU) conclusion that 5G must respect “core values of the EU…
In the summer of 2017, a 25-year-old government contractor exposed detailed evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Reality Winner printed out classified U.S. Intelligence documents, hid the papers in her pantyhose as she left work and then put them in the mail to The Intercept. The report they…
What is Ryuk? In the autumn fall of 2018, a modified version of Hermes ransomware was discovered: Ryuk. Both Hermes and Ryuk have similar characteristics. They identify and encrypt network devices along with deleting shadow copies stored on the endpoints. The only difference is how they create the encryption keys. While Hermes uses…
Scientist says aliens in UFOs might be Earthlings from the future
We’ve been chasing ET for millennia with nothing concrete to show for it. Aside from conspiracy theory claims that the US government has an alien spacecraft hidden away somewhere, the search for alien life has been a complete bust. Michael Masters, a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Technological University…
