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Current and likely future cyber-attack trends were highlighted by Sarah Armstrong-Smith, chief security advisor, Microsoft Cybersecurity Solutions Group (UK) during the BankSec 2024 virtual conference. Through its analysis, Microsoft found that phishing and business email compromise (BEC)...

Government agencies have issued warnings about the fresh spate of attacks, apparently from nation-state actors against major security vendors. Last week FireEye disclosed that it had spotted an attack from nation state actors looking for data on government clients, where attackers were able to...

Standard Chartered Bank customers were recently left shocked when they received transaction alerts through SMS and emails for withdrawals of around Rs. 50,000 from their bank accounts without any action on their part. There were a few bank customers who did not even get any report through SMS or...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has suffered a cyber-attack which led to the compromise of documents related to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, currently being deployed in the UK. The agency itself only issued a very brief statement, saying it could not provide more details while an...

A California man who admitted hacking into the computer system of Japanese gaming giant Nintendo and leaking proprietary data has been sentenced to three years in prison. Palmdale resident Ryan S. Hernandez, now aged 21, was still a minor when he and an associate used a phishing technique to...

A couple years ago we did a tutorial on Hacking Tutorials on how to install the popular vulnerability assessment tool OpenVAS on Kali Linux. We’ve covered the installation process on Kali Linux and running a basic scan on the Metasploitable 2 virtual machine to identify vulnerabilities. In this...

Vodafone and 7 other telecom operators agreed to provide EC geolocation data from their subscribers' mobile devices. Telecommunications companies Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Telenor, Telia and A1 Telekom Austria agreed to provide the European Commission...

North Korea’s offensive cyber-program evolved from one of power projection to one which is “dual-focused” and going after international economic targets. Speaking at Black Hat Europe 2020, Crowdstrike researchers Jason Rivera and Josh Burgess discussed how North Korea had advanced its strategy...

Identity and access management will be crucial to securing workforces going forward, according to a panel speaking of experts during the Wallix Live: The State of Security event. The speakers acknowledged the “herculean” effort of many organizations to successfully roll out mass remote working...

Just over three-quarters of cybersecurity professionals have said they expect to see an increase in DNS-related security threats over the next few weeks. In preparation, three in five (59%) have altered their DNS security methods in the run up to the holiday season, according to a new report...

Over 45 million medical imaging files are freely accessible on unprotected servers, according to a new investigation by CybelAngel. The researchers discovered that a huge range of sensitive medical images, including X-rays and CT scans, can be accessed without the requirement for a username and...

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Rapid7 has announced the acquisition of Kubernetes security provider Alcide.IO as part of efforts to enhance its cloud native security platform. The deal is worth approximately $50m, subject to certain adjustments. The announcement has come amid growing use of Kubernetes by developers in order...

A professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan has been charged with first degree sexual misconduct. Peter Chen was arraigned on January 27 and given a personal recognizance bond. The 55-year-old professor has taught at the university for 27 years. Dean of the...

Police in Greece are to be issued new devices that will allow them to carry out real-time facial recognition and fingerprint identification while out on the beat. The plan to disseminate the new technology is part of the 4.5 million euro "Smart Policing" project announced in 2017 that aims to...

A quarter of zero-day exploits discovered last year could have been avoided if vendors had taken a more methodical and comprehensive approach to patching, according to Google. Project Zero security researcher, Maddie Stone, argued in a blog post yesterday that 25% of zero-days spotted in 2020...

A leading US transportation business has become the latest corporate victim to lose millions in a ransomware attack, according to a regulatory filing. Tennessee-headquartered Forward Air describes itself as the leading provider of ground transportation and logistics for North American air...

Remote desktop protocol (RDP) attacks increase by 768% between Q1 and Q4 last year, fuelled by the shift to remote working, according to ESET’s Q4 2020 Threat Report. However, a slower rate of growth was observed in the final quarter of the year, indicating that organizations have enhanced...

The founder of New Zealand cybersecurity company Emsisoft has issued an apology over a configuration error that led to a system data breach. News that one of the company's test systems had been compromised was shared on February 3 by Emsisoft founder and managing director Christian Mairoll. In...

A researcher claims to have hacked into the internal systems of major companies including Apple and Microsoft using a novel supply chain attack. Alex Biran created malicious node packages and uploaded them to the npm registry under unclaimed names. The node packages collected information...