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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...