July 7, 2022 A deal is being worked out initiated by Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok and the Biden administration that would "fully safeguard" the app in the U.S. and dispel fears about the Chinese government accessing Americans' data. more...
July 7, 2022 Apple is launching a new security feature to safeguard high-risk users from spyware cyber-attacks. Lockdown Mode will be made available in 2-3 months with the next operating system across all of the tech giant's iPhones, more...
July 6, 2022 The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first group of encryption tools it believes will withstand the assault of a future quantum computer, a decision welcomed by the Canadian government’s more...
July 6, 2022 Despite investing money into cybersecurity, many Canadian organizations — and their global peers — admit they still have visibility problems into their IT systems, which complicates their ability to secure vital data. According to a more...
July 6, 2022 Cybersecurity experts still can’t confirm the claims of a person selling what they say are databases of stolen information of 1 billion Chinese residents from the Shanghai police department. According to the Associated Press, the more...
July 6, 2022 AstraLocker operator has announced plans to shut down the ransomware operation. The ransomware developer has also submitted a ZIP archive with AstraLocker decryptors to the VirusTotal malware analysis platform. "It was fun, and fun things more...
July 6, 2022 A new ransomware operation uncovered by MalwareHunterTeam, has the ability to encrypt both Windows and Linux VMWare ESXi servers in attacks on corporate networks. The ransomware is simply identified as RedAlert or N13V. According to researchers, more...
July 6, 2022 A phishing test failure, the AstraLocker ransomware developer quits and a Wi-Fi warning to those sitting in airports. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, July 6th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity more...
July 6, 2022 Meta has sued Ekrem Ateş for using automated Instagram accounts to collect information on more than 360,000 Instagram users. Meta has also sued a scraping-for-hire firm, Octopus. Octopus, a U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese multinational more...
July 6, 2022 Hackers are using newly detected malware to backdoor Microsoft Exchange servers of government and military organizations from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The malware, named SessionManager by Kaspersky researchers, who first detected it more...
