December 23, 2021 EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, a database of submissions submitted by companies and organizations as required by law, is back in operation early Wednesday after technical problems. The U.S. Security and more...
December 22, 2021 Although a security update has been released since December 7, 2021 to fix two SEO WordPress plugins, recent revelations from download statistics showed that more than 820,000 websites using the plugin have not yet installed more...
December 22, 2021 PYSA ransomware group (aka Mespinoza) contributed in no small measure to the increase in the use of double extortion tools during ransomware attacks. While attacks on government organizations have increased by 400%, the PYSA Ransomware more...
December 22, 2021 In a recent report by Group-IB, security researchers uncovered scam campaigns that cart away an estimate of $80 million monthly from 10 million people in 91 countries. The scammers managed this dubious trick by faking more...
December 21, 2021 Synthetic identity fraud is the term used to refer to the merging of factual information with fake information to create a unique identity that cybercriminals can freely exploit. An example of factual information commonly used more...
December 21, 2021 The National Crime Agency (NCA) of the U.K. has donated around 225 million unique passwords to a cybersecurity project designed to protect users from hackers. The list is now part of the free online service more...
December 20, 2021 A law firm representing four affiliated online sporting goods websites has confirmed a cyberattack against the companies. The cyberattack resulted in the theft of credit cards for 1,813,224 customers. Information compromised during the attack includes more...
December 20, 2021 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, via FTC Chair Lina Khan, confirmed that the commission is considering writing rules to address some prevalent issues. These issues include the fight against data privacy abuses, poor online security more...
December 17, 2021 Cloudflare has recently had widespread latency issues with its network and services, causing websites to load slowly and customers to struggle with performance issues when accessing the customer dashboard. The problems started at 3 PM more...
December 17, 2021 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) has set December 24 as the deadline for security patches to be applied by federal agencies. These and other security advisories became necessary due to the growing importance more...
