September 28, 2021 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) on Monday announced it would set up a $1.9 billion plan to reimburse mostly rural U.S. telecommunications companies for removing network equipment from Chinese companies deemed national security threats more...
September 28, 2021 A LastPass survey found that 65% of respondents continue to use passwords for different accounts despite 92% of them acknowledging such action as being risky. The survey also revealed that 45% of respondents did not more...
September 28, 2021 The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently announced that it would phase out its HTTPS Everywhere plugin beginning in 2022. The plugin automatically updates HTTP connections to HTTPS. While many factors have influenced the EFF's move to more...
September 28, 2021 Bandwidth.com recently suffered a DDoS attack after the company reported unexpected outages in its voice and messaging services on September 25. While the voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services company has released a continuous update more...
September 28, 2021 A new malware called "FoggyWeb" is being used by the Nobelium hacking group, the attackers behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack of 2020. The malware, a passive and highly targeted backdoor that abuses the Security more...
September 27, 2021 The illegal marketplace AlphaBay has resurfaced four years after it was shut down by the U.S. Department of Justice. The site is now run by the site's former second commander after the 2017 shutdown, a more...
September 27, 2021 Stanley Black & Decker, through its partnership with TrueU will now provides password-free protection to 10,000 workers through TruU's application-wide product. The system, called TruIdentity Cloud, uses a "seamless presence-based identity using environmental and biometric more...
September 24, 2021 Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a ransomware campaign that draws on technologies used by nation-state hackers and cyberespionage. This was revealed when cyber criminals tried to launch a ransomware attack against an unnamed company for product more...
September 24, 2021 Synthetic data is useful only if it is accurate, said Microsoft Research Director Darren Edge. "You can generate synthetic data with perfect privacy but zero utility by sampling random values from random distributions." Useful synthetic more...
September 24, 2021 ExpressVPN employees expressed concern about the company's decision to offer a top role to Dan Gericke, one of the company's employees who admitted working on behalf of the United Arab Emirates' foreign intelligence agency to more...
