August 12, 2021 Brazil's government recently announced the members of the National Council for the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy (CNPD), a government agency critical to implementing the country's privacy policies. The council is responsible for the more...
August 12, 2021 Numerous COVID-19 vaccine verifications are being sold on the dark web at ever-lower prices according to a report by CheckPoint Research. Researchers reported that prices for EU Digital COVID-19 certificates as well as CDC and more...
August 11, 2021 Microsoft revealed that it has revived the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) app used by system admins to manage multiple remote desktop connections after it was stopped last year due to an important severity information more...
August 11, 2021 Microsoft released security updates for 44 vulnerabilities in the August issue of Microsoft Patch Tuesday, seven of which were classified as critical and 37 as important. 13 of the published patches target a vulnerability in more...
August 10, 2021 Apple has defended its new technology, which searches user's phones for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) after it was heavily criticized by customers and privacy campaigners because the technology could be a "backdoor" to spy more...
August 10, 2021 Microsoft reveals a ransomware detection system for its Azure customers which uses machine learning to find possible ransomware attacks and alert security teams. According to Microsoft's Sylvie Liu, Azure worked with the Microsoft Threat Intelligence more...
August 10, 2021 A new Android threat called FlyTrap by researchers has been victimizing Facebook accounts in more than 140 countries by stealing session cookies. FlyTrap activities rely on simple social engineering tactics to trick victims into using more...
August 10, 2021 Cybercriminals are fuelling a new criminal carding marketplace by posting one million credit cards stolen between 2018 and 2019 on hacking forums. Carding refers to the trade and use of stolen credit cards by point-of-sale more...
August 10, 2021 The average ransom payment in the first half of 2021 reached a record $570,000, an 82% increase from 2020, according to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. A report by the threat team of Palo Alto more...
August 9, 2021 Tenable discovered a vulnerability on April 26 that is actively exploited by threat actors and is tracked as CVE-2021-20090. The vulnerability affects home routers running Arcadyan firmware, which in turn paves the way for attackers more...
