August 2, 2022 U.S. government intelligence employees should be banned for life from working for “foreign offensive operators” as one means of fighting commercial spyware, a member of a Canadian internet research group has told Congress. John Scott-Railton, more...
July 20, 2022 An anonymous service that can get you hacked, infected online restaurant platforms found, a Mac backdoor discovered, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday July 20th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on more...
July 20, 2022 An anonymous service that can get you hacked, infected online restaurant platforms found, a Mac backdoor discovered, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday July 20th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on more...
July 20, 2022 An anonymous service that can get you hacked, infected online restaurant platforms found, a Mac backdoor discovered, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday July 20th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on more...
July 8, 2022 Microsoft has rescinded its earlier announcement of automatically blocking VBA macros on downloaded documents by default until further notice. The tech giant is mum on the reason behind this decision and has yet to make more...
July 7, 2022 Hotel giant Marriott International announced that it was hit by yet another data breach after an unknown hacker breached one of its properties and took 20GB of files. The hackers only managed to breach one more...
July 7, 2022 Hacking groups and ransomware operations are transitioning from Cobalt Strike to the newer Brute Ratel post-exploitation toolkit to avoid detection by EDR and antivirus solutions. While Cobalt Strike is a legitimate software, hackers have been more...
July 8, 2022 A number of states, including Louisiana, Nebraska and Tennessee, are battling cyberattacks that have made it nearly impossible to pay unemployment benefits. According to multiple sources, the company that administers unemployment benefits for 40 states more...
July 8, 2022 The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected four encryption algorithms to withstand future quantum computer attacks. The four encryption algorithms include CRYSTALS-Kyber, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON and SPHINCS+. The four algorithms more...
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...
