RBI Tightens Noose On Digital Payment Frauds
Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s apex financial institution, has issued new directions to bolster cybersecurity and resilience of the digital payment ecosystem in…
Month: July 2024
Can Negotiations Yield Success in Ransomware Attacks
In the escalating world of cybercrime, ransomware attacks have become a pervasive threat, affecting businesses of all sizes and industries. When faced with a ransomware…
Leveraging dynamic configuration for seamless and compliant software changes
In this Help Net Security interview, Konrad Niemiec, CEO and Founder of Lekko, discusses the benefits of dynamic configuration in preventing system outages and enabling…
What CISOs need to keep CEOs (and themselves) out of jail
Former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan, who was convicted for attempting to cover up a data breach Uber suffered in 2016, recently posited that in the…
Meta Settles for $1.4 Billion with Texas Over Illegal Biometric Data Collection
Jul 31, 2024Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Social Media Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with the…
Secretive: Open-source app for storing and managing SSH keys in the Secure Enclave
Secretive is an open-source, user-friendly app designed to store and manage SSH keys within the Secure Enclave. Typically, SSH keys are stored on disk with…
Dark Angels Ransomware Received $75 Million
Cybersecurity firm Zscaler has revealed that the Dark Angels ransomware group received an unprecedented $75 million ransom payment from a single victim in a shocking…
Western Sydney Uni attackers accessed Isilon storage directories over eight months – Security – Storage
Western Sydney University has revealed that attackers had access to its Isilon storage infrastructure and 580TB of data for over eight months. The university said…
OneDrive Phishing Campaign Guides Users To Paste PowerShell Scripts
A new phishing campaign targeting Microsoft OneDrive users has been observed, employing social engineering tactics to trick victims into executing malicious PowerShell scripts. The campaign…
Customs And Border Protection Issues Biometric Opt-Out Guide
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has released a guide detailing how travelers can opt out of biometric facial recognition technology at airports…
Colonial First State finds at least three use cases for Azure OpenAI – Finance – Cloud – Software
Colonial First State has identified at least three use cases for the Azure OpenAI service in work with Microsoft and Avanade. Colonial First State’s Jeroen…
Microsoft DDoS defence error amplifies attack impact on Azure services – Security – Cloud
Microsoft said an error in how it had implemented DDoS defences contributed to global issues experienced with some Azure and Microsoft 365 services overnight. The…