New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine – Krebs on Security
Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially…
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View all →Elon Musk and the Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers
I woke up Friday morning to the message I’d been expecting: “Your account, @Justin_Ling has been locked for violating the Twitter Rules.” Below was the offending…
NIST announced that it is time to stop using Secure Hash Technique-1 (SHA-1), a 27 year old vulnerable encryption algorithm
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States has announced that it is time to stop using Secure Hash Technique-1 (SHA-1),…
Career Profile: Anand Prasad, Deloitte
Name: Anand Prasad Affiliation: Deloitte Editor of Cybersecurity Magazine Can you briefly introduce your current role in cybersecurity? My role includes understanding security gaps, needs…
KmsdBot Botnet Suspected of Being Used as DDoS-for-Hire Service
Dec 20, 2022Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Cyber Attacks An ongoing analysis of the KmsdBot botnet has raised the possibility that it’s a DDoS-for-hire service offered…
WDF Sound – wdf.exe – Program Information
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Vice Ransomware Group Uses Custom Ransomware
Cybersecurity analysts at SentinelOne security firm have recently identified that the Vice Society ransomware gang has switched to custom ransomware which is dubbed “PolyVice.” There…
How to become a penetration tester: Part 2 – ‘Mr Hacking’ John Jackson on the virtue of ‘endless curiosity’
Marine Corps engineer-turned offensive security expert offers careers advice and his best and worst experiences John Jackson has been working in cybersecurity for less than…
#MIWIC2022: Camilla Currin, Trend Micro
Organised by Eskenzi PR in media partnership with the IT Security Guru, the Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards aim to shed light on the…
FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked – Krebs on Security
InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector,…
Iran’s Internet Blackouts Are Sabotaging Its Own Economy
As internet shutdowns, platform blocking, and content filtering become increasingly common levers for authoritarian control around the world, Iran has presented an especially dramatic case…
Epic Games creator of the Fortnite, GTA to pay $520 million fine for violating Children’s Privacy and dupe millions of players into making unintentional purchases
Epic Games, with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, is responsible for creating some of the most well-known and critically acclaimed video games and game engines,…