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  • "Annual Cost of Child Identity Fraud Almost $1Bn"

    Researchers at Javelin Strategy & Research discovered that the annual cost of child identity theft and fraud in the United States is nearly $1bn.  The researchers put out a report titled "2021 Child Identity Fraud."  The researchers…

  • "Holiday Shopping Disruption Beckons as Retail Bot Attacks Surge 13%"

    Security experts at Imperva are warning of potential disruption to the upcoming holiday shopping season after recording a double-digit year-on-year increase in bot-driven cyberattacks so far in 2021.  The researchers found that half (57%) of attacks…

  • "Free Tool Scans Web Servers for Vulnerability to HTTP Header-Smuggling Attacks"

    Daniel Thatcher, a researcher and penetration tester at Intruder, has developed a technique for testing and identifying how HTTP/HTTPS headers could be used by malicious threat actors to sneak code into back-end servers. Thatcher will share his findings…

  • "Hackers-for-Hire Drive Evolution of Threat Landscape"

    The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has released its annual report on the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. The 9th annual ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) report covers April 20 to July 2021. The report provides recommendations…

  • "A Cybersecurity Researcher Explains How To Trust Your Instincts To Foil Phishing Attacks"

    Phishing emails try to trick people into doing things they would not normally do, such as transferring money, running malicious programs, sharing their password, and more. Cybersecurity professionals often blame people for not noticing that phishing…

  • "FBI Publishes IOCs for Hello Kitty Ransomware"

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has published a flash alert to share details on the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with the Hello Kitty ransomware, which is also known as FiveHands.…

  • "California Health Network Reports Data Breach"

    Cybercriminals may have accessed the protected health information (PHI) of hundreds of thousands of patients of a network of community health centers based in California.  Nonprofit Community Medical Centers (CMC) primarily serve low-income patients…

  • "Utilities Face Growing Global Cyber Threat Landscape"

    The industrial cybersecurity firm released a new report, titled "Global Electrics Cyber Threat Perspective," which draws further attention to the increasingly dangerous cyber threat landscape that is being faced by the global electric utility sector. The…

  • "Distributed Protocol Underpinning Cloud Computing Automatically Determined Safe and Secure"

    Researchers at the University of Michigan have automated a technique called formal verification, which is a step towards ensuring the safety, security, and proper functioning of protocols implemented to dictate how networked services operate. The system…

  • "This Sneaky Trick Could Allow Attackers To Hide ‘Invisible’ Vulnerabilities in Code"

    Developers using the Rust programming language in a project are advised to check for differences between reviewed code and the compiled code that has been output. The Rust Security Response Working Group (WG) has brought attention to a security…

  • "BlackMatter Group Speeds Up Data Theft with New Tool"

    Security researchers at Symantec have discovered a new data exfiltration tool designed to accelerate information theft for ransomware groups using the BlackMatter variant.  Dubbed “Exmatter,” the tool is designed to steal specific file types from…

  • "Small Businesses Pay Up to $1M to Recover from Breaches"

    Researchers from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) conducted a new study and found that over half (58%) of US small businesses have suffered a security or data breach.  Of those hit by a breach, three-quarters experienced at least two, and a…