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  • "54% of Senior Executives Struggling to Keep up with Threat Landscape"

    According to a new report by Fujitsu, more than half (54%) of senior executives have struggled to adapt security policies to changes in the threat landscape and working practices. Fujitsu conducted a survey in September 2020. The findings from the survey…

  • "GitHub Discloses Details of Easy-to-Exploit Linux Vulnerability"

    GitHub disclosed details about an easy-to-exploit Linux vulnerability classified as high in severity and tracked as CVE-2021-3560. The exploitation of this flaw can enable privileges to be escalated to root on a targeted system. Additionally, the flaw…

  • "McDonald’s Suffers Data Breach"

    McDonald's was impacted by a data breach that affected customers and employees in South Korea and Taiwan and company operations in the United States.  The breach, which was first reported Friday, was the result of a cyberattack. Hackers who broke…

  • "Many Mobile Apps Intentionally Using Insecure Connections for Sending Data"

    A new study by Symantec analyzed hundreds of thousands of Android and iOS apps released to Google Play and Apple's App Store between 2017 and 2021. The study's goal was to identify apps breaking the green padlock, which indicates a secure communication…

  • "Can Machine Learning Help Detect Zero-Day Malware?"

    Research has been conducted on the use of Machine Learning (ML) models to improve static malware analysis to detect zero-day exploits as well as untracked malware. The study was performed through a fourth-month academic-private sector partnership between…

  • "What's Behind Rising Ransomware Costs?"

    The U.S. division of the global meat company JBS made the decision to pay $11 million to the operators behind the ransomware attack launched against its facilities in order to prevent any potential risk for its customers. The company also revealed that…

  • "Texas to Publish Data Breach Notifications"

    Lawmakers in Texas have passed a bill requiring notices to be published online of any data breaches involving the personal information of 250 or more Lone Star State residents. The unanimously passed House Bill 3746, which amends the Texas Business and…

  • "Gaming Giant EA Suffers Major Data Breach"

    Gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) have discovered that hackers have stolen a wealth of data, including game source code and tools for several popular games. The hackers behind the attack have advertised a total of 780GB of data for sale on a dark web…

  • "Fastly's Global Internet Meltdown Could Be a Sign of Things to Come"

    Many popular websites, including Amazon, Reddit, PayPal, Spotify, the Guardian, the New York Times, and more, faced an hour-long outage on the morning of June 8. The issue was traced back to the cloud computing company Fastly, which provides a Content…

  • "Mystery Malware Steals 26M Passwords from Millions of PCs"

    Researchers with NordLocker have discovered a 1.2-terabyte batch of data containing 26 million sets of login credentials, 1.1 million unique email addresses, over 2 billion browser cookies, and 6.6 million files. The massive trove of sensitive data…

  • "Meat Company JBS Confirms It Paid $11M Ransom in Cyberattack"

    On May 31, the world's largest meat processing company JBS confirmed that it faced a ransomware attack. The attack affected some servers supporting the company's operations in North America and Australia, disrupting production for several days. The…

  • "'PrivacyMic': For a Smart Speaker That Doesn't Eavesdrop"

    One of the challenges associated with smart home systems is that they are always on and listening. This raises privacy concerns because such systems could be streaming all of a user's audio back to some servers that could be used for anything,…