Nobody planned for the current situation, but because of COVID-19, all types of education, all around the world, whether K–12, university, or continuing professional education, have at least partially moved learning to the Internet. With summer breaks coming to an end, the issue of how online learning can be show more ...
Romance or confidence scams drew nearly 20,000 complaints back in 2019, with losses totaling almost half of billion dollars, according to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).
Cybercrime is destined to rise as workplaces move online and the economy slumps due to the pandemic. Moreover, 5G will give criminals the ability to seamlessly scan and exploit vulnerable networks.
It's unclear at this time what damage has been done but it does not appear any data was stolen. Staff was forced to shut down the entire network to remove the threat and restore the systems.
Phishing has two components: a bait, which is a message, and a hook-- the malicious URL. Now, the bait or the message can be served via email, WhatsApp message, SMS, or any form of electronic message.
Turkish-speaking cybercriminals are sending Instagram users seemingly legitimate messages from the social media company, with the aim of stealing their Instagram and email credentials.
The npm security team has removed the JavaScript library “fallguys” from the npm portal because it was containing a malicious code used to steal sensitive files from a users’ browser and Discord app.
The New Zealand stock market was hit by a fifth day of cyber attacks on Monday, crashing its website, but maintained trading after switching to a contingency plan for release of market announcements.
The breach was discovered when the organization discovered "an unknown party attempted to redirect funds from within Utah Pathology," according to a press release from the company.
The e-commerce arm of payment giant Paytm has suffered a data breach according to US-based cyber research firm Cyble, after a hacker group targeted the company’s PayTM Mall database.
Recent spam campaigns used messages with malicious Word documents, or links to them, disguised as invoices, shipping information, COVID-19 info, resumes, financial documents, or scanned documents.
Sendgrid's parent firm, Twilio, tells security blogger Brian Krebs, that the company is in the process to require multifactor authentication with all its accounts.
New security capabilities designed for SMEs allow IT admins to apply baseline security settings across an organization.
Cisco was forced to spend more than $2,400,000 in customer refunds and employee time needed to restore the damage caused by this incident.
In addition to targeting payment processing systems on vulnerable websites, digital skimming actors are likely to make extra profit by selling customized sniffers on dark web forums.
Iranian cyberespionage group Charming Kitten impersonates journalists on WhatsApp and LinkedIn to infect targets in government, defense, military, and diplomatic entities.
Web browser and operating system developers, such as Apple, Microsoft, Firefox, and Google, will no longer consider 2-year TLS/SSL certificates issued on or after September 1st to be valid.
The fellowship program will offer students a chance to work on real-world issues facing infrastructure and help develop the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
Student Peter Dantini discovered the notarized version of Shlayer while navigating to the homepage of the popular open-source Mac development tool Homebrew.
Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the OpenSIS software family which is a student information management system for K-12 students.
Thousands of stolen Fortnite accounts are selling like hotcakes in underground marketplaces, amassing around $1.2 million a year for cybercriminals, a new report shows.
Microsoft has published a new security baseline for Microsoft Edge and one of the new rules is titled “Allow certificates signed using SHA-1 when issued by local trust anchors.”
Scans of 54,000 Australian driver's licenses were exposed in an open Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket, according to a security researcher, but it's unclear if those affected will be notified.
Cisco's IOS XR Network OS is deployed on multiple router platforms including NCS 540 & 560, NCS 5500, 8000, and ASR 9000 series routers.
QBot Trojan operators are using new tactics to hijack legitimate email conversations and steal personal and financial data from the victims.
Not only is the sector struggling to cope with the pandemic-induced economic crisis, but threats from state-sponsored attackers and supply-chains attacks have added additional worries.
The well-known modular banking trojan is used by various threat actors to infiltrate targeted networks and steal information from financial institutions located in the U.S.
The CISA and the FBI issued an alert warning financial institutions of BeagleBoyz who have attempted to steal nearly $2 billion since 2015 by rendering financial institutions’ systems inoperable.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-3581-01 - Git is a distributed revision control system with a decentralized architecture. As opposed to centralized version control systems with a client-server model, Git ensures that each working copy of a Git repository is an exact copy with complete revision history. This not only show more ...
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202008-24 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenJDK, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code. Versions less than 8.262_p01:8 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202008-23 - A vulnerability in chrony may allow a privileged attacker to cause data loss via a symlink. Versions less than 3.5.1 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202008-22 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in targetcli-fb, the worst of which could result in privilege escalation. Versions less than 2.1.53 are affected.
Apache2 suffers from an incorrect handling of large requests issue in mod_proxy_uwsgi.
CMS Made Simple version 2.2.14 suffers from an authenticated remote shell upload vulnerability.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202008-21 - A vulnerability in Kleopatra allows arbitrary execution of code. Versions less than 20.04.3-r1 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202008-20 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GPL Ghostscript, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code. Versions less than 9.52 are affected.
Fuel CMS version 1.4.8 suffers from an authenticated remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202008-19 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in BIND, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition. Versions less than 9.16.6 are affected.
Sifter is a osint, recon, and vulnerability scanner. It combines a plethora of tools within different module sets in order to quickly perform recon tasks, check network firewalling, enumerate remote and local hosts, and scan for the blue vulnerabilities within Microsoft systems and if unpatched, exploits them.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2020-3585-01 - Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform CD20 is a platform for Java applications based on the WildFly application runtime. This release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform CD20 includes bug fixes and enhancements. Issues addressed include XML injection, show more ...
