Cybersecurity News


Critical CISO Initiatives for the Second Half of 2021

Critical CISO Initiatives for the Second Half of 2021 Saryu Nayyar, CEO at Gurucul, goes over what defenses CISOs need now, and how and why to prioritize the options.
28 June 2021

In Memoriam: John McAfee

What was it like to work for, and be friends with, the larger-than-life technology entrepreneur back when he helped shape the computer security industry?

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28 June 2021

The Role of Encryption in Protecting LGBTQ+ Community Members

The Internet is a vital tool that helps LGBTQ+ community members communicate without fear of persecution -- and strong encryption is a critical part of this equation.
28 June 2021

Buckland: ministerial offices should be swept for hidden cameras – video

Buckland: ministerial offices should be swept for hidden cameras – video

The justice secretary has signalled that ministerial security may have been compromised as he called for regular security sweeps for cameras in ministers’ offices after the Matt Hancock scandal. Hancock resigned as health secretary after CCTV footage from his departmental office showing him kissing his senior aide was leaked to the press

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28 June 2021

Own an old WD My Book Live? Disconnect it from the internet right now

Active attacks are indiscriminately wiping user devices.
28 June 2021

Hancock CCTV footage: security may have been breached, minister says

Hancock CCTV footage: security may have been breached, minister says

Justice secretary Robert Buckland calls for regular sweeps for hidden cameras in government offices

The justice secretary, Robert Buckland, has signalled that ministerial security may have been compromised as he called for regular security sweeps for cameras in ministers’ offices after the Matt Hancock scandal.

Hancock resigned as health secretary on Saturday following the leak of CCTV images from his departmental office showing him kissing his senior aide Gina Coladangelo.

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28 June 2021

GitHub bug bounties: payouts surge past $1.5 million mark

GitHub says that 2020 was the “busiest year yet” in vulnerability disclosure.
28 June 2021

Ministry of Defence employee charged in child pornography case

The charges stem from his participation in the “PedoPub” web forum.
28 June 2021

John McAfee obituary

John McAfee obituary Controversial antivirus software pioneer who entered US politics and became a fugitive from justice

As the inventor of the antivirus software that bears his name, John McAfee, who has died aged 75 after apparently taking his own life in a Spanish prison, turned paranoia into a fortune. He was one of the first successful self-promoting celebrity millionaires whose power and media exposure provide untold influence in the US.

Moving from computer savant to spiritual guru, he then began an extended second act in Belize, where his outsized lifestyle fuelled his own personal paranoia, and led to his becoming the leading suspect in the murder of a beachfront neighbour.

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27 June 2021

Mercedes-Benz Customer Data Flies Out the Window

Mercedes-Benz Customer Data Flies Out the Window For over three years, a vendor was recklessly driving the cloud-stored data of luxury-car-owning customers and wannabe buyers.
25 June 2021

New CPU Baseline for Windows 11 Will Ensure Better Security, Microsoft Says

Redmond's latest OS will run only on systems with TPM 2.0 chips.
25 June 2021

PS3 Players Ban: Latest Victims of Surging Attacks on Gaming Industry  

PS3 Players Ban: Latest Victims of Surging Attacks on Gaming Industry   Every Sony PlayStation 3 ID out there was compromised, provoking bans of legit players on the network.
25 June 2021

MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a previously unknown critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.
25 June 2021

FIN7 ‘Pen Tester’ Headed to Jail Amid $1B in Payment-Card Losses

FIN7 ‘Pen Tester’ Headed to Jail Amid $1B in Payment-Card Losses One of the Carbanak cybergang's highest-level hackers is destined to serve seven years while making $2.5 million in restitution payments.
25 June 2021

Amazon Acquires Secure Messaging Platform Wickr

AWS CISO Stephen Schmidt says the acquisition is strategic amid the proliferation of remote work.
25 June 2021

Data Privacy Is in 23andMe CSO's DNA

Data Privacy Is in 23andMe CSO's DNA How serious is the company about safeguarding its customers and their genetic information? "We're hiding data even from ourselves," says the biotech and genetic testing company's head of security.
25 June 2021

Cisco ASA Bug Now Actively Exploited as PoC Drops

Cisco ASA Bug Now Actively Exploited as PoC Drops In-the-wild XSS attacks have commenced against the security appliance (CVE-2020-3580), as researchers publish exploit code on Twitter.
25 June 2021

My Book Live Users Wake Up to Wiped Devices, Active RCE Attacks

My Book Live Users Wake Up to Wiped Devices, Active RCE Attacks “I am totally screwed,” one user wailed after finding years of data nuked. Western Digital advised yanking the NAS storage devices offline ASAP: There's an exploit.
25 June 2021

School's Out for Summer, but Don't Close the Book on Cybersecurity Training

Strengthening their security posture should be at the top of school IT departments' summer to-do list.
25 June 2021

High-Level FIN7 Member Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

Andrii Kolpakov, who served as a high-level pentester for the criminal group, was also ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution.
25 June 2021