Cybersecurity News
As Threat Hunting Matures, Malware Labs Emerge
By leveraging their analysis outputs, security pros can update detection rules engines and establish a stronger security posture in the process.Cyber Insurance Firms Start Tapping Out as Ransomware Continues to Rise
A global insurance carrier refuses to write new ransomware policies in France, while insurers rewrite policies. Are we heading toward a day when ransomware incidents become uninsurable?FBI identifies 16 Conti ransomware attacks striking US healthcare, first responders
One of Conti’s latest victims is Ireland’s health service.Rom‑con: How romance fraud targets older people and how to avoid it
Online dating scams often follow the same script – here’s what senior citizens should watch out for and how their younger relatives can help them avoid falling victim
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FBI intelligence analyst indicted for theft of cybersecurity, counterterrorism documents
The former agent held top-level clearance privileges.Forwarding Emails
When you forward an email to others or copy new people to an email thread, review all the content in the entire email and make sure the information contained in it is suitable for everyone. It is very easy to forward emails to others, not realizing there is highly sensitive information in the bottom of the email that people should not have access to.FBI Issues Conti Ransomware Alert as Attacks Target Healthcare
Officials have identified at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks targeting US healthcare and first responder networks.Data in Danger Amid New IT Challenges
Survey finds new threats due to the pandemic make managing enterprise cyber-risk even more challenging.Cloud Security Blind Spots: Where They Are, And How to Protect Them
Security experts discuss oft-neglected areas of cloud security and offer guidance to businesses working to strengthen their security posture.
DarkSide Getting Taken to ‘Hackers’ Court’ For Not Paying Affiliates
A shadow court system for hackers shows how professional ransomware gangs have become.
Building SIEM for Today’s Threat Landscape
Sivan Tehila, cybersecurity strategist at Perimeter 81, discusses the elements involved in creating a modern SIEM strategy for remote work and cloud-everything.
How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap
One of the oldest scams around -- the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data -- is on the rise, the FBI warns. Here's the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led to more than 100 people getting duped, and one almost-victim who decided the job offer was too-good-to-be-true.WP Statistics Bug Allows Attackers to Lift Data from WordPress Sites
The plugin, installed on hundreds of thousands of sites, allows anyone to filch database info without having to be logged in.
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
How stalkerware puts the stalkers' own data at risk – Watch out for FluBot – Building security into critical infrastructure
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A Russian Doll review – a data-disinformation troll keeps us hooked
Barn theatre, Cirencester
Rachel Redford shines as a student recruited to mess with British heads, in a joint production with the Arcola theatre
‘Who owns your data?” asks Masha, the tortured voice at the centre of this monologue. Issues of data privacy and misuse are being increasingly raised but rarely show the inner workings of a Russian web brigade that orchestrates disinformation campaigns through anonymous online commentary.
That is what Masha (Rachel Redford) does in Cat Goscovitch’s illuminating drama, based on a true story and co-produced by the Barn and Arcola theatres. She is an English literature student turned troll in St Petersburg. Once a lover of Emily Brontë books, she is now a kind of data apparatchik, paid to gather information on Brits online and then use it to “fuck with their heads” during the EU referendum campaign of 2016.
A Russian Doll was streamed for the press from the Barn theatre, Cirencester, where it runs until 12 June. Then at the Arcola theatre’s Arcola Outside venue in London.
Continue reading...The Changing Face of Cybersecurity Awareness
In the two decades since cybersecurity awareness programs emerged, they've been transformed from a good idea to a business imperative.The Edge Poll: Moving On
During the stresses of the pandemic, did you ever consider quitting security?Email Campaign Spreads StrRAT Fake-Ransomware RAT
Microsoft Security discovered malicious PDFs that download Java-based StrRAT, which can steal credentials and change file names but doesn't actually encrypt.