Cybersecurity News


Securely Disposing Mobile Devices

Do you plan on giving away or selling one of your older mobile devices? Make sure you wipe or reset your device before disposing of it. If you don't, the next person who owns it will have access to all of your accounts and personal information.
29 April 2021

Adobe Open Sources Tool for Anomaly Research

The One-Stop Anomaly Shop (OSAS) project packages machine-learning algorithms into a Docker container for finding anomalies in security log data.
29 April 2021

Experian API Exposed Credit Scores of Most Americans

Big-three consumer credit bureau Experian just fixed a weakness with a partner website that let anyone look up the credit score of tens of millions of Americans just by supplying their name and mailing address, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Experian says it has plugged the data leak, but the researcher who reported the finding says he fears the same weakness may be present at countless other lending websites that work with the credit bureau.
28 April 2021

FluBot Malware's Rapid Spread May Soon Hit US Phones

The FluBot Android malware has spread throughout several European countries through an SMS package delivery scam.
28 April 2021

74% of Financial Institutions See Spike in COVID-Related Threats

Financial losses have also increased among organizations in the last year, with the average cost reaching $720,000.
28 April 2021

Microsoft Office SharePoint Targeted With High-Risk Phish, Ransomware Attacks

Microsoft Office SharePoint Targeted With High-Risk Phish, Ransomware Attacks SharePoint servers are being picked at with high-risk, legitimate-looking, branded phish messages and preyed on by a ransomware gang using an old bug.
28 April 2021

FBI Works With 'Have I Been Pwned' to Notify Emotet Victims

Officials shared 4.3 million email addresses with the HIBP website to help inform companies and individuals if Emotet compromised their accounts.
28 April 2021

Google Chrome V8 Bug Allows Remote Code-Execution

Google Chrome V8 Bug Allows Remote Code-Execution The internet behemoth rolled out the Chrome 90 stable channel release to address this and eight other security vulnerabilities.
28 April 2021

How to Secure Employees' Home Wi-Fi Networks

Businesses must ensure their remote workers' Wi-Fi networks don't risk exposing business data or secrets due to fixable vulnerabilities.
28 April 2021

Cartoon Caption Winner: Rough Patch?

Cartoon Caption Winner: Rough Patch? And the winner of The Edge's April cartoon caption contest is ...
28 April 2021

Chase Bank Phish Swims Past Exchange Email Protections

Chase Bank Phish Swims Past Exchange Email Protections Two phishing attacks elude Exchange security protections and spoof real-life account scenarios in an attempt to fool victims.
28 April 2021

Is Your Cloud Raining Sensitive Data?

Learn common Kubernetes vulnerabilities and ways to avoid them.
28 April 2021

Attacks Targeting ADFS Token Signing Certificates Could Become Next Big Threat

New research shows how threat actors can steal and decrypt signing certificates so SAML tokens can be forged.
28 April 2021

Apple patches macOS Gatekeeper bypass vulnerability exploited in the wild

The patch tackles a zero-day bug actively exploited by Shlayer malware.
28 April 2021

Linux kernel vulnerability exposes stack memory, causes data leaks

The bug could also be used as a conduit for more severe attacks.
28 April 2021

Microsoft mulls over tweaks to threat data, code-sharing scheme following Exchange Server debacle

It has been suspected that exploit code used in the wave of attacks may have been sourced from the program.
28 April 2021

Search Yourself Online

Ever wonder just how much information is publicly available about you? Ever wonder how cyber criminals harvest information and customize attacks for their victims? The technique is called Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and it is far simpler and more powerful than you think.
28 April 2021

COVID-19, WFH prompts spike in cyberattacks against banks, insurers

Research suggests “open and insecure gaps” are being exploited in financial organizations’ networks.
28 April 2021

Do Cyberattacks Affect Stock Prices? It Depends on the Breach

A security researcher explores how data breaches, ransomware attacks, and other types of cybercrime influence stock prices.
27 April 2021

Nintendo Sues Video-Game Pirates

Nintendo Sues Video-Game Pirates Nintendo is questing after its third successful lawsuit against circumvention-device sellers, this time against Team Xecuter.
27 April 2021