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Pandemic Could Accelerate Passwordless Authentication
As we celebrate another World Password Day, security pros are hopeful that when we move out of the stay-at-home period, companies will continue to focus on digital technologies - and ditching passwords.Hackers Dumpster Dive for Taxpayer Data in COVID-19 Relief Money Scams
Threat actors are buying and selling taxpayer data on hacker forums as well as using phishing and other campaigns to steal various U.S. government payouts.
Digital transformation could be accelerated by COVID‑19
The pandemic has highlighted the need for businesses to act with alacrity and prepare for the long haul – and to do so with cybersecurity in mind
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7 Ways Parents Can Better Protect Their Online-Gamer Offspring
It's 11 a.m. Are your kids locked in their rooms playing games online?
Major European private hospital operator struck by ransomware
Fresenius says despite IT system disruption, patient care is carrying on as normal.Naikon APT Hid Five-Year Espionage Attack Under Radar
The Chinese APT has been discovered behind a five-year espionage campaign that compromises government servers - and uses that as leverage for other attacks.
5 common password mistakes you should avoid
Password recycling or using easy-to-guess passwords are just two common mistakes you may be making when protecting your digital accounts
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For 8 years, a hacker operated a massive IoT botnet just to download Anime videos
The botnet consisted solely of D-Link NAS and NVR devices and the botnet peaked at 10,000 bots in 2015.Maze Ransomware Operators Step Up Their Game
Investigations show Maze ransomware operators leave "nothing to chance" when putting pressure on victims to pay.Attacks on WordPress Sites Surge
Defiant says it observed a 30-fold increase in attacks in just the past few days.Lazarus Group Hides macOS Spyware in 2FA Application
The Dacls RAT has been ported from an existing Linux version.
What is an 'Endpoint'?
Some companies' endpoint security strategies may now cover an ever-widening array of devices, as Dark Reading's latest State of Endpoint Security survey discovered.
Financial Phishing Attacks Take Off, Malware Declines
In the past year, the number of digital threats increased by nearly half as phishing swamped malware to become the most dominant attack technique.Half of Companies Have Suffered a Cybersecurity Issue Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Survey shows 49% expect to experience a data breach or cybersecurity incident in the next month.Microsoft Reportedly in Talks to Acquire CyberX
CyberX was founded in 2013 and has raised $48 million to build its cybersecurity platform for IoT and industrial control systems.InfinityBlack Dismantled After Selling Millions of Credentials
In the Europol-led takedown, police shut down databases with more than 170 million entries.
Almost a million WordPress websites targeted in massive campaign
An unknown threat actor is exploiting vulnerabilities in plugins for which patches have been available for months, or even years
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Samsung patches 0-click vulnerability impacting all smartphones sold since 2014
Samsung patched this month a critical bug discovered by Google security researchers.The Guardian view on an NHS coronavirus app: it must do no harm | Editorial
Smartphones can be used to digitally trace Covid-19. But not if the public don’t download an app over privacy fears – or find it won’t work on their device
The idea of the NHS tracing app is to enable smartphones to track users and tell them whether they interacted with someone who had Covid-19. Yet this will work only if large proportions of the population download the app. No matter how smart a solution may appear, mass consent is required. That will not be easy. Ministers and officials have failed to address the trade-offs between health and privacy by being ambiguous about the app’s safeguards.
Instead of offering cast-iron guarantees about the length of time for which data would be held; who can access it; and the level of anonymity afforded, we have had opacity and obfuscation. It is true that we are dealing with uncertainties. But without absolute clarity about privacy the public is unlikely to take up the app with the appropriate gusto.
Continue reading...The Price of Fame? Celebrities Face Unique Hacking Threats
Hackers are hitting the sports industry hard on social media and luring quarantined consumers with offers of free streaming services, a new report shows.