Cybersecurity News


Apple strong-arms entire CA industry into one-year certificate lifespans

Apple, Google, and Mozilla reduce the lifespan for HTTPS certificates to 398 days, against the wishes of Certificate Authorities.
28 June 2020

Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns

Apple said these 16 new Web APIs add new user fingerprinting opportunities for online advertisers.
28 June 2020

Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Gets 9 Years

A well-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow was sentenced on Friday to nine years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to running a site that sold stolen payment card data, and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among its members some of the most elite Russian cybercrooks.
27 June 2020

Adobe, Mastercard, Visa warn online store owners of Magento 1.x EOL

Almost 110,000 online stores are still running the soon-to-be-outdated Magento 1.x CMS.
27 June 2020

DarkCrewFriends Returns with Botnet Strategy

DarkCrewFriends Returns with Botnet Strategy The botnet can be used to mount different kinds of attacks, including code-execution and DDoS.
26 June 2020

8 U.S. City Websites Targeted in Magecart Attacks

8 U.S. City Websites Targeted in Magecart Attacks Researchers believe that Click2Gov, municipal payment software, may be at the heart of this most recent government security incident.
26 June 2020

‘Cardplanet’ Operator Sentenced to 9 Years for Selling Stolen Credit Cards

‘Cardplanet’ Operator Sentenced to 9 Years for Selling Stolen Credit Cards The carding store victimized mainly U.S. citizens and is responsible for $20 million in fraudulent purchases.
26 June 2020

Major US Companies Targeted in New Ransomware Campaign

Evil Corp. group hit at least 31 customers in campaign to deploy WastedLocker malware, according to Symantec.
26 June 2020

Docker servers infected with DDoS malware in extremely rare attacks

Most Docker servers are usually infected with cryptocurrency-mining malware.
26 June 2020

5 New InfoSec Job Training Trends: What We're Studying During COVID-19

5 New InfoSec Job Training Trends: What We're Studying During COVID-19 With the pandemic uprooting networks and upending careers, which security skills are hot -- and which are not?
26 June 2020

Satori Botnet Creator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison

Satori Botnet Creator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison The creator of the Satori/Okiru, Masuta and Tsunami/Fbot botnets has been sentenced to prison for compromising hundreds of thousands of devices.
26 June 2020

Good Cyber Hygiene in a Pandemic-Driven World Starts with Us

Three ways that security teams can improve processes and collaboration, all while creating the common ground needed to sustain them.
26 June 2020

Good Cyber Hygiene in a Post-Pandemic World Starts with Us

Three ways that security teams can improve processes and collaboration, all while creating the common ground needed to sustain them.
26 June 2020

SOC Wins & Losses

While the security operations center is enjoying a higher profile these days, just one-fourth of security operations centers actually resolve incidents quickly enough.
26 June 2020

Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Android ransomware posing as a COVID-19 tracing app – Ill-trained and ill-equipped newly-minted remote workers – How Bitcoin giveaway scams misuse Elon Musk's name

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26 June 2020

TikTok To Stop Clipboard Snooping After Apple Privacy Feature Exposes Behavior

TikTok To Stop Clipboard Snooping After Apple Privacy Feature Exposes Behavior App will stop reading users’ device cut-and-paste data after a new banner alert in an Apple update uncovered the activity.
26 June 2020

Credit card skimmers are now being buried in image file metadata on e-commerce websites

Magecart attackers are suspected of using an interesting technique to steal your financial data.
26 June 2020

More than 75% of all vulnerabilities reside in indirect dependencies

JavaScript, Ruby, and Java are the ecosystems with most bugs in indirect dependencies.
26 June 2020

Nvidia squashes display driver code execution, information leak bugs

The vulnerabilities impact both Windows and Linux machines.
26 June 2020

What is a password manager and why is it useful?

A password manager can make your digital life both simpler and more secure. Are there any downsides to relying on software to create and store your passwords?

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26 June 2020