Cybersecurity experts believe CVE-2021-44228, a remote code execution flaw in Log4j, will take months, if not years, to address due its ubiquity and ease of exploitation. Steve Povolny, head of advanced threat research for McAfee Enterprise …
Log4j update: Experts say log4shell exploits will persist for ‘months if not years’ Read More »
Billion-dollar logistics firm Hellmann Worldwide Logistics reported a cyberattack this week that forced them to temporarily remove all connections to their central data center. The company said the shut down was having a “material impact” …
German logistics giant Hellmann reports cyberattack Read More »
Security company Check Point Research has uncovered a hacking campaign that involves cyberattackers impersonating Iranian government bodies to infect the mobile devices of Iranian citizens through SMS messages. The SMS messages urge victims to download …
A cyber attack has forced supermarket chain Spar to close some of its UK stores. The retailer, which has 2,600 locations in the UK, said has been hit by what it describes as an “online …
A cyber attack has forced supermarket Spar to close some stores Read More »
More than 30,000 US healthcare workers’ personal information was recently exposed due to a non-password protected database, according to security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and a team of ethical hackers with Website Planet. Fowler discovered a …
Sensitive information of 30k Florida healthcare workers exposed in unprotected database Read More »
Colorado’s Delta-Montrose Electric Association (DMEA) is still struggling to recover from a devastating cyberattack last month that took down 90% of its internal systems and caused 25 years of historical data to be lost. In …
When it comes to fuzzing, Mozilla has plenty of cred, and has been doing so for some time, and yet, its prized Network Security Services (NSS) library was busted by Google Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy …
Mozilla properly fuzzed NSS and still ended up with a simple memory corruption hole Read More »
Australia is looking to create a new national data commissioner role that will be responsible for applying the data reforms presented in the Data Availability and Transparency (DAT) Bill 2020. The DAT Bill, which is still …
Australia to appoint its first National Data Commissioner Read More »
The vast majority of Brazilian companies plan to boost their cybersecurity budgets in 2022; a new study carried out by consulting firm PwC has found. According to the Global Digital Trust Insights Survey 2022, the …
Most Brazilian businesses set to boost cybersecurity spend in 2022 Read More »
Insecure cloud-computing services can be a huge risk for organisations because they’re a regular target for cyber criminals. Researchers have demonstrated how vulnerable or misconfigured cloud services can be, after deploying hundreds of honeypots designed to look …
These researchers wanted to test cloud security. They were shocked by what they found Read More »
Twitter has announced the expansion of its private information policy to include the sharing of private media, such as photos and videos, without permission from the individuals that are depicted in them, as the social …
Twitter to ban sharing of photos and videos without people’s consent Read More »
Beijing-backed hackers might soon start trying to steal encrypted data — such as biometric info, the identities of covert spies, and weapons designs — with a view to decrypting it with a future quantum computer, …