Facebook said it has disrupted a network of hackers tied to Iran who were attempting to distribute malware via malicious links shared under fake personas. The social network’s cyber espionage investigations team has taken action …
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Around half of firms don’t have the technology to prevent or detect ransomware attacks, according to research by cybersecurity company Trend Micro. It suggests that many of organisations don’t have the cybersecurity capabilities required to …
Colorado has joined California and Virginia in passing a comprehensive data privacy law that forces companies to make wholesale changes to how they handle people’s sensitive information online. The Colorado Privacy Act, which was signed …
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How hard is it to keep your iPhone — and the data that’s on it — safe from hackers and other bad folks out there? Not hard at all. While there’s no doubt that security …
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UPDATE: In a statement late Friday evening, Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola confirmed that the company’s Incident Response team caught wind of the attack mid-day and immediately shut down their SaaS servers as a precautionary measure, despite not …
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Organizations are losing millions of dollars in revenue each year due to leaked infrastructure code, credentials and keys, according to a new report from 1Password. 1Password’s report “Hiding in Plain Sight” said that on average, …
An underground virtual private network (VPN) service used by cyber criminals to hide their activities while conducting ransomware attacks, phishing campaigns and other malicious hacking operations has been taken down in a major international law …
This VPN service used by ransomware gangs was just taken down by police Read More »
Zscaler, which specializes in data security for cloud-based applications, had had quite a year. At its fourth annual Zenith Live event (all-digital format again, as in 2020), the company talked about how the pandemic helped …
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ZDNet Business author and expert, H. James Harrington, once said, If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t …
Google rolls out a unified security vulnerability schema for open-source software Read More »
ZDNet Amazon announced a new global competition called AWS BugBust, which will allow developers to compete over finding and fixing one million bugs. The company said the competition will also help reduce technical debt by …
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ZDNet Over half of organisations would pay the ransom if they fell victim to a ransomware attack – despite repeated warnings that they shouldn’t encourage cyber criminal extortion. Research by the Neustar International Security Council …
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ZDnet Security teams are in place in less than a third of Brazilian organizations, even though most businesses frequently suffer cyberattacks, according to new research. Some 57% of businesses from the education, financial services, insurance, …
Most Brazilian companies lack cybersecurity teams Read More »