Apple has announced the availability of watchOS 8.3 for the general public. The firm has outlined three main items in this update including support for the Apple Music Voice Plan which gives you access to …
Kronos Private Cloud has been hit by a ransomware attack. The company, also known as Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), provides timekeeping services to companies employing millions across worldwide. Emails sent by Kronos to its corporate …
Researchers at the University of Darmstadt, Brescia, CNIT, and the Secure Mobile Networking Lab, have published a paper that proves it’s possible to extract passwords and manipulate traffic on a WiFi chip by targeting a …
Bugs in billions of WiFi, Bluetooth chips allow password, data theft Read More »
As the world is beset by Log4Shell, arguably the most severe vulnerability ever, one of the biggest payroll processors is reporting a ransomware attack that has taken its systems offline for at least the next …
As Log4Shell wreaks havoc, payroll service reports ransomware attack Read More »
Ukrainian law enforcement arrested 51 suspects believed to have been selling stolen personal data on hacking forums belonging to hundreds of millions worldwide, including Ukraine, the US, and Europe. As a result of the operation, …
Ukraine arrests 51 for selling data of 300 million people in US, EU Read More »
In this article, we explain the Apache Log4Shell vulnerability in plain English, and give you some simple educational code that you can use safely and easily at home (or even directly on your own servers) …
Log4Shell explained – how it works, why you need to know, and how to fix it Read More »
Threat actors and researchers are scanning for and exploiting the Log4j Log4Shell vulnerability to deploy malware or find vulnerable servers. In this article we have compiled the known payloads, scans, and attacks using the Log4j …
Hackers start pushing malware in worldwide Log4Shell attacks Read More »
Amazon has published a post-event summary to shed some light on the root cause behind this week’s massive AWS outage that took down a long list of high-profile sites and online services, including Ring, Netflix, …
Amazon explains the cause behind Tuesday’s massive AWS outage Read More »
My daughter’s dog that we are caring for this weekend has just had her second walk of the day. My wife is still asleep. I have just poured a cup of coffee and am starting …
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Researchers from cybersecurity firm Cybereason has released a “vaccine” that can be used to remotely mitigate the critical ‘Log4Shell’ Apache Log4j code execution vulnerability running rampant through the Internet. Apache Log4j is a Java-based logging …
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A new phishing campaign that targets German e-banking users has been underway in the last couple of weeks, involving QR codes in the credential-snatching process. The actors are using a range of tricks to bypass …
Phishing attacks use QR codes to steal banking credentials Read More »
Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) was almost paralysed by ransomware after a single user opened a malicious file attached to a phishing email, a consultancy’s damning report has revealed. Issued today, the report from PWC …