NBC News reported on Thursday that U.S. President Joe Biden was presented with an initial list “of options” to conduct significant cyberattacks against Russian infrastructure as a retaliation to President Vladimir Putin’s military campaign on Ukraine. According to the news agency, “two U.S. intelligence, one Western intelligence official and another person briefed on the matter say […]
Cybersecurity
2021 came, and with it came the wave of emerging technologies in various sectors, be it medical, sustainability, blockchain technology, and much more. And while 2021 wasn’t as intense as its predecessor, the year still brought with it some challenges that were quite an ordeal to overcome, or even avoid, for that matter. With this […]
T-Mobile reported on Tuesday yet another cyber threat where criminals accessed “a small number of” users’ accounts, following a devastating data breach dating back to August 2021. The T-Mobile’s report revealed how the telecom operator noticed “unauthorized activity” on some accounts, where hackers gained access to view customer proprietary network information (CPNI), “an active SIM […]
One of the many things the Log4j ransomware attack showcased is that U.S.-based businesses and governmental entities have been heavily affected by cyberattacks, such as ransomware, data breaches, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), according to CNBC. “I think more people are taking advantage of the United States – and our openness and our true global workforce – […]
Customers hoping to get a limited-edition NFT from Fractal, a brand new market for sport merchandise NFTs, have been surprised on Tuesday when it was revealed that a link sent through the project’s official Discord channel, was a scam set up to steal crypto. Users who followed the link and connected their crypto wallets, expecting […]
According to state-backed media reports, Alibaba Cloud Computing’s information-sharing partnership was put to an end on Wednesday by Chinese watchdogs, following allegations of neglecting to report and tackle a cyber threat. The 21st Century Business Herald reported that the subsidiary of the e-commerce giant failed to promptly report weaknesses in the famous, open course logging […]
In the months since President Joe Biden warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that he needed to crack down on ransomware gangs in his country, there hasn’t been a massive attack like the one last May that resulted in gasoline shortages. But that’s small comfort to Ken Trzaska. Trzaska is president of Lewis & Clark Community College, […]
Security researchers said Thursday they found two kinds of commercial spyware on the phone of a leading exiled Egyptian dissident, providing new evidence of the depth and diversity of the abusive hacker-for-hire industry. One piece of malware recently found on an iPhone belonging to Ayman Nour, a dissident and 2005 Egyptian presidential candidate who subsequently […]
A critical vulnerability in a widely used software tool — one quickly exploited in the online game Minecraft — is rapidly emerging as a major threat to organizations around the world. “The internet’s on fire right now,” said Adam Meyers, senior vice president of intelligence at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. “People are scrambling to patch,” […]
Tech tools like digital contact tracing apps and artificial intelligence that European governments rolled out to combat COVID-19 failed to play a key role in solving the pandemic and now threaten to make such monitoring widely accepted, a new report shows. The health surveillance technologies that many European countries deployed after the coronavirus pandemic erupted […]