The smartphone security advice from the National Security Agency to turn it off and on again every week just won’t go away. Although the advice was initially penned in 2020 as part of a broader guide to mobile device best practices, the weekly reboot warning keeps returning to haunt us. But just how relevant is […]
Moscow is prepared to launch a wave of cyberattacks against NATO allies that could leave millions without power, according to a senior United Kingdom minister. Russia is “exceptionally aggressive and reckless in the cyber realm,” Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden, whose portfolio includes national security, is expected to tell participants at a NATO cybersecurity conference in London on […]
In what I can only describe as a first in my decades of real-world experience covering cyber attacks of all shapes and sizes, cyber criminals have turned to decidedly old technology to distribute malware according to this new warning from the Swiss National Cyber Security Centre: snail mail. Yes, you read that right. It appears […]
The software we use is older than me, and some of the hardware is older than my dad,” says Siddharth*. He is one of a team fighting a daily battle to sustain ancient IT infrastructure at Thames Water. Sometimes the defences are breached. Thames, the UK’s largest water and waste treatment company, is on a […]
The recently detailed DeepData malware framework was caught exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the Fortinet VPN client for Windows to steal credentials, cybersecurity firm Volexity reports. DeepData is a surveillance framework that relies on multiple plugins to target sensitive information stored in browsers, communication applications, and password managers, and which can record audio using the system’s […]
A critical vulnerability in the widely used MOVEit file transfer software has led to one of the most extensive corporate data leaks in recent history, affecting millions of employees across 25 major organizations. The breach, attributed to a zero-day vulnerability known as CVE-2023-34362, has exposed sensitive employee information from global companies in the finance, technology, healthcare, […]
When training and credential provider ISC2s released its latest workforce analysis recently, the report’s continued focus on a gap between the number of “needed” cybersecurity professionals and the estimate of the current workforce touched off a backlash. Following discussions with dozens of unemployed cybersecurity professionals, field CISO Ira Winkler of CYE Security wrote an open […]
WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) – U.S. cybersecurity agency director Jen Easterly said on Monday that her department has not seen evidence of any activity that could directly impact the outcome of the election, despite a surge in disinformation. She added that the 2024 election has faced an “unprecedented amount of disinformation” from foreign adversaries. U.S. […]
US security agencies warn of Russian election disinformation blitz in swing states Russia the ‘most active threat’ as false tales of election fraud pose risk of violence, say ODNI, FBI and cybersecurity agency Russia-linked disinformation operations have falsely claimed officials in battleground states plan to fraudulently sway the outcome of the US presidential election, authorities […]
Google really does take your security seriously and has been proving as much by the swathe of increasingly sophisticated protections against cyber attack it has introduced in recent months. With an estimated 2.5 billion active users, one of the main targets for hackers is your Gmail account. As reports of the latest session cookie stealing, […]