About 30,000 Mac devices have been infected with a mysterious piece of malware. The “unusual” Silver Sparrow strain silently affected systems in more than 150 countries around the world. It was discovered by researchers at security company Red Canary, who have yet to determine its purpose. Apple says it has taken steps to restrict the […]
In many ways, cybersecurity has always been a contest; vendors race to develop security products that can identify and mitigate any threats, while cybercriminals aim to develop malware and exploits capable of bypassing protections. With the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), however, this combative exchange between attackers and defenders is about to become more complex […]
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A few weeks ago, on a routine company video call, one of the tech groups decided to prank the boss and five of them turned up looking like him. “It was very spooky. They used a publicity still of me and the person in the publicity still was blinking, moving his head, smiling, talking, saying things […]
Facebook is being sued for “losing control” of the data of about a million users in England and Wales. The alleged failings were revealed in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where harvested data was used for advertising during elections. Journalist Peter Jukes, leading the action, claims his data was compromised. Facebook told BBC News there was […]
Oldsmar, Florida, experienced one of the biggest fears in cybersecurity Friday — hackers looking to poison its water supply. It’s the kind of breach that has been warned about for years but is rarely seen. Experts say the hack, which was addressed quickly, is a prime example of why the cybersecurity of the U.S. water […]
A collective of anti-fascist Israeli hackers have broken into a website of a group allied to the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The hackers subsequently published names, photos and other personal information about members of the Patriotic Brigade Knights, which they had scraped, on social media. They also replaced some of the site’s content with […]
Normally when a data breach occurs, the cybercriminals responsible may leak the usernames and passwords stolen from one organization or company. However, a new compilation recently posted on an online hacking forum contains more than 3.2bn unique pairs of cleartext emails and passwords gathered from past leaks. As reported by CyberNews, this new data leak […]
As our day to day lives become increasingly digital, securing our online accounts has become more important than ever but what happens when our credentials are exposed in a data breach? While organizations are legally required to issue data breach notices after falling victim to a cyberattack, some breaches go unreported and users are not […]
Peter says that the cyber-attacks on his company are relentless. “We see tens of different hacking attacks every single week. It is never ending.” A senior computer network manager for a global financial services company, Peter (who did not want to give his surname, or the name of his employer, due to his firm’s anxieties […]