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Consumer behaviors and cyber risks of holiday shopping in 2020

November 20, 2020 8:22 am

Advertisement While consumers are aware of increased risks and scams via the internet, they still plan to do more shopping online – and earlier – this holiday season, McAfee reveals. Thirty-six percent of Americans note they are hitting the digital links to give gifts and cheer this year, despite 60% feeling that cyber scams become...

Vulnerabilities Exploited at Chinese Hacking Contest Patched in Firefox, Chrome

November 11, 2020 1:50 pm

Advertisement The Firefox vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-26950, has been described as an issue related to write side effects in MCallGetProperty opcode not being accounted for. “In certain circumstances, the MCallGetProperty opcode can be emitted with unmet assumptions resulting in an exploitable use-after-free condition,” Mozilla said in an advisory published on Monday. The flaw was fixed...

How to buy Bitcoin for ransomware payment (if you must)

November 5, 2020 11:52 am

Advertisement Law enforcement agencies across the world advise companies that are victims of ransomware attacks not to pay the ransom. Aside from the risk of criminals taking the money and running, paying encouraging further attacks and potentially could be illegal depending on where the money is being sent. The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign...

Why Better Password Hygiene Should Be Part of Your New Year’s Resolutions

Issued by: Security Week

The world has been faced with numerous life lessons in 2020, but it’s clear that millions of people still haven’t learned one of the most basic when it comes to security. A new report from NordPass has revealed that millions of people still haven’t broken...

Around 18,000 fraudulent sites are created daily

Issued by: Help Net Security

The internet is full of fraud and theft and cybercriminals are operating in the open with impunity, misrepresenting brands and advocating deceit overtly. Bolster found these criminals are using mainstream ISPs, hosting companies and free internet services – the same that are used by legitimate...

VMware releases workarounds for another critical flaw (CVE-2020-4006)

Issued by: Help Net Security

For the second time in less than a week, VMware is warning about a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-4006). This time, the affected solutions are VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, VMware Identity Manager and VMware Identity Manager Connector. As some of these are components of the...

How the pandemic has accelerated existing risk trends

Issued by: Help Net Security

COVID-19 has reorganized the risk landscape for chief audit executives (CAEs), as CAEs have listed IT governance as the top risk for 2021, according to Gartner. Analysts said the pandemic is giving rise to new sets of risks while exacerbating long-standing vulnerabilities. Gartner conducted interviews...

Even the world’s freest countries aren’t safe from internet censorship

Issued by: Help Net Security

The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of what are considered the world’s freest countries aren’t safe from internet censorship. A team from the University of Michigan used its own Censored Planet tool, an automated censorship tracking system...

Organizations plan to use AI and ML to tackle unknown attacks faster

Issued by: Help Net Security

Wipro published a report which provides fresh insights on how AI will be leveraged as part of defender stratagems as more organizations lock horns with sophisticated cyberattacks and become more resilient. Organizations need to tackle unknown attacks There has been an increase in R&D with...

Cyber Security Minute

Why Better Password Hygiene Should Be Part of Your New Year’s Resolutions

Even the world’s freest countries aren’t safe from internet censorship

Apple to Press Ahead on Mobile Privacy, Despite Facebook Protests

AWS Network Firewall: Network protection across all AWS workloads

6 security shortcomings that COVID-19 exposed

Malware activity spikes 128%, Office document phishing skyrockets

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