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The state of the dark web: Insights from the underground

January 21, 2021 10:56 am

Advertisement Lately, dark web actors have one more worry: getting caught by law enforcement. Tracking dark web illegal activities has been a cat-and-mouse game for authorities, but in the end, they often catch their adversaries and seize the dodgy money. On the night of the 2020 presidential election, for example, US government officials managed to...

The future history of medical device cybersecurity

January 13, 2021 8:12 am

Advertisement In 1555, Nostradamus published his famous Les Prophéties containing obfuscated prophecies for the world to come. Some believe that one of these predictions pertains to the year 2020 and it reads, in part: “The false trumpet concealing madness / will cause Byzantium to change its laws.” Yeah… I have no idea what that means...

SolarWinds hack is a wakeup call for taking cybersecurity action

January 6, 2021 11:00 am

Advertisement Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have long been a concern of the cybersecurity community. Well-organized teams with significant resources and targets they are not willing to give up attacking until their mission is accomplished are certainly not a threat to be underestimated. The tactics deployed by such groups involve a combination of attack types, from...

Bugs in Signal, other video chat apps allowed attackers to listen in on users

Issued by: Help Net Security

Bugs in several messaging/video chat mobile apps allowed attackers to spy on targeted users’s surroundings. The vulnerabilities – in Signal, Google Duo, Facebook Messenger, JioChat, and Mocha – could be triggered by simply placing a call to the target’s device – no other action was...

The state of the dark web: Insights from the underground

Issued by: CSO

Lately, dark web actors have one more worry: getting caught by law enforcement. Tracking dark web illegal activities has been a cat-and-mouse game for authorities, but in the end, they often catch their adversaries and seize the dodgy money. On the night of the 2020...

Ransomware Took Heavy Toll on US in 2020: Researchers

Issued by: Security Week

The study released Monday by the security firm Emsisoft said ransomware attacks -- which encrypt and disable computer systems while demanding a ransom -- affected 113 federal, state and municipal governments, 560 health facilities and 1,681 schools, colleges and universities last year. "The attacks caused...

Malwarebytes was breached by the SolarWinds attackers

Issued by: Help Net Security

A fourth malware strain wielded by the SolarWinds attackers has been detailed by Symantec researchers, followed by the disclosure of the attackers’ ingenous lateral movement techniques and the release of an auditing script by FireEye researchers that organizations can use to check their Microsoft 365...

Worldwide SD-WAN market to reach valuation of $53 billion by end of 2030

Issued by: Help Net Security

A software-defined wide area network is a type of computer network that allows the bounding of multiple internet access resources, such as cables, digital subscriber lines (DSL), and cellular or any other IP transport to provide high throughput data channels. WAN solutions improve application performance,...

Visibility, control and governance holding back cloud transformation

Issued by: Help Net Security

While 91% of organizations were successful in increasing security as a result of adopting cloud services, it remains a top concern for many, a part two of an Aptum study reveals. The report identifies common security, compliance and governance challenges impacting organizations undergoing cloud transformation....

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Ransomware Took Heavy Toll on US in 2020: Researchers

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Facebook Takes Legal Action Against Data Scrapers

The future history of medical device cybersecurity

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