Google and YouTube have agreed to pay $170 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New York Attorney General over the tech firms' alleged violations of the …
Revealed: How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran
The notorious Stuxnet malware attack that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities was deployed by "an inside mole recruited by Dutch intelligence agents at the behest of the CIA and the Israeli …
Over 47,000 Supermicro servers are exposing BMC ports on the internet
Security researchers with Eclypsium have discovered that more than 47,000 servers and other machines relying on Supermicro motherboards are at risk of attacks due to a number of security flaws …
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North Korea Denies Making $2bn from Cyber-Attacks
North Korea has denied a recent United Nations report stating that the country has used “widespread and increasingly sophisticated” cyberattacks to steal around $2 billion from financial institutions …
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Multicloud Businesses Face Higher Breach Risk
A new Nominet survey conducted among cybersecurity executives and professionals indicates that the use of multicloud environments creates more risks for organizations than the adoption of hybrid or …
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A Harbinger Of Our Future: Reports Indicade Voice Deepfake Was Used To Scam A CEO Out Of $243,000
Adversaries in search of financial gain will innovate. We all need to accept that observation as a fact of life, meaning we should all stay agile and prepare for surprise. When it comes to deep fake …
A look into the frequency and success of phishing attacks on SMBs
In the last 12 months, threat actors targeted 43% of small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the UK with a phishing attack in which they masqueraded as one or more employees, a new CybSafe report …
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What prevents companies from achieving effective security performance management?
38% of companies have lost business as the result of real or perceived shortcomings in their cybersecurity program, a new BitSight study reveals. According to almost three in four C-level respondents, …
XKCD Forum Breach Exposes Emails, Passwords of 562,000 Users
Over half a million fans of the popular XKCD webcomic have been impacted by a security incident on July 1 that exposed a large data collection of the XKCD forums. The forums are currently offline and …
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Data Leak Hits 2.5 Million Customers of Cosmetics Giant Yves Rocher
Security researchers with vpnMentor recently discovered that retail consultancy firm Aliznet was leaking the data of 2.5 million Canadian Yves Rocher customers via an unsecured Elasticsearch database. …
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