More Fierce Ransomware Still On Horizon, Corporate Victims To Increase
IBM’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (also known as IRIS) has issued a report, detailing the growth of destructive malware that infected the corporate space. The cybersecurity arm of Big Blue has disclosed that 12,316 corporate Internet-connected devices were rendered offline, costing $239 million to replace and reconfigure in an average malware attack for
[ Read More ]Suspected Ransomware Infections, Delays Houston County’s School
Alabama’s Houston County Schools are in a dilemma, as the start of its school year had to be delayed in order to buy more time in recovering from a malware attack. The school’s officials are tightlipped about what specific malware strain infected the schools’ networks. However, like what we have reported multiple times here, only
[ Read More ]IoT Cybersecurity Is Still Very Problematic
In our past article, we have discussed the flaws affecting an obscure embedded OS, which happens to be one of the most successful operating systems in history, while at the same time remained hidden from most users, VxWorks. We are in the middle of a major shift in computing, as competition for the standard operating
[ Read More ]South Korean Debit/Credit Card Theft, At Alarming Levels
Security researchers from Gemini Advisory, a cyber threat intelligence firm, disclosed a huge sale campaign for credit/debit cards in hacker forums belonging to South Korean cardholders. The first batch of stolen card credentials was numbered to 890,000, while the second batch reached 230,000 units, all in all, the number of cards “for sale” in the
[ Read More ]Fight Against Spam and Phishing Attacks, Are We Winning?
Maybe some of you have forgotten when then Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, Bill Gates uttered one of the silliest claims to promote Microsoft in 2004. In the prestigious 2004 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said: “Two years from now, spam will be solved.” He made such brave claim in relation to the
[ Read More ]The Growth Of Netherland’s Anti-Microsoft Telemetry Stance
Microsoft has found a new foe in its Windows-Office empire, as the Netherland’s Ministry of Justice and Security issued a stern warning Dutch public sector users of Office mobile, Office online and the enterprise version of Windows 10 about privacy risks. The ministry based its findings to the Data Protection Impact Assessment report made by
[ Read More ]Four Fundamental Network Security Tips But Often Ignored
We cannot make someone reads our article to become a CCNA-level network administrator anytime soon. Networking is hard, with various protocols, wiring standards and other critical parts that need to work hand-in-hand to even enable a transfer of PING packets. Take a look at the basics of the seven layers of the OSI model, to
[ Read More ]Android Security Out Of Google’s Control, Malware Infections Persists
“Security patch” is a term that refers to programs and data that fix known vulnerability in the software. Vulnerabilities are weaknesses, software bugs which can be “weaponized” in order to compromise the security and privacy of users. How many times we have witnessed in the mobile space, more particularly on Android having many unpatched defects,
[ Read More ]IoT Suppliers From China, Should We Trust Them?
Internet-of-Things is one of our most favorite, if not the most favorite topic to discuss here. We wrote countless articles since 2017, about the inherent increase of acceptance of IoT devices, the security risks they add to the homes and offices, and the real cost of its operations overall. However, we have not tackled the
[ Read More ]250GB Stolen Data From Brazillan Bank
Brazillian bank named Banco Pan is at the center of the biggest controversy of its history when it was involved with the release of 250GB worth of their customers’ data to the public. The unprotected server in question is not yet identified at the time of this writing, but it hosts data not only for
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