As users are losing access to their accounts by the dozens, we offer a few tips to help keep your streaming subscriptions safe The long-awaited streaming service Disney+ was launched to the cheers of many. But it wasn’t without technical issues; in addition, within hours of the service going online many users were reporting that
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What an irony — someone hacked the official website of the Monero cryptocurrency project and quietly replaced legitimate Linux and Windows binaries available for download with malicious versions designed to steal funds from users’ wallets. The latest supply-chain cyberattack was revealed on Monday after a Monero user spotted that the cryptographic hash for binaries he
At its Cloud Next event in London, Google today announced a number of product updates around its managed Anthos platform, as well as Apigee and its Cloud Code tools for building modern applications that can then be deployed to Google Cloud or any Kubernetes cluster. Anthos is one of the most important recent launches for
Lucence Diagnostics, a genomic medicine startup that develops non-invasive tests for cancer screening, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series A led by IHH Healthcare, one of the world’s largest integrated private healthcare groups. Other participants included SGInnovate and returning investors Heliconia Capital (a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings), Lim Kaling and Koh
A study conducted by cloud-based email security company Red Sift has found that only 12.5% of America’s top 100 retailers have taken steps to prevent fraudulent emails from landing in their customers’ inboxes. The worrying finding emerged after Red Sift researchers looked into the DMARC status of companies featured in STORES Magazine’s Top 100 Retailers for 2019, along with their subsidiaries.
When software-defined WAN was first introduced, it quickly became synonymous with WAN transformation. If you were going to fix the ills of wide area networking, the road led through SD-WAN. But, in truth, SD-WAN ignores many other networking and security challenges that face the digital business. A new architecture is taking hold that some analysts
by John E Dunn If you think brand new Android smartphones are immune from security vulnerabilities, think again – a new analysis by security company Kryptowire uncovered 146 CVE-level flaws in devices from 29 smartphone makers. Without studying all 146 in detail, it’s not clear from the company’s list how many were critical flaws, but
Another in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans In this installment of our blog series, we will focus on Mispadu, an ambitious Latin American banking trojan that utilizes McDonald’s malvertising and extends its attack surface to web browsers. We believe this malware family is targeting the general public. Its main goals are monetary
What could be even worse than getting hacked? It’s the “failure to detect intrusions” that always results in huge losses to the organizations. Utah-based technology company InfoTrax Systems is the latest example of such a security blunder, as the company was breached more than 20 times from May 2014 until March 2016. What’s ironic is
Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. to witness the achievement of what could represent a giant leap forward in the effort to decarbonize some of the world’s most carbon intensive industries. For Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab and brains behind the excursion,
The world is being mapped in 3D — one brick, one bench, one building at a time. For things like hyper-accurate augmented reality, autonomous robots and self-driving cars, 2D maps and GPS only get you so far. Apple is building its map with lasers strapped to the tops of cars. Niantic has talked about building
Disney’s new video-on-demand streaming service has been compromised within a week of its being launched, with hacked Disney+ accounts offered for sale online for just $1. According to The Daily Dot, the hugely popular Disney+ service, which amassed over 10 million subscribers on its first day alone, was targeted by threat actors from the get-go. Within hours
by Danny Bradbury US intelligence agencies won’t harvest US residents’ geolocation data in future investigations, revealed the US government this month. In fact, it hasn’t done so since last summer. The last 18 months have seen significant changes to the US’s collection of phone location data. Since 1994, law enforcement agencies in the US had
Security researchers have tracked down activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers that are targeting several businesses and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States in an attempt to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware. Though the new malware campaigns are not customized for each organization, the threat actors appear
E-commerce continues to gain momentum — a trend we’ll see played out in the next two months of holiday shopping — and with that comes more consolidation. Today, Elavon, the payments company that is a subsidiary of US Bancorp, announced that it will acquire Sage Pay, one of the bigger payment processors in the UK
It was the one of the best phishing emails we’ve seen… that wasn’t. Phishing remains one of the most popular attack choices for scammers. Phishing emails are designed to impersonate companies or executives to trick users into turning over sensitive information, typically usernames and passwords, so that scammers can log into online services and steal
Ethical hackers from around the world have been invited to discover and fix vulnerabilities in Japan’s largest messaging app. LINE Corporation today launched a public bug bounty program (BBP), offering hackers financial rewards for identifying glitches throughout LINE’s web domains and core messenger application. The program will run through HackerOne, which LINE has been using since July
by Danny Bradbury An anonymous cybercriminal (or perhaps a gang) whose over-pilfering from a victim’s filesystem blew the “disk full” whistle on their massive data-stealing operation. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement with InfoTrax, a Utah-based company that provides business operations software for multi-level marketers, after thieves stole a million sensitive customer
As the world becomes more interconnected by the day, more and more companies of all sizes and industries are finding themselves under attack by fearless cybercriminals who can access their entire server farms from across the globe with only a few lines of code. And it’s not just private corporations that are suffering. A wide
The maker of Magic: The Gathering has confirmed that a security lapse exposed the data on hundreds of thousands of game players. The game’s developer, the Washington-based Wizards of the Coast, left a database backup file in a public Amazon Web Services storage bucket. The database file contained user account information for the game’s online
Aerial imagery is a common asset in military matters, but 3D maps can be difficult to collect on short notice without specialized equipment. This new photogrammetry technique from the Army Corps of Engineers, however, can make accurate 3D maps from ordinary aerial footage in just minutes. Photogrammetry is the process of comparing multiple photos of
Next month marks the 30th anniversary of the first ever ransomware attack, and according to new research this particular form of malware is still going strong. According to the “Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report“ published yesterday by Bitdefender, ransomware increased 74.23% year on year in the first six months of 2019. Researchers noted a change in the ransomware landscape following the fall
Security researchers found vulnerabilities in the Qualcomm TrustZone secure element extension that could allow attackers to steal the most sensitive data stored on mobile devices. TrustZone implements architectural security extensions on ARM processors that can be integrated into the bootloader, radio, Android system image and a trusted execution environment (TEE) in mobile devices. Slava Makkaveev,
by Danny Bradbury Last month a serious Linux Wi-Fi flaw (CVE-2019-17666) was uncovered that could have enabled an attacker to take over a Linux device using its Wi-Fi interface. At the time it was disclosed Naked Security decided to wait until a patch was available before writing about it. Well, it’s been patched, but the
A recent update to Facebook’s iOS app introduced a bug that had some users worried Earlier in November, several iPhone users started experiencing a mysterious glitch while using the Facebook app. The issue got wider traction once some of them, including Joshua Maddux, went to Twitter to share their experience, CNET reports. The glitch is
The recent controversies surrounding the WhatsApp hacking haven’t yet settled, and the world’s most popular messaging platform is in choppy waters once again. The Hacker News has learned that WhatsApp has recently patched yet another critical vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to remotely compromise targeted devices and potentially steal secured chat messages and files
In these times of political strife, it’s nice that despite our differences we can still band together as a nation in the face of a catastrophe that affects us all equally. I speak, of course, of robocalls, and it seems that the House and Senate have put their differences aside for the present in order
“5 months and growing strong” the Libra Association announced today in an post about its technical infrastructure that completely omits the fierce regulatory backlash to its cryptocurrency. 40 wallets, tools, and block explorers plus 1,700 Github commits have how now been built on its blockchain testnet that’s seen 51,000 mock transactions in the past two
New research published today by Zix-AppRiver has revealed that 61% of US executives feel powerless to stop employees holiday shopping on company devices, despite knowing that the practice poses a cybersecurity threat to the business. Researchers asked 1,049 cybersecurity decision-makers within American SMBs across a diverse range of industry sectors about the holiday shopping habits of their employees. According
by John E Dunn More than a decade after it first emerged, is the world any closer to stopping ransomware? Judging from the growing toll of large organisations caught out by what has become the weapon of choice for so many criminals, it’s tempting to conclude not. The problem for defenders, as documented in SophosLabs’
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