If you have an account with Microsoft Outlook email service, there is a possibility that your account information has been compromised by an unknown hacker or group of hackers, Microsoft confirmed. Earlier this year, hackers managed to breach Microsoft’s customer support portal and access information related to some email accounts registered with the company’s Outlook
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In a few weeks, Tesla buyers will have to pay more for an option that isn’t yet completely functional, but that CEO Elon Musk promises will one day deliver full autonomous driving capabilities. Musk tweeted Saturday that the price of its full self-driving option will “increase substantially over time” beginning May 1. Tesla vehicles are
Zero trust may seem like just another security buzzword, but organizations are increasingly finding reasons to take the zero trust approach to network security. In the early days of the internet, network security professionals borrowed medieval terminology to describe network defenses: Moats, bastion hosts, perimeters, firewalls and gateways all figured into the network defender’s vocabulary.
Email automation and delivery service Mailgun, announced that it has resolved a security incident that resulted from a massive coordinated attack against WordPress sites. “The mailgun.com webpage began issuing redirects to sites outside of our domain. We immediately launched an incident to determine the source of the redirects and determined that a plugin for WordPress
by Danny Bradbury A multi-agency report has strengthened claims that Russia meddled with election systems in all 50 US states during the last presidential race. The report is called a joint intelligence bulletin (JIB), and it comes from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. It is an unclassified document intended for internal distribution
Over the years kids have succeeded in staying one step ahead of parents on the digital front. Remember the golden days of social? Teens owned Facebook until every parent, auntie, and grandparent on the planet showed up. So, teens migrated to Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat hoping to carve out a private patch of land for
The new wireless security protocol contains multiple design flaws that hackers could exploit for attacks on Wi-Fi passwords WPA3, a new Wi-Fi security protocol launched in June 2018, suffers from vulnerabilities that make it possible for an adversary to recover the password of a wireless network via “efficient and low cost” attacks, according to a
I sat down with Menlo Ventures partner Shawn Carolan this week to talk about his early investment in Uber. Menlo, if you remember, led Uber’s Series B and has made a hefty sum over the year selling shares in the ride-hailing company. I’ll have more on that later; for now, I want to share some
Yes, you read that right! Russia has fined Facebook with 3,000 rubles, roughly $47, for not complying with the country’s controversial Data Localization law. It’s bizarre and unbelievable, but true. In December last year, Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor sent notifications to Twitter and Facebook asking them to provide information about the location of servers that
Drones are great. But they are also flying machines that can do lots of stupid and dangerous things. Like, for instance, fly over a major league baseball game packed with spectators. It happened at Fenway Park last night, and the FAA is not happy. The illegal flight took place last night during a Red Sox-Blue
Researchers at GreatHorn have identified what they are calling a widespread attack in which attackers spoofed both the Microsoft brand in the display name and the Barracuda Networks brand in the return path and received headers, with the goal of stealing credentials. The team identified an attack notable in that the return path spoofs a
by Paul Ducklin Julian Assange, founder of whistleblowing organisation WikiLeaks (or co-founder, depending on whom you ask) , and arguably Ecuador’s most famous Londoner (or infamous, depending on whom you ask), is in custody following his arrest yesterday. Assange rose to fame by leaking secret government documents that the WikiLeaks organisation acquired from a wide
More than 50 universities in the United Kingdom had their cyber-defenses tested by ethical hackers, and the ‘grades’ aren’t pretty A team of ethical hackers recently conducted tests on the cybersecurity defenses of more than 50 universities in the United Kingdom. In each case, it took them less than two hours to gain access to
Apple has added another step to prevent users from accidentally signing up for an iOS app’s subscription – or, from being tricked into it by a scammy app not playing by the rules. The company recently rolled out a subscription confirmation dialog box that pops up as one final step to ensure you meant to
Matrix—the organization behind an open source project that offers a protocol for secure and decentralized real-time communication—has suffered a massive cyber attack after unknown attackers gained access to the servers hosting its official website and data. Hackers defaced Matrix’s website, and also stole unencrypted private messages, password hashes, access tokens, as well as GPG keys
Disney’s direct-to-consumer streaming strategy took center stage today at the company’s investor day. That strategy includes Hulu (where the recently-closed Fox acquisition has given Disney a contyrolling stake), ESPN+ and the Indian streaming service Hotstar, but executives spent most of their time hyping the upcoming launch of Disney+. The company said the service will launch
Kicking off the second day of the ISC West 2019 conference in Las Vegas, keynote speaker Russ Butler, VP of security for the San Francisco 49ers and Levi’s Stadium, talked about the evolution of the ever-changing stadium security landscape in his talk, “Stadium Security: As It Was, Where It Is and Where It Is Going.” Butler
by Paul Ducklin Spamming is a word we all know and an activity we all loathe – it’s when crooks blast out unwanted emails for products we don’t want at a price we won’t pay from from suppliers we’ll never trust. And the word spam has given us related terms such as SPIM for spam
Conversational AI and the use of chatbots have been through multiple cycles of hype and disillusionment in the tech world. You know the story: first you get a launch from the likes of Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google or any number of other companies, and then you get the many examples of how their services
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London—that’s almost seven years after he took refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case. According to a short note released by London’s Metropolitan Police Service, Assange was arrested immediately after the Ecuadorian government today withdraws his
Sometimes, reading a lawsuit, it’s tempting to pick sides, to judge who is more right than wrong based on its contents. But a new lawsuit involving two venture-backed companies — both of which are rooted in machine intelligence — makes both sides sound surprisingly careless given their line of work. The plaintiff is Quid, a
As endpoint threats become more sophisticated and abundant, so does the need for more advanced endpoint security tools. An organization can improve the security of its endpoints — including laptops, desktop PCs, mobile devices and servers in the data center — by using software that can rapidly detect, analyze, block and contain in-progress attacks. These
Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are driving investments from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) science and technology directorate (S&T) with the goal of enhancing security and resiliency in public safety, transportation and communications, according to William N. Bryan, acting under secretary of S&T, who delivered the opening-day keynote speech at the
by Paul Ducklin The Naked Security podcast reveals how long you can expect to go unnoticed online [01’25”], explains why we still have applications where every bit matters [13’05”], and comes up with a new vocabulary for “data loss” on the scale of MySpace’s music file implosion [17’07”]. With Anna Brading, Paul Ducklin, Matthew Boddy
Cyber threats sometimes feel unrelenting and are becoming more dangerous every day. While the internet presents users with lots of information and services, it also includes several risks. Cyberattacks are increasing in sophistication and volume, with many cybercriminals using a combination of different types of attacks to accomplish a single goal. Though the list of
Streaming media feature among services that take the spotlight in a report on credential-stuffing attacks in 2018 Hackers made 30 billion attempts last year that involved testing out purloined or leaked login details en masse in a bid to invade other people’s online accounts, reads a report by content delivery network provider Akamai. In automated attacks
Amazon Go convenience stores will begin to accept cash, according to a report this morning from CNBC, which Amazon confirmed. The retailer didn’t say when cash would be added to existing stores as a payment option, however, only that it was planned. The issue with the cashierless, automated Amazon Go stores is that they require
Cybersecurity researchers yesterday unveiled the existence of a highly sophisticated spyware framework that has been in operation for at least last 5 years—but remained undetected until recently. Dubbed TajMahal by researchers at Kaspersky Lab, the APT framework is a high-tech modular-based malware toolkit that not only supports a vast number of malicious plugins for distinct
Udacity, the $1 billion online education startup, has laid off about 20 percent of its workforce and is restructuring its operations as the company’s co-founder Sebastian Thrun seeks to bring costs in line with revenue without curbing growth, TechCrunch has learned. The objective is to do more than simply keep the company afloat, Thrun told
Researchers suspect that a new stealer malware dubbed Baldr, first detected in January, has incorporated three known threat actors, according to Malwarebytes. In today’s blog post, researchers said that Baldr has earned positive reviews on Russian hacking forums for its use of three threat actors: Agressor for distribution, Overdot for sales and promotion and LordOdin for development.
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