by Paul Ducklin In the past few days, we’ve written about both Mozilla and Google adopting DNS-over-HTTPS in their browsers. We’re supposed to use HTTPS wherever we can, so “something-over-HTTPS” sounds as though it ought to be more secure than “the-same-something-not-encrypted-at-all”… …and yet not everyone is happy about this whole DNS-over-HTTPS thing. Can more security
Shares of Cloudflare rose 20% today in its first day of trading on the public market, opening trading at $18 after it priced its IPO at $15 a share yesterday and holding steady through the day. Put another way, the performance of the nine-year-old company — which provides cloud-based network services to enterprises — was relatively
Celebrities: they’re just like us! Well, at least in the sense that they still face common cyberthreats. This week, “Avengers: Endgame” actor Robert Downey Jr. was added to the list of celebrities whose social media accounts have been compromised. According to Bleeping Computer, a hacker group managed to take control of the actor’s Instagram account, sharing
The bug, which has already been fixed by Facebook, allowed access to private user information that could be abused by malicious actors. A security flaw that allowed an attacker to access account information, such as a user’s full phone number and real name of Instagram users was found. Facebook, who previously confirmed the existence of
Good news… next week, on September 19, Apple will roll out iOS 13, the latest version of its mobile operating system. Yes, we’re excited about, but here comes the bad news… iOS 13 contains a vulnerability that could allow anyone to bypass the lockscreen protection on your iPhone and access some sensitive information. Jose Rodriguez,
Disney CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple’s Board of Directors, according to a just-published SEC filing. Neither company has given any reason for the departure (the explanatory text of the SEC filing is literally just “On September 10, 2019, Bob Iger resigned from the Board of Directors of Apple Inc.”) — but with
Speaking at 44CON, Pen Test Partners researchers Tony Gee and Vangelis Stykas demonstrated vulnerabilities in GPS trackers, which enabled them to call premium rate phone numbers, and possibly influence the outcome of television talent shows. Gee said that there is demand for GPS trackers, which are used in watches for kids, cars and even on
It’s time for two important disciplines — business continuity and its related initiatives and cybersecurity — to collaborate better. Typically, cybersecurity and business continuity operate in different silos, but I’m keen to move them closer together, as they are both important elements of an organization’s resilience. For example, a cybersecurity event, which is initially addressed
by John E Dunn Is this week’s test pilot launch of Mozilla Private Network the moment browser VPNs finally become a must-have privacy feature? Available as a free beta extension for desktop Firefox, initially in the US only, its arrival is certainly promising. It’s not the first browser to offer this feature – that honour
OKCredit, a Bangalore-based startup that enables small merchants to digitize their bookkeeping, has raised $67 million in a new financing round to grow its business in the nation. The Series B financing round for the two-year-old startup was led by Lightspeed and Tiger Global. The new round, which follows the Series A in June, climbs
Buying a car can be quite a process and requires a lot of time, energy, and research. What most potential car buyers don’t expect is to have their data exposed for all to see. But according to Threatpost, this story rings true for many prospective buyers. Over 198 million records containing personal, loan, and financial
Cybersecurity researchers today revealed the existence of a new and previously undetected critical vulnerability in SIM cards that could allow remote attackers to compromise targeted mobile phones and spy on victims just by sending an SMS. Dubbed “SimJacker,” the vulnerability resides in a particular piece of software, called the S@T Browser, a dynamic SIM toolkit
Felicis Ventures has, in its roughly 13 years of existence, established a reputation in venture circles as a smart early-stage investment firm that’s willing to make bets almost anywhere in the world. Founded by ex-Googler Aydin Senkut, the San Francisco-based firm has also demonstrated a knack for attracting talented investors into the fold, including another
The past 15 years has seen huge changes in the cybersecurity-related search terms internet users are deploying to find out more about the industry, with anti-virus supplanted by emerging next-gen solutions, according to new data from RedScan. Taking its cue from Google’s Year in Search report, the security vendor decided to analyze the past decade-and-a-half of
by Danny Bradbury Following hot on Mozilla’s trail, Google officially announced its own DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) experiment in Chrome this week. Mozilla recently announced that it would turn on DoH by default for users of the Firefox browser’s desktop version in the US. This provides some privacy protections compared with regular DNS queries, although as Paul
French startup Zyl has raised $1 million (€1 million) in a round led by OneRagtime. The company has developed an app that uses artificial intelligence to find the most interesting photos and videos in your photo library. Now that smartphones have been around for a while, many people have thousands of unsorted photos on their
This year, we’re excited to host the 12th annual MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit at the ARIA in Las Vegas, where fellow security experts will strategize, network, and learn about the newest and most innovative ways to ward off advanced cyberattacks. With the show nearly upon us, I’m sharing a “survival guide” for first-time attendees and anyone
Are you – and especially your children – aware of the risks that may come with sharing selfies? Social media sites are brimming with instant self-portraits, and children and teens are especially adept at taking and sharing images of themselves online. But it can be just as safely assumed that tweens and teens, and not
CISOs and CIOs need to know better than anyone the security pulse of their organizations. On the other hand, they cannot be flooded with every changing detail. Finding the right balance that enables them to clearly grasp the big picture required in making sound decisions is a task many security executives find challenging. Threat actors
In light of gig worker protections bill AB5 passing in the California State Senate last night, and amendments to AB5 passing in the Assembly this morning, Uber has made it clear it plans to do whatever it takes to keep its drivers independent contractors. “We will continue to advocate for a compromise agreement,” Uber Chief
Speaking at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in London, Gartner director analyst Sam Olyaei said that the topic of “questions on security and risk that you must be prepared to answer at your board meetings” was one of the most popular subjects. He said that the company was getting around 100 enquires a
Keeping a unified communications environment secure is no small task as the different communications tools that comprise a UC system have their own security needs. And organizations can’t push all the security responsibilities onto their UC vendor. Organizations must take steps to lock down their networks to support unified communications security. Learn how to build
by Danny Bradbury Imagine this: you’re at a party one Saturday night and, at 1 a.m. decide to send your best pal a picture of yourself doing a headstand wearing nothing but a pink tutu, slamming a litre of Smithwick’s finest from a beer bong. Unfortunately, your best pal’s name is Sue, which also happens
Relativity Space, the startup developing manufacturing technologies for entirely 3D printed rockets and space equipment, has signed its latest paying customer, the orbital transportation startup, Momentus. Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket will carry Momentus’ small and medium-sized satellite payloads on its rocket and Momentus will then move those satellites into geosynchronous orbit using its own in-space
Fact – your social media posts may affect your career, or worse case, your identity! New research from the world’s largest dedicated cybersecurity firm, McAfee, has revealed that two thirds (67%) of Aussies are embarrassed by the content that appears on their social media profiles. Yikes! And just to make the picture even more complicated,
Get your update caps on. Microsoft today released its monthly Patch Tuesday update for September 2019, patching a total of 79 security vulnerabilities in its software, of which 17 are rated critical, 61 as important, and one moderate in severity. Two of the security vulnerabilities patched by the tech giant this month are listed as
The new Apple Watch is even harder to distinguish from its predecessor than the new iPhone. Given the fact that Fitbit’s smartwatches appear more and more Apple-like with every new generation, however, maybe the company’s onto something here. Like the iPhone, Apple hasn’t touched the Watch’s design for a while now, leading one to wonder
At the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2019 in London, Andy Powell, CISO at Maersk, outlined the key lessons learned from the NotPetya malware attack the company, along with many others, suffered in 2017. “Maersk was not alone [in being hit by NotPetya] and anybody that thinks that Maersk was the single biggest example,
In many ways, biometric authentication is superior to a traditional password due to its convenience and resistance to common attack vectors. But biometric authentication still faces its fair share of threats. If a hacker gains access to a user’s biometric data, that user can’t reset their biometrics the way they might reset a compromised password.
by John E Dunn A ‘critical’ security vulnerability has been discovered in the Exim mail server that requires admins’ urgent attention. Affecting all versions from 4.80 up to and including 4.92.1, Exim’s maintainers have offered a general description of the flaw (CVE-2019-15846) discovered in July 2019 by a researcher identified as ‘Zerons’. Subsequently confirmed by
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