New court documents relating to the massive Capital One data breach that impacts 106 million people in the US and Canada show that Paige A. Thompson, who is suspected of carrying out the hack, may …
Fewer Than Half of States Take These Two Election Security Precautions
A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice shows that only 24 US states are implementing two vital measures to bolster election security before the 2020 presidential election. Security experts …
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Lateral Phishing Attacks: A Growing Threat to the Enterprise
A new study by Barracuda sheds light on the rise of lateral phishing campaigns in which one or more compromised employee accounts in an organization are used to target other employees in the same …
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Norman Cryptominer Employs Sophisticated Obfuscation Tactics
Security researchers with Varonis have spotted a sophisticated new strain of cryptomining malware that uses various obfuscation tactics in order to avoid detection. The researchers describe the …
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Foreign power was behind cyber attack on Czech ministry: Senate
In June of this year, the Czech Foreign Ministry suffered a cyberattack that originated in Russia, a Czech newspaper reported earlier this week. On Tuesday, the Czech Senate Committee on Foreign …
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New Data Breach Has Exposed Millions Of Fingerprint And Facial Recognition Records: Report
A new report by security researchers at Vpnmentor warns that Suprema, a self-declared "leading global provider of biometrics and security," has left a massive biometric database exposed to the …
Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio Chats
Facebook let hundreds of third-party contractors listen to snippets of user recordings, various insiders have said. The contractors were told to transcribe users' conversations, but did not learn the …
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Shades of BlueKeep: Wormable Remote Desktop Bugs Top August Patch Tuesday List
As part of August's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft made fixes for 93 security vulnerabilities available. 29 issues are critical, including four remote code-execution (RCE) flaws in Remote Desktop Services …
Energy Department Never Blacklists Risky Nuclear Tech Vendors, GAO Says
Even though the US Secretary of Energy has the authority to ban nuclear tech vendors that “present a significant supply chain risk,” the Energy Department has not blacklisted a single risky vendor …
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Link between personality type and vulnerabilities to cybercrime
A new ESET report shows that just 42% of organizations provide training on compliance issues as part of their cybersecurity strategy, even though such training is vital for ensuring that user data is …
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