ES&S, the top producer of voting machines used in the United States, has said that it will stop selling outdated paperless voting machines that are known to be vulnerable to cyberattacks. In …
Most e-commerce websites running Magento at high risk of cybercrime
A new report by Foregenix indicates that reliance on the highly popular open-source e-commerce platform Magento can put small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) at risk of cyberattacks. A whopping 87% of …
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Fortune 500 company leaked 264GB in client, payment data
Researchers with vpnMentor recently discovered that Fortune 500 firm Tech Data leaked 264GB worth of customer and business data via an unsecured server. The server exposed personal data of employees …
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New user keystroke impersonation attack uses AI to evade detection
Security researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a new attack technique that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to let compromised USB keyboards generate malicious …
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China Routed Traffic from European Carriers for Two Hours
Due to a temporary issue at Safe Host, a Swiss data center collocation company, the mobile traffic of various European carriers was accidentally routed through China Telecom for more than 2 hours last …
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The Key to a Defensible Cyberspace – A Look at the Work of Jason Healey and the NY Cyber Task Force
Though New York is one of 23 states to establish an official cybersecurity task force through executive order or legislation, the Governor’s Cybersecurity Advisory Board should not be confused with …
The Minefield of Corporate Email
Even though the concept of spam is about 40 years old and phishing campaigns have been around for over 30 years, email-based attacks remain a massive problem for corporations and individual users …
Microsoft Warns of Campaign Exploiting 2017 Bug
Microsoft is urging users to update a two-year-old vulnerability that is being used in a fresh wave of attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-11882, was patched in 2017, but many unpatched systems …
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Blacklisted Huawei Loses Facebook, Instagram And WhatsApp Preinstalled Apps
As a result of the recent US ban on Huawei telecommunications products, Facebook has decided that the company "is no longer allowing preinstallation of its apps on Huawei phones." The measure does not …
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Hackers take aim at Fortune 500 companies on the Dark Web
Bromium has released a new study on the dark web cybercrime economy, which indicates that underground web listings selling information that could damage major companies increased by 20% since 2016. …
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