Over 20 web hosting providers offering cheap VPSes have notified customers yesterday that they plan to shut down temporarily on Monday. This time limit gives clients just two days to download data …
Moscow Cops Sell Access to City CCTV, Facial Recognition Data
The investigative news outlet MBKh Media has found that access to Moscow's surveillance technology is being sold on dark web forums and chatrooms. The surveillance access available contains video …
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Microsoft Security: Password Problem Affecting 44 Million Users Revealed
The Microsoft threat team recently analyzed a database that contained leaked login credentials of over 44 million users, exposed from multiple security breaches. Microsoft disclosed that the …
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Crooks are exploiting unpatched Android flaw to drain users’ bank accounts
Hackers are taking advantage of StrandHogg, a recently publicized Android vulnerability, to steal banking credentials and empty accounts. European security company Wultra warns that several banks in …
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DHS to Require Federal Agencies to Set Vulnerability Disclosure Policies
Under the Department of Homeland Security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a draft document that mandates vulnerability disclosure and outlines strategies for …
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Most businesses have yet to allocate a CCPA compliance budget
A recent survey by Egress shows that only 48% of organizations plan to meet the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance deadline of January 1 2020, including 30% of firms that are already …
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Cybercriminals targeting e-commerce website vulnerabilities this holiday season
98% of Alexa 1000 websites have not adopted sufficient client-side cybersecurity measures to prevent threat actors from attacking the websites to carry out personal, financial and credential theft, a …
Nominet Tackles Cybercrime with 29,000 .UK Domain Suspensions
Nominet suspended 29,000 .uk domains over the past year, aiming to clean up Britain's domain name space. The .uk registry reportedly took down 28,937 domains as a result of criminal activity between …
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1.19 billion confidential medical images available on the internet
An ongoing study by Greenbone researched the security of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) servers used by health providers to store imaging records. In the US, Greenbone security …
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Google: BigQuery and GCE users get these new controls over sensitive cloud data
Google announced an alternative to existing key management services offered by Google cloud; External Key Manager. To give companies more control of encrypted data, External Key Manager will allow …