Tenable: Over 40 Billion Records Exposed in 2021
Over 40 billion records were exposed in cyber incidents during 2021, up nearly 78% from 2020
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The New Norm: Parents Digitally Monitoring Their Children
The majority of parents participated in an online survey responded that they are digitally monitoring their children.
Hackers Demand Ransom for Hijacked Instagram Accounts
Hackers then demand ransom to be paid for the hijacked Instagram accounts.
13 Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Added to CISA Catalog
CISA has added 13 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence that threat actors are actively exploiting the vulnerabilities.
515,000 People Affected By Red Cross Data Breach
Over 515,000 people are affected by the Red Cross data breach incident. The ICRC has no information on who carried out the attack.
53% of Connected Medical Devices Have Serious Vulnerabilities
Critical device risks in hospital environments leave hospitals and patients vulnerable to cyber attacks and data security issues.
Hackers Using Azure and AWS to Spread RATs
Researchers from Cisco Talos Intelligence found that hackers are using public cloud providers like Azure and AWS to spread RATs.
CISCO Recently Patched Critical Vulnerabilities
Cisco has patched a pair of vulnerabilities in its telco-focused Cisco Redundancy Configuration Manager (RCM) for Cisco StarOS software, including a critical flaw that presented a remote code execution risk.
Suspected Hacker Attack on Greek Parliament
A temporary shutdown of the legislature's web mail followed the hack of 60 Greek Parliament emails on Friday.
IT Company Fined for Massive Data Breach of Voters Information
The company had failed to notify the personal data breach to the data protection commissioner within the deadline stipulated by law. Nor had it informed victims of the breach that they had been affected.
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Remains Unpatched
Security researchers discovered that the list of locations excluded from Microsoft Defender scan is unprotected and accessible to any local user.
New Safari Vulnerability Can Leak Recent Browsing History and Some of your Google Account Information
A new Safari vulnerability disclosed by FingerprintJS, can leak recent browsing history and some information of your logged-in Google account.
You Need to Patch Windows Remote Desktop Vulnerability Now
This vulnerability enables any standard unprivileged user connected to a remote machine via remote desktop to gain file system access to the client machines
What are Dependency Confusion Attacks?
A dependency confusion attack occurs when a software installer script is tricked into pulling malicious code file from a public repository instead of the intended file of the same name from an internal repository.
FBI Warning on Google Voice Authentication Scams
FBI has issued a warning regarding a new scam utilizing Google voice authentication.The scam targets people who share their numbers publicly.
Huge Increase of WordPress Vulnerabilities in 2021
A huge increase of 142% of WordPress vulnerabilities in 2021 compare to 2020. Most of them exploitable.
Patch Microsoft Critical Flaw Now
Microsoft recommends that you install the latest security updates which will patch the critical flaw now.
Indian Hackers Scored an Embarrassing Own Goal
Indian hackers infected themselves with their own RAT. Making it possible for security researchers to gather information on their methods.