What is a Botnet
Many cyber attacks are carried out by malicious actors with the use of "Botnets". But what is a botnet? Botnet is short for "robot-network".
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More than 2,1 Million People Affected After DNA Testing Center Data Breach
An Ohio based DNA testing company has reported a data breach that lead to the leak of personal information including Social Security Numbers and banking information of 2,102,436 people.
Panasonic Network Has Been Hacked
The Japanese company Panasonic said that its network was illegally accessed by a third party on November 11 and that some data on a file server had been accessed during the intrusion.
Enhanced Automated Vulnerability Management for Cloud Workloads Announced by AWS
Newly added capabilities for the Amazon Inspector service will meet the "critical need to detect and remediate at speed" in order to secure cloud workloads. %
How to Secure Your Zoom Meetings
Zoom has around 300 million daily meeting participants! It also has security issues like "Zoom bombings" where uninvited guests may show up at meetings and another more "creepy" vulnerability which left millions of users exposed, which offered access to user's cameras and microphones.
Google Warns for Hacked Cloud Accounts Used for Crypto Mining
recently launched Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) provided specific insights, such as when malicious hackers exploit improperly-secured cloud instances to download cryptocurrency mining software to the system—sometimes within 22 seconds of being compromised.
Marine Services Provider Swire Pacific Offshore suffers data breach following cyber-attack
SPO has taken immediate actions to reinforce existing security measures and to mitigate the potential impact of the incident. SPO has reported the incident to the relevant authorities and will work closely with them in relation to the incident. SPO is contacting potentially affected parties to in…
Apple sues company known for hacking iPhones
Apple sues company known for hacking iPhones on behalf of governments. An Israeli firm called NSO Group, provided software to government agencies and law enforcement that enables them to hack iPhones and read the data on them, including messages and other communications.
More than Half of Organizations Are Not Effectively Defending Against Cyberattacks
According to a recent Accenture study, more than half of organizations are not effectively defending against cyberattacks.
Researcher Publishes Exploit Affecting All Windows Versions
A security researcher has published a public exploit on Github that allows a low privileged user on all client and server windows operating systems, to gain administrative rights.
GoDaddy Data Breach Affects 1.2 Million Customer Accounts
The company detected unauthorized access to its systems where customer's Wordpress servers are hosted and managed.
88% of Boards of Directors View Cybersecurity as a Business Risk
The influx of ransomware and supply chain attacks seen throughout 2021, many of which targeted operation- and mission-critical environments, should be a wake-up call that security is a business issue, and not just another problem for IT to solve
Robinhood revealed that a data breach last week exposed millions of customers’ emails and other personal information
Robinhood said that hackers obtained around 5 million email addresses and full names for different group of approximately two million people.
Watch Out Shoppers! Number of Malicious Shopping Websites Jumps 178% ahead of Black Friday Sales
Check Point Research spotted over 5300 malicious websites per week, marking it the highest since the beginning of 2021. The number of malicious websites made to trick you and obtaining your credit card and your login information, many times for well known websites as amazon.
The King of Most Common Passwords Still Sits on its Throne
NordPass has published a study with the top 200 most common passwords for 2021. The study covered 50 countries.
FBI Email System Hacked and Sent out Fake Cyber Attack Alerts
FBI has confirmed that an unnamed actor was able to gain access to the FBI's Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP) to send the emails to thousands of recipients about a fake cyberattack.
The Rise Of Killware
The objective of the attacker is to cause harm to humans using killware in the Operational Technology environment. Many similar attacks have been identified since the year 2000, even though they were not called killware back then.
New Azure AD Bug Allows Attackers Brute-Force Passwords
An unpatched security weakness in Azure Active Directory might be leveraged by attackers to conduct undetected brute-force attacks, according to security researchers.