Cybersecurity
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As the digital footprint of businesses expands, so does their cybersecurity risk. Even though this increases potential threats, CISOs are still battling the attitude that whatever walls they’ve already put in place are good enough. That’s what CompTIA found in its overview of the state of cybersecurity. In it, nearly 2 in 5 respondents cited […]
The UK’s most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield, has been hacked into by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China, the Guardian can reveal. The astonishing disclosure and its potential effects have been consistently covered up by senior staff at the vast nuclear waste and decommissioning site, the investigation has found. The Guardian has discovered […]
The UK’s financial regulator has warned UK households struggling with the high cost of living to be on the lookout for fraudsters promising quick and easy loans. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said that 40% of adults are concerned about being able to afford Christmas spending this year, rising to half of parents (52%) with […]
ENISA published the ENISA Threat Landscape for DoS Attacks Report Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2023 ENISA published the ENISA Threat Landscape for DoS Attacks report to bring new insights to the DoS threat landscape. Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks pose a persistent and significant security risk for organizations. Over the past few years, threat actors have increasingly […]
Brand impersonation in cyber-attacks has reached new levels of sophistication, a recent research article by Abnormal Security has highlighted. Traditionally observed in financial institutions and social media sites, threat actors are now employing multi-stage attacks with a high degree of personalization. A study published by Abnormal CISO, Mike Britton, revealed a case where attackers impersonated the […]
Although US federal agencies have made progress in preparing for and responding to cyber threats, too many have failed to meet the deadline to implement incident response capabilities required by law, according to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). In a new report, published on December 4, 2023, the GAO found that 20 US federal […]
On November 22, 2023, East River Medical Imaging filed a notice of data breach with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights after determining that suspicious activity on its IT network was related to a cyberattack. In this notice, ERMI explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being […]
Dec 07, 2023The Hacker NewsEncryption / Data Privacy Meta has officially begun to roll out support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger for personal calls and one-to-one personal messages by default in what it called the “most significant milestone yet.” “This isn’t a routine security update: we rebuilt the app from the ground up, in […]
Google said it patched three vulnerabilities in a version of its Chromecast media-streaming hardware discovered by security researchers earlier this year. When chained together, the bugs could allow someone to maliciously install a custom operating system and unsigned code on the Chromecast with Google TV. Patches for the bugs — tagged as CVE-2023-48424, CVE-2023-48425 and […]