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Dark Web marketplaces are selling remote access to desktop PCs for as little as $3, allowing criminals to spy on firms without resorting to malware. The sale of remote access credentials is allowing attackers to steal data from organisations in Read More …
Kaspersky Lab — We have nothing to hide! Russia-based Antivirus firm hits back with what it calls a “comprehensive transparency initiative,” to allow independent third-party review of its source code and internal processes to win back the trust of customers and infosec Read More …
Hackers have been targeting the nuclear, energy, aviation, water and critical manufacturing industries since May, according to Reuters. It’s even serious enough for Homeland Security and the FBI to email firms most at risk of attacks, warning them that a group of Read More …
The personal information of about 30 million South Africans has been compromised. This was revealed by Australian-based IT security researcher Troy Hunt. He created the Have I been pwned? platform as a free resource for anyone to quickly assess if they may have been put at risk due Read More …
An advisory from Cisco issued last Friday, October 13th, gave us the heads-up on a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). The bug is designated CVE-2017-15265, but its Mitre entry was still marked “reserved” at the time Read More …
Last month, the European Commission released a report on “Resilience, Deterrence and Defence: Building strong cybersecurity for the EU”. GRI examines the strengths and weaknesses of this proposed strategy. The strategy is based on three principles: building greater resistance against cyber vulnerabilities, Read More …
Cyber security community called on to help educate capital’s small businesses about cyber crime and give them practical advice London is calling on the cyber security community to help keep the city’s more than one million small businesses safe from Read More …
Swedish transport authorities were hit by a cyber attack on Thursday morning, a day after trains were delayed as a result of another attack on IT systems monitoring railway traffic. The website of Sweden’s Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) was partially down Read More …
A cyber attack brought down the the National Lottery website last night, Camelot has admitted. The website was down for more than an hour-and-a-half yesterday evening, due to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack – when hackers flooded the website with online traffic. Read More …
“Always keep your operating system and software up-to-date.” This is one of the most popular and critical advice that every security expert strongly suggests you to follow to prevent yourself from major cyber attacks. However, even if you attempt to Read More …
