The human operating system continues to be the key role in cybersecurity incidents and data breaches, as revealed by Data Breach Digest by Verizon: Data breaches are complex affairs often involving some combination of human factors, hardware devices, exploited configurations…
Dr. Mansur Hasib has been helping executives transform their organizations through digital leadership and cybersecurity strategy in healthcare, biotechnology, education, and energy. Dr. Hasib is a Doctor of Science in Cybersecurity (IA), and holds the prestigious CISSP, PMP, and CPHIMS…
Quite a few banks have been targeted in the so-called watering hole attacks. The attacks from January against Polish institutions where a booby-trapped site of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority was used were just the beginning of a series of…
Have you heard of RansomFree? It is a free anti-ransomware protection program developed by Cybereason that runs on Windows 7, 8, and 10, Windows 2010 R2, Windows 2008 R2, and is suitable for both business and home users. During the…
ZDNet has come across a malicious ad that looked like an Amazon one. More particularly, the ad was spoofed to imitate a legit Amazon ad. Fortunately, it didn’t serve malware upon clicking but redirected users to a Windows tech support…
According to Moscow-based forensics company Elcomsoft, Apple’s iCloud has been keeping users’ deleted internet browsing histories, records older than a year included. The company came to this conclusion after it deleted Safari browser histories from iCloud accounts and was able…
Mirai botnet has now been equipped with a Windows variant, Trojan.Mirai.1, as revealed by security researchers at Dr. Web. The new variant targets Windows and can compromise more ports than its Linux counterpart. Trojan.Mirai.1 is also infecting IoT devices and…
At the end of January, 2017, Troy Hunt said that “HTTPS adoption has now reached the moment of critical mass where it’s gathering enough momentum that it will very shortly become “the norm” rather than the exception it so frequently…
Google is about to limit the visibility or completely remove apps from Google Play Store that violate their User Data policy. The Next Web has reported that Google has been sending noticed to developers across the world stating the company’s…
Tech support scams, especially those over the phone, have tricked too many users into giving away personal and payment information, among other negative outcomes. Windows Support tech support scams appear to be the most popular ones. Plenty of Windows users…
AKBuilder is the name of the latest exploit kit currently being sold in underground markets and advertised in YouTube videos, as revealed by SophosLabs. AKBuilder is actively being deployed alongside two other popular exploit builders – Microsoft Word Intruder and…
Previously associated with nation-sponsored attacks like the Stuxnet worm, fileless malware is now going mainstream. According to an upcoming Kaspersky Lab research, networks of at least 140 banks have been infected by fileless malware that relies on in-memory design to…
CityLab has obtained a document proving that Facebook has been subpoenaed by the D.C. police for information concerning protesters demonstrating against the inauguration of President Donald Trump: On Wednesday, one of the individuals who was arrested at protests over the…
According to Will Strafach, CEO of Sudo Security Group, a number of iOS apps that are supposed to encrypt user data don’t do it accurately, and are thus exposing their users. The researcher has uncovered 76 iOS apps vulnerable to…
Apparently, two researchers, Collin Anderson and Claudio Guarnieri, have come across a piece of Mac malware supposedly written by Iranian state-sponsored hackers. The researchers have authored a specific report going into detail about the malware. Their discovery highlights the depths…
The biometrics market is expected to continue growing in 2017 and beyond. Its growth is driven mainly by the eagerness of organizations to improve the authentication and identification of users. That being said, it’s no wonder that biometrics is quickly…
An exploit which is zero-day related has been discovered in Windows 10’s versions. The exploit is nothing crucial or serious to be worried about, but Microsoft employees have publicly revealed that this particular exploit conceals multiple risks that may endanger…
2016 has seen the biggest volume of vulnerabilities as revealed by a new report. 15,000 flaws have been catalogued by Risk Based Security. The volume outnumbers the flaws covered by CVE and National Vulnerability Database by more than 6,500, HelpNet…
Remember the San Bernadino shooter? Who doesn’t. A while back, his iPhone was cracked by a private company, named Cellebrite who managed to help FBI for the case. Despite the efforts of apple to preserve privacy, Cellebrite has developed tools…
VPN is surely a great service. It allows users to tunnel their way through a safe network and remain private and secure while browsing online. This makes VPN the reason for many developers to focus on creating applications that offer…
