The general belief for a very long time has been that macOS is safer than Windows. However, new statistics reveal that the number of Mac threats is increasing faster than the number of Windows threats. According to the 2020 Malwarebytes…
Remote working provides employees with an improved work-life balance, location flexibility, and greater job opportunities. Unfortunately for employers, they can be a cybersecurity nightmare if not handled correctly. To begin approaching cybersecurity management for remote workers, here are five threats…
Canada is one of several countries that launched investigations regarding Facebook’s privacy practices following the Cambridge Analytics scandal. It comes to no one’s surprise that currently Canada’s privacy commissioner is taking Facebook to court in an attempt to force the…
When you think of protecting your data, does it occur to you that your data also needs physical protection? This article gives valuable insight into what to do when your data is in danger due to physical accidents. Your mobile…
A new Imperva report presents a detailed analysis of the DDoS threat landscape in 2019. The report is based on statistical data of 3,643 network layer and 42,390 application layer DDoS attacks, mitigated by the company. The data was gathered…
CVE-2020-0022 is a potentially dangerous remote code execution vulnerability in Bluetooth. The bug is one of the fixes in the February security updates for Android. The flaw was unearthed and reported by German security researchers from ERNW. CVE-2020-0022: What Is…
Nowadays most of us have accepted that we will regularly be tracked as we go about our daily lives. Virtually everything we do on digital devices, especially when we are connected to the internet, is followed by someone somewhere. In…
Exploiting a viral topic for malicious purposes is something quite often seen is spam campaigns. This is what is happening now with the new strain of the coronavirus. A new spam, botnet-driven campaign is spreading malicious files masqueraded as documents…
The operators of TrickBot Trojan have once again updated its malicious code, and it is now capable of leveraging a new Windows 10 UAC bypass. Through this, the Trojan is capable of executing itself with elevated privileges without displaying a…
A new report by Swiss web security company ImmuniWeb focuses on the state of security of the world’s 100 biggest airports. The results of the analysis reveal that 97 of 100 airports lack efficient protection in their systems to defend…
Recently news broke about an intrusion that happened back in October last year when criminals were able to break into the LiveRamp Facebook Marketing Agency. This is especially dangerous as the criminals can access sensitive information including payment data. Apparently…
A new security analysis shows that the popular LoRaWAN IoT protocol can be easily hacked thus exposing the security of the network of devices. This is especially worrying as this is one of the most popular implementations of communications used…
In 2019, Google has paid more than $6.5 million in rewards as part of its Vulnerability Reward Programs. 461 researchers reported bugs and received bounties, the biggest one of which is $201,000, Google said in a blog post. “We paid…
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020, Amazon announced several new products and services related to vehicles, including: – Alexa integrations in cars: In addition to their Alexa integrations in vehicles from Toyota, Ford, Audi and BMW, Alexa will…
We are living in a world that is heavily dependent on technology and the innovations of tech firms progressively amassing more power than any one of us in our right minds should be comfortable with. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung:…
Appleinsider has reported that FBI has managed to succeed in breaking the encryption of the smartphone iPhone 11 Pro Max without asking Apple for help. This still does not explain why Apple has been asked by the FBI in the…
Mobile biometrics have been on the rise since Apple released Touch ID in 2013. After its release, the global market for mobile biometrics has earned over $14 billion. To paint a better picture, 57% of today’s available apps feature a…
An unknown criminal or hacking group has leaked a very large list of Telnet credentials from IoT devices. They are mostly from consumer and commonly used networking hardware — routers, servers, access points and etc. The list was posted on…
70,000 Tinder photos of women are being circulated on an underground forum typically used for selling malware. The photos are entirely of women, and cybersecurity researchers believe the photos could be used for malicious purposes. The incident was first reported…
Australia has been hit by a serious data breach that took place on December 12, 2019. The largest member-owned bank in Western Australia, P&N Bank has been affected, when its CRM system was accessed by threat actors as a consequence.…
