A 34-year-old hacking law called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) sits at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing where the defense insists the law was too vaguely written. Nathan van Buren, a former Georgia police officer, is on trial for al…
The hacker’s forum called OGUsers has ironically been a tempting target for criminals, with a series of at least three successful hacking attempts in the past couple of years: Once in May 2019, a second time in March 2020, and a third time just la…
2020 has been defined by the Covid-19 virus affecting the entire world, both online and offline. Our team has observed cybercriminals using the pandemic to their advantage, spreading scams and phishing attacks to exploit people’s weaknesses during tryi…
If there’s been one big winner of lockdown, it’s TikTok. One of the newest — and certainly most successful — social media apps to hit the scene, the app went from relative obscurity to household name as people found themselves stuck inside. Bored and w…
Remember Mirai? This four-year old botnet was the scourge of the internet and used as the launching pad for numerous DDoS attacks. Back in 2016, the botnet disrupted a German ISP, Liberia’s entire internet connection, the Dyn.com DNS services (now owne…
In an effort to staunch the flow of misinformation and disinformation surrounding the U.S. presidential election results, Facebook has tweaked its News Feed algorithm to pull more postings than usual from mainstream news sources like The New York Times…
Put simply, most people believe that the weakest link in the security supply chain is the user. This attitude has become so widely accepted that it’s almost set in stone. It is justified by the inherent unpredictability of humans; the knowledge that a …
These days, as online shopping continues to rise and rise in popularity, people hand over the credit card info to a huge range of websites. Granted, security for e-commerce and online payment has also gotten better, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t s…
With thousands of IT security vulnerabilities discovered every year, promptly installing the patches released by software vendors is critical. Yet despite this, 60% of data breaches occur where a patch was available but not applied.
In France, the emergency phone number for female victims of domestic violence, was dialed 9,906 times in April 2020 — compared to 5,098 times in the same month last year. In addition, calls from relatives and neighbors to the police to report a situati…