2019 was filled with cybersecurity news, with fresh headlines every day of ransomware and data breaches, Internet of Things incidents and scam mobile apps. The bar for sheer weirdness was high. Here are a dozen stories that managed to clear it. &n…
Four ransomware cyberattacks have struck U.S. municipalities this December, and the month is not over yet. The Avast Blog reported on the Dec. 7 attack against Pensacola, Fla., but since then, ransomware has also hit New Orleans (Dec. 13), the Sacramen…
Four ransomware cyberattacks have struck U.S. municipalities this December, and the month is not over yet. The Avast Blog reported on the Dec. 7 attack against Pensacola, Fla., but since then, ransomware has also hit New Orleans (Dec. 13), the Sacramen…
A chilling incident in which a hacker harassed a child through a Mississippi family’s Ring security system is the latest event pointing out the need for home network security, Avast’s Leena Elias says.
A chilling incident in which a hacker harassed a child through a Mississippi family’s Ring security system is the latest event pointing out the need for home network security, Avast’s Leena Elias says.
As digital technologies enable better ways of working, there are more devices connecting to networks and more employees working outside the corporate office than ever before. One look at the exploding Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) market — expecte…
As digital technologies enable better ways of working, there are more devices connecting to networks and more employees working outside the corporate office than ever before. One look at the exploding Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) market — expecte…
The city of Pensacola, Fla. is recovering from a ransomware attack by the Maze group, which shut down the city the day after a shooting at its Naval Air Station. Maze, which has launched other recent U.S. ransomware attacks, told Bleeping Computer the …
New data shows that good work-from-home cybersecurity habits have never been a more relevant topic than right now, in the 2019 holiday season.
The end-of-year online buying season is a bank fraud frenzy. This used to be done by criminals using stolen or cloned payment cards in person, via card-present (CP) fraudulent transactions. The introduction of chip-based Europay, Mastercard, and Visa (…