Tag: security
US government sues SolarWinds for security failings
Three years after the major cyber-incident at SolarWinds, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing the firm. In the lawsuit, the government agency alleges that the company and its executive staff knew their systems’ security was an utter disaster for months, if not years before the data breach…
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US government orders financial firms to report data breaches in less than 30 days
All non-banking financial institutions in the United States will soon have 30 days to report a data breach, something that apparently they weren’t obliged to do before, under new regulations from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC recently amended its Safeguards Rules to include non-banking financial institutions such…
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Hackers could track you across the globe due to this worrying smartphone security flaw
Hackers can use the technology that makes cellphone roaming possible to pinpoint user locations and track people around the world, a new report from University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab has claimed. The researchers argue that the underlying technology is so full of holes that it’s practically inviting malicious actors to…
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Watch out – sharing a Wikipedia link on Slack could be a serious security no-no
Cybersecurity researchers from eSentire have discovered a glitch in how Slack renders Wikipedia articles that could be abused to trick users into opening malware-laden websites. In popular messaging apps, including Slack, when a user forgets to add a space between a full stop and the first letter of the next…
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Windows PCs are being targeted with a nasty new malware – here’s what you need to know
Cybersecurity researchers have observed hackers abusing MSIX Windows app package files to distribute malware. MSIX is a relatively new, unified packaging format, which developers can utilize to create secure and high-performing applications across platforms. According to experts from Elastic Security Labs, someone’s been distributing MSIX files pretending to be popular…
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One of the most dangerous ransomware kits around might have just gotten a rebrand
There is a good chance that one of the world’s most dangerous ransomware operators out there – Hive – has just gotten a rebrand. Earlier this month, security researchers spotted a new player in the ransomware game, called Hunters International. The group doesn’t focus on encrypting their victims’ endpoints as…
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