As the password day is here to make us remember about security, Onfido shows that users have dangerous routines. The company conducted a poll in the USA, France, Germany and UK. Most of the over 3,000 respondents said that password creation was cumbersome due to security…
Attackers use Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to implement malicious payloads on Windows computers. Of course, they do this stealthily. A recent research proves that attackers use an unknown persistence mechanism which shows they used BITS to launch…
Internet crimes increased by more than 35% in the US
March 18, 2021
The number of internet crimes in the U.S. increased by over 300,000, according to the complaints, in 2020. FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center mentioned that the losses exceeded $4.2 billion. FBI released its report on internet crimes According to FBI’s 2020…
Hackers put the COVID-19 vaccine integrity at risk
December 4, 2020
The COVID-19 vaccine storage and shipment became the new target of hackers, according to the IBM researchers. This happens just after the UK became the first country to authorise the Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine and the first people will take it next week.
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Security attacks target pharma industry for COVID-19 vaccines
November 19, 2020
The number of aggressive security attacks on both the biotech and pharmaceutical industry have risen by 50%, in 2020.
According to a new report from BlueVoyant, these things also happen as recent news give more hope regarding the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
Thus…
Google will open a new data centre in Poland and will be training 10,000 people only this year. Thus, the new data centre should support cloud services.
The company will invest about two billion dollars, according to Magdalena Dziewguc, head of Google Cloud business…
Remote work seems to have increased productivity of the employees, during the pandemic. Although there were security issues and concerns regarding this way of working, more than 38% of the companies in the U.S.A. observed productivity gains. Moreover, 84% of them consider…
Malware hits Euro Cup and Olympics Ticket Reseller
January 27, 2020
JavaScript that steals payment card data hit a re-seller of tickets for Euro Cup and Olympics. The code survived for at least 50 days on one of the websites. On the other one, it lasted for two weeks. This ended due to the intervention of two security specialists.
The…
Carrotball attacks U.S. Agency
January 24, 2020
Carrotball – a malware downloader, harboured in spear phishing emails targeted a U.S. government agency. Researchers consider that the emails came from the Konni Group APT. The campaign, called “Fractured Statue”, involved six unique malicious document lures, as…
Parental control apps are parent’s co-partner in raising today’s tech-crazy, screen hooked children.
Shockingly, this generation is more active on their screen lives rather than with their real lives. And we, parents, are left with no choice but to accept this…