Collaborate Disseminate
Hundreds of thousands of security cameras are believed to be vulnerable to a zero-day vulnerability that could allow hackers to spy on feeds and even tamper with video surveillance recordings.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
Continue reading ‘Peekaboo’ zero-day lets hackers view and alter surveillance camera footage
Three men who operated and controlled the notorious Mirai botnet in October 2016 have been sentenced to five years of probation.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading The makers of the Mirai IoT-hijacking botnet are sentenced
Three men who operated and controlled the notorious Mirai botnet in October 2016 have been sentenced to five years of probation.
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If you were to make a list of the most common causes of security breaches, it is phishing attacks that would surely dominate.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Continue reading Your business should be more afraid of phishing than malware
The headlines love to talk about sophisticated hacking gangs, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities to break their way into businesses and steal corporate data.
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The US Department of State has confirmed that it has suffered a data breach which exposed the personally identifiable information of some employees.
Continue reading US Dept of State says attack on email system exposed employees’ personal data
During the last few months, many of us will have received emails that try to extract a ransom via an anonymous cryptocurrency.
But as email blackmailers make big winnings, others are trying to cash in on the craze.
Continue reading Another wave of sextortion emails
Officials at Bristol Airport in the UK declined to pay a ransom demand from extortionists who attacked its computer systems late last week, forcing them to resort to whiteboards and public address systems to communicate with travellers.
Continue reading Bristol Airport says it did not pay any ransom to recover from cyber attack
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A security researcher has revealed a method of crashing and restarting iPhones and iPads, with just a few lines of code that could be added to any webpage.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading How to crash and restart an iPhone with a CSS-based web attack