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While “Nigerian princes” abound on the internet in some of the oldest known scams, there has been only one Bill Gates and one Elon Musk. Until now. Hundreds of crypto users looking to make a quick buck were scammed by criminals impersonatin… Continue reading Hackers made $5,000 a night off crypto users by impersonating Elon Musk and Bill Gates
Doctors can’t prescribe proper treatment for patients without identifying and analyzing symptoms to make a clinical diagnosis. It’s the same for CISOs, who are responsible for their organization’s digital health.
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The deadline for full compliance with the European data protection law is right around the corner, but businesses still lack awareness and must overcome many security oversights. Surprisingly, as few as 38 percent of companies in the UK have actua… Continue reading 2018 is the year of GDPR and NIS compliance; enterprises still not ready
The Indian government doesn’t recognize bitcoin as legal tender and is fully committed to eliminating cryptocurrency payments from its system, Bloomberg writes. Government officials have repeatedly called cryptocurrency payments mere ‘Ponzi… Continue reading India bans cryptocurrencies, but will further explore blockchain
Mozilla Firefox released an update to patch its open-source web browser after developer Johann Hofmann detected a critical HTML flaw that could allow hackers to exploit the browser remotely. The vulnerability only affected the desktop version of Firefo… Continue reading Patch released to fix Firefox arbitrary code execution vulnerability
Google is working hard at stopping malware from sneaking into its Play Store to abuse billions of Android users. The number of malicious apps removed from the store rose more than 70 percent in 2017 from 2016 to 700,000, thanks to an improved machine l… Continue reading Google used machine learning to remove over 700,000 malicious apps from its store in 2017
A critical encryption vulnerability in Lenovo’s ThinkPad Manager Pro software exposes laptops running Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 could allow hackers access into a user’s computer by bypassing fingerprint recognition, the company confirmed last w… Continue reading Major security flaw in Lenovo’s ThinkPad Manager allows hackers access into your laptop
Government CIOs have a full agenda for 2018, including top investments in cloud services (19%), cybersecurity (17%) and big data analytics (16%), according to Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey. The predictions are based on interviews with 3,1… Continue reading Cloud computing, cybersecurity top investments for government CIOs in 2018
Government CIOs have a full agenda for 2018, including top investments in cloud services (19%), cybersecurity (17%) and big data analytics (16%), according to Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey. The predictions are based on interviews with 3,1… Continue reading Cloud computing, cybersecurity top investments for government CIOs in 2018
Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents arrested a Russian national in Stavropol on Sunday for launching a large malware campaign targeting gas stations in southern Russia, informs Russian news outlet Rosbalt. According to the investigation,… Continue reading Hacker uses malware to steal, resell gas in major Russian fraud scheme