Tech companies are selling domains suggesting illegal sales of guns, malware

COVID-19-related domains remain a concern.

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Looking for Cyber Insurance? Know Your Eligibility

Before leaving on an extended (and expensive) vacation, I bought travel insurance. I wanted to protect myself in case I or my traveling partner tested positive for COVID-19. I had to answer a number of questions about my eligibility for such insurance before they would approve me. Nor did the insurance come cheap, but I […]

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To Retain Cybersecurity Employees, Know What Drives Them

COVID-19 may have given cybersecurity talent retention an artificial prop up over the last two years. For example, job satisfaction was on a downward trend from 2018 to 2019, but with the pandemic came a plateau in 2020 and 2021. Was the plateau due to newfound satisfaction or were there other factors, such as economic […]

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Fake WHO Safety Emails on COVID-19 Dropping Nerbian RAT Across Europe

By Deeba Ahmed
The novel Nerbian RAT (remote access trojan) is currently targeting’ entities in Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom.…
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Obama says he underestimated the threats posed by disinformation

The former president said the U.S. and other democracies helped disinformation flourish by growing complacent.

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Why Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged

My proof of COVID-19 vaccination is recorded on an easy-to-forge paper card. With little trouble, I could print a blank form, fill it out, and snap a photo. Small imperfections wouldn’t pose any problem; you can’t see whether the paper’s weight is right in a digital image. When I fly internationally, I have to show a negative COVID-19 test result. That, too, would be easy to fake. I could change the date on an old test, or put my name on someone else’s test, or even just make something up on my computer. After all, there’s no standard format for test results; airlines accept anything that looks plausible…

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