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Chinese smartwatches for kids: Just one of this decade’s objectively terrible ideas.
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In the dog-days of last week, a shadowy group of secret sources in U.S. Cyber Command whispered to reporters that they’d disrupted a huge, ransomware-spewing botnet.
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As the world of AI and deepfake technology grows more complex, the risk that deepfakes pose to firms and individuals grows increasingly potent. This growing sophistication of the latest software and algorithms has allowed malicious hackers, scammers an… Continue reading Deepfake Voice Technology Iterates on Old Phishing Strategies
Google stands accused of agreeing to overly-broad search warrants, which might violate the Fourth Amendment.
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Companies that find their files, data or networks locked by a malicious actor demanding an extortion payment now have a new worry in their incident response: The U.S. Department of Treasury. On Oct. 1, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset… Continue reading Incident Response: Pay a Ransom, Go to Jail
Europol has published its seventh Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), the agency’s annual cybercrime report containing updates on the latest trends and effects of cybercrime in the European Union and beyond. Much has changed since last … Continue reading COVID-19 Exacerbated Existing Cybercrime Patterns, Europol Says
Key takeaways CVE-2020-6287 is a vulnerability present in SAP NetWeaver software that hinges on a missing authentication check. Successful weaponization of this vulnerability would allow attackers to abuse internet-facing SAP systems in a way that ena… Continue reading The RECON Vulnerability and related TTPs
Can a company be sued for reporting a data breach in which the data was never used and destroyed? In May, cloud provider Blackbaud was the victim of a ransomware attack designed to lock it out of accessing its own data and servers. The company notifie… Continue reading The High Cost of Reporting a Non-Reportable Data Breach
This week began with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) providing a view and analysis into thousands of financial transactions contained within Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) that were leaked from with the U.S. FinCEN… Continue reading The FINCEN Files Leakage
Members of Shopify’s support team abused access to company network Customer contact information and order details accessed FBI and international law enforcement agencies are investigating Shopify, the major ecommerce platform which powers many online s… Continue reading Rogue Shopify Staff Accessed Customer Records, Says Ecommerce Platform Investigating Security Breach