Collaborate Disseminate
This week Europol coordinated the arrests of six suspects in two nations accused of running a cryptocurrency ring that stole at least $28 million in Bitcoins.
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An airline’s privacy policy isn’t an enforceable contract and it can use customer data for any purpose, a California court has ruled. If a company promises it will only use your data for one purpose and it will protect your data, then suff… Continue reading Court Rules Airline Not Bound By Privacy Policy
Now and then a named cybersecurity threat enters public conversation, making headlines with a colorful name like WannaCry, Bad Rabbit, or RobbinHood. (You have to admire hackers’ creativity when it comes to naming these things.) A new name h… Continue reading What is BlueKeep And Why Should I Care? – Avast
In cyberwar, there is a fine line between acts of war and espionage On June 14, the New York Times reported that U.S. active cyber agents had demonstrated their ability to penetrate the security of a Russian power utility system and had inserted U.S.-… Continue reading The Legality of Waging War in Cyberspace
If the government wants to track your location for hours, days, weeks, months or even years, it has various tools at its disposal: It can commit the resources of teams of detectives to follow you around. It can install a beeper tracker into some devic… Continue reading Supreme Court Cell Privacy Ruling Thwarted
On January 28th 2018, our analysts on watch saw a small blip pop up on the Bitdefender Threat Map. It was one of millions of blips we see daily here at Bitdefender, but that blip marked the birth of a new family of ransomware that would cause great pai… Continue reading Good riddance, GandCrab! We’re still fixing the mess you left behind.
4.6M Evernote users put at risk
Cybersecurity watchdogs discovered a critical flaw in the popular organization app Evernote, reported Bleeping Computer. The vulnerability allows attackers to access sensitive information stored on third-party sites conn… Continue reading Flaw in Evernote Chrome Ext Put 4.6M at Risk | Avast
Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has come under sustained denial-of-service attack. The DDoS was traced to IP addresses in China.
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One of the largest tech companies in the world, the U.S. government, and cybersecurity professionals are all fervently urging computer users to apply an easy patch that could prevent a vulnerability known as BlueKeep from becoming a major cybersecurity… Continue reading Avast Report May Explain Why Users Are Resisting Microsoft’s BlueKeep Patch | Avast
Next year’s US elections will be no more secure than in 2016. That’s the depressing conclusion from reports out this week.
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