Cyberthreats Your Business Isn’t Prepared For

You have backups in the event your business is hit by ransomware. You have prepared PR statements should there be any kind of customer data breach. You have been careful to keep all software updated, and you train your employees on cyber hygiene at lea… Continue reading Cyberthreats Your Business Isn’t Prepared For

The End of CoinHive and the Rise of Cryptojacking

CoinHive is a service that was created in September 2017. It allows users to mine Monero cryptocurrency using JavaScript. CoinHive has remarkably changed the income models of content developers over the course of its 18 month-long adventure. However, d… Continue reading The End of CoinHive and the Rise of Cryptojacking

Impact of Cybercrime on Education Industry

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Cybersecurity for the Public Interest

The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. On the other are almost every cryptographer… Continue reading Cybersecurity for the Public Interest

Hundreds of Vulnerable Docker Hosts Exploited by Cryptocurrency Miners

Docker is a technology that allows you to perform operating system level virtualization. An incredible number of companies and production hosts are running Docker to develop, deploy and run applications inside containers. You can interact with Docker v… Continue reading Hundreds of Vulnerable Docker Hosts Exploited by Cryptocurrency Miners

CoinHive crypto-mining service announces shutdown

CoinHive, hackers’ favorite crypto-mining service, has announced it is shutting down operations next month, saying it can no longer make a profit. Extensively used by bad actors to conduct cryptojacking campaigns, but also by legitimate users to … Continue reading CoinHive crypto-mining service announces shutdown

Bitglass Security Spotlight: Apple, Cryptocurrency, and Mass Breaches

Here are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks: 

Apple app developers advised to reveal and remove screen recording code
60% of cryptocurrency public hacks claimed by two major hacker groups
617 million user accounts placed for sale on d… Continue reading Bitglass Security Spotlight: Apple, Cryptocurrency, and Mass Breaches

Holy Bits, Coderperson!

via Mike Orcutt, reporting for the MIT Technology Review brings today’s Must Read post to our attention on this beautiful Monday morning. Apparently, the highly touted immutability and repudiation-resistant Blockchain, is not completely immune to clev… Continue reading Holy Bits, Coderperson!

New Cybersecurity Trends Aggravate CISO’s Stress

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