Collaborate Disseminate
American bookselling giant Barnes & Noble is contacting customers via email, warning them that its network was breached by hackers, and that sensitive information about shoppers may have been accessed. In the email to customers, Barnes & Noble … Continue reading Barnes & Noble warns customers it has been hacked, customer data may have been accessed
Digital attackers created a Magento phishing page that used JavaScript to exfiltrate the login credentials of its victims. Sucuri came across a compromised website using the filename “wp-order.php” during an investigation. This phishing page hosted wha… Continue reading JavaScript Used by Phishing Page to Steal Magento Credentials
As I had mentioned previously, this year, I’m going back to school. Not to take classes but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a decade ago and thought it was interesting, so I was excited to give it another go. Addi… Continue reading Lessons From Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 3
“Gartner projections show the growth in cybersecurity spending is slowing. Cybersecurity grew at 12% (CAGR) in 2018, and it is projected to decline to only 7% (CAGR) by 2023. Gartner clients are also reporting that after years of quarterly reporting on… Continue reading How Cybersecurity Leaders Can Understand the Value of Their Organization’s Security Solutions
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
A new variant of a sophisticated Android locker family used an innovative sequence to load its ransom note on infected devices. On October 8, Microsoft Defender Research Team revealed that it had spotted a new Android locker variant using novel techniq… Continue reading Android Locker Variant Uses Innovative Sequence to Load Ransom Note
The confirmation that US President Donald Trump has been infected by the Coronavirus, and had to spend time this weekend in hospital, has – understandably – made headlines around the world. And there are plenty of people, on both sides of the political… Continue reading Hackers disguise malware attack as new details on Donald Trump’s COVID-19 illness
As I had mentioned previously, this year, I’m going back to school. Not to take classes but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a decade ago and thought it was interesting, so I was excited to give it another go. Addi… Continue reading Lessons From Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 2
“Doubt is an unpleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.” Whilst I claim no particular knowledge of the eighteenth-century philosopher Voltaire, the quote above (which I admit to randomly stumbling upon in a completely unrelated book) stuck i… Continue reading Zero Trust Architecture: What is NIST SP 800-207 all about?
Victims of ransomware attacks could potentially receive civil penalties for making ransom payments to a growing list of threat actors. On October 1, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) revealed that it could ch… Continue reading Ransom Payments Could Result in Civil Penalties for Ransomware Victims