Category Security

The world’s most famous digital library has suffered a series of cyber-attacks that rendered its site, including its Wayback Machine, temporarily unavailable and exposed the data of 31 million users. On October 8, 2024, Internet Archive founder, Brewster Kahle, confirmed…

Two former customer service employees at UK motoring services company RAC have received suspended prison sentences for unlawfully selling personal information, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Debbie Okparavero, 61, of Salford and Maliha Islam, 51, of Manchester, worked…

Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new digital skimmer campaign that leverages Unicode obfuscation techniques to conceal a skimmer dubbed Mongolian Skimmer. “At first glance, the thing that stood out was the script’s…

Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked…

Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Browser Security Mozilla has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680, has been described as…

Microsoft has patched two zero-day bugs under active exploitation and a further three that were publicly disclosed in this month’s Patch Tuesday update round. CVE-2024-43572 is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Microsoft Management Console with a CVSS score…

Join us as we delve into the world of unexpected security breaches and legal loopholes, where your robot vacuum cleaner might be spying on you, and ordering a pizza could cost you your right to sue. All this and more…

The UK government has launched a new competition designed to encourage young people to pursue careers in cybersecurity. The UK Cyber Team Competition is open to 18–25-year-olds, who will undertake hands-on cyber exercises designed to push their technical expertise and…

A new generation of QR code phishing (quishing) attacks have been uncovered by threat analyists at Barracuda. Research by the email protection firm highlighted new techniques that have been designed to evade traditional security defenses by including QR codes built…

Oct 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Threat Detection Google on Wednesday announced a new partnership with the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) and DNS Research Federation (DNS RF) to combat online scams. The initiative, which has been codenamed the Global Signal Exchange…