As per Hacker News, a Pakistani hacker who goes by the name of ‘Gnosticplayers’ – who earlier this year put the credentials of 620 million accounts from 16 websites up for sale – has claimed to have successfully breached Words With Friends to access a database of more than 218 million users. Pilfered details are said to include players’ …
Microsoft, Hewlett Foundation, MasterCard, and several other unnamed major corporations and philanthropic institutions have formed an independent non-profit organisation called the CyberPeace Institute aimed at protecting victims against cyberattacks and helping them recover from one. “For years, non-governmental organisations around the world have provided on-the-ground help and vocal advocacy for victims of wars and natural …
If you’ve noticed an uptick of spam that addresses you by name or quotes real emails you’ve sent or received in the past, you can probably blame Emotet. It’s one of the world’s most costly and destructive botnets—and it just returned from a four-month hiatus. Emotet started out as a means for spreading a bank-fraud …
The South Gauteng High Court has found that parts of the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information (RICA) Act are unconstitutional. In April 2017, media group amaBhungane filed an application in the High Court challenging the constitutionality of the act. This, after it emerged that journalist Sam Sole’s communications were intercepted …
DNS amplification attacks swelled in the second quarter of this year, with the amplified attacks spiking more than 1,000% compared with Q2 2018, according to Nexusguard. Researchers attributed Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) with fueling the new wave of DNS amplification attacks, which accounted for more than 65% of the attacks last quarter according …
Tala Security, the provider of security solutions protecting enterprise websites and web applications against advanced client-side attacks like Magecart, today announced the Tala 2019 State of the Web Report. The report, which tested U.S. websites within the Alexa 1000 ranking, educates enterprises about the critical and under-recognized security threats related to their web assets and …
The chief executive officers (CEOs) of 51 tech companies including Amazon, AT&T, Dell, IBM, Qualcomm, SAP, Salesforce, Visa, Mastercard, JP Morgan Chase, State Farm, and Walmart have signed and sent an open letter to Congress leaders today, asking for a federal law on user data privacy to supersede the rising number of privacy laws that …
As the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation nears its 18 month anniversary, research by security software supplier Egress has suggested that 52% of UK businesses are not fully compliant with the rules, opening the door to severe penalties if they fall victim to a data breach. Egress – which polled 250 decision …
2019 is shaping up as the year of the “exit scam” according to a new study from CipherTrace, a cryptocurrency intelligence firm based in Silicon Valley. According to the company’s latest Q2 2019 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering (AML) report, which provides an overview of the major cryptocurrency thefts, scams, and fraud worldwide, criminals and fraudsters netted …
Last week Google disclosed a large-scale hacking effort that it said targeted users of Apple devices But now Apple has gone on the offensive – angry in public, and absolutely incensed in private at what is being seen as something of a stitch up. Google is standing by its research. In a bold statement posted …