Google’s campaign to make HTTPS security ubiquitous has been underscored once again by the news that it is to implement HSTS preload on 45 Top-Level Domains (TLDs) it controls as part of its domain registrar business. The organization has announced that they are beginning to use another tool in our toolbox, the HTTPS Strict Transport …
The cyber security news has been dominated by just one story all month of september: Equifax, which suffered one of the largest reported corporate data breaches in history. Lewis Morgan has gone through the trouble to list the September 2017 cyber breaches, by his count, there have been 174,429,805 known leaked records this month yet …
The Law Firm Cybersecurity Scorecard includes an array of assessments – from cyber defenses, crisis management procedures, and post-hack responses. The report comes to a chilling conclusion: “…40% of surveyed law firms had experienced a data breach in 2016 and did not know about it.” Behind every splashy headline is a legal industry that’s duking it …
A recent massive security breach at credit reporting company Equifax, which could impact 143 million consumers in the U.S. The breach which was revealed last week along with the revelation that three Equifax officials, including its chief financial officer, sold nearly $2 million of the company’s shares in the days after the breach was …
New study has found that Cyberattacks leveraging IoT devices are also becoming commonplace particularly in the transportation where 29 percent of companies indicated they experienced an IoT attack. The energy, construction, and IT sectors aren’t far behind 22 percent of respondents from each industry reported attacks, respectively. To combat these threats researchers said companies will …
The QZ reports that Togo is the latest African nation to shut down access to the internet after protests against president Faure Gnassingbé were scheduled to take place this week. Early this year Cameroon imposed a 93-day internet blackout on the country’s Anglophone regions which spoke out their marginalization by the French-speaking government. The blackout …
Researchers have created a smartphone application to combat “shoulder-surfing”—when someone else looks over your shoulder as you enter your phone’s password or other private digits, potentially even gleaning vital financial or personal information. Every ATM or smartphone user can attest to the discomfort of having a stranger standing close enough to observe a financial transaction—and …
A group called OurMine appears to have taken control of the main HBO accounts, as well as those for the network’s shows including Game of Thrones. One post said “OurMine are here. we are just testing your security”. OurMine is notorious for hacking high-profile social media handles, and has in the past managed to compromise …
Only 14% of government organizations consider themselves to be well-protected against cyber threats. The government sector lags behind others in implementing modern cybersecurity defenses, according to a new report from security firm Netwrix. This failure to update has led to an increase in breaches: 72% of government entities worldwide had their security compromised in 2016, …
Security solutions company eScan on Thursday in a 36-page report alleged that Xiaomi’s MIUI custom Android ROM has multiple flaws that affected the security of user data. Xiaomi system apps such as the uninstall mechanism and Mi Mover were some of the flawed aspects of MIUI, the report stated. The Chinese smartphone company has refuted …