It seems not a single life on the internet is safe, someone just tried to trick users by sending the emails froma supposed ICANN legit email address and now The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued an alert that someone is running a phishing scam impersonating ICANN. The perpetrator apparently targeting …
According to the latest Experis Industry Insiders report, which examines how the growth of IoT is impacting the cyber security jobs market, The cyber security skills shortage is hampering Internet of Things development. The emergence of IoT as an asset that needs to secured is driving employers to think differently about their business and workforce …
ESET warns users of fraudulent e-mail messages that seek to extort money, especially from people watching online pornographic videos. The attacker in the email claims they have hacked the intended victim’s device and has recorded the person while watching pornographic content. The email also asserts that the video has not only captured the user’s behavior …
Security researchers in Israel have developed malware that can add realistic-looking but entirely fake growths to CT and MRI scans or hide real cancerous nodules that would be detected by the medical imagining equipment. The software, designed by experts at the Ben Gurion University Cyber Security Research Center, was created to highlight the lax security …
Matthew Garrett, a Google security engineer, has revealed a zero-day vulnerability impacting TP-Link SR20 smart home routers bug after the company failed to fix the issue within 90 days, a timeframe now established within cybersecurity which is considered to be a reasonable amount of time offered to vendors to fix reported security issues. The security …
Japanese car maker Toyota announced its second data breach today, making it the second cyber-security incident the company acknowledged in the past five weeks. While the first incident took place at its Australian subsidiary, today’s breach was announced by the company’s main offices in Japan. Toyota and Lexus car owners data at risk The company …
Facebook employees were aware of concerns about“improper data-gathering practices” by Cambridge Analytica months before the Guardian first reported, in December 2015, that the political consultancy had obtained data on millions from an academic. The concerns appeared in a court filing by the attorney general for Washington DC and were subsequently confirmed by Facebook. The new …
Facebook appears to be recovering from a more than 14-hour disruption to all of its products that left them mostly inaccessible across the world. On Wednesday, people around the world found out when all three services experienced interruptions throughout the day. The company’s main social network, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram were …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the keepers of the web’s address book – has warned that they believe there is “an ongoing and significant risk to key parts of the DNS infrastructure.” according to an announcement on Friday from ICANN, the DNS infrastructure is being targeted by ‘malicious activity.’ DNSSEC …
Car maker Toyota has been hit by a cyber attack in Australia, with employees locked out of their emails for days. Toyota Australia’s servers were targeted on Tuesday and an investigation involving federal authorities is under way into who was behind the potentially malicious cyber attack. The company confirmed it had been the victim of …