Hacker opens 2,732 PickPoint package lockers across Moscow:, A mysterious hacker used a cyber-attack to force-open the doors of 2,732 package delivery lockers across Moscow. The attack, which took place on Friday afternoon, December 4, targeted the network of PickPoint, a local delivery service that maintains a network of more than 8,000 package lockers across Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
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Encryption of online messages could make it harder to police child abuse and grooming online, the children’s commissioner for England has warned. End-to-end encryption is a privacy feature that makes it impossible for anyone except the sender and recipient to read messages sent online. Commissioner Anne Longfield said it also prevented police from gathering evidence to prosecute child abusers. But digital rights groups see it as an essential part of online privacy. Facebook, which is behind the most popular messaging apps children use, already offers end-to-end encryption for Whatsapp. It has added an opt-in version to its Messenger service, with plans…
It has been reported that Forescout security researchers have disclosed 33 security flaws (named Amnesia:33) in four open-source TCP/IP libraries currently used inside the firmware of products from more than 150 vendors. Cybersecurity experts provide an insight on this discovery below.
Bitcoins have begun to move into the online wallet of hackers who stole a vast trove of information from an Israeli insurance company, leading to fears that the group has begun to sell the data after the firm refused to pay it ransom money, according to Hebrew media reports Monday. More on the story here:
It has been reported that security experts have found a backdoor security flaw within TCL’s Android T.V.’s. A publication called Digital Information World says the flaw could allow an intruder to collect information from the file system, delete files, or rewrite files without a password. “It would allow hackers to essentially upload new software to the T.V. which could make it potentially do anything that any computerized device connected to your network could do,” FOX19 NOW’s tech expert Dave Hatter said. In a statement released by TCL , it states the following: “TCL was recently notified by an independent security researcher of two…
Following the recent news on Randstad reporting an attack by the Egregor group, Cybersecurity experts commented below.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a warning to retailers and consumers of the increased risk of cyber fraud during the festive shopping season. Cybercriminals are expected to exploit shoppers more than ever this holiday season, amid the chaos of this year, and an increase in online shopping.
McAfee has released a new report focused on the cost of cybercrime and its impact on global economies – both the overt costs as well as less obvious losses. Through their research, McAfee estimates the annual global cost of cybercrime at around $945 billion, or just over 1% of global GDP. Add this to global spending on cybersecurity, expected to exceed $145 billion in 2020, and cybercrime is now a trillion dollar drag on the global economy. The research was conducted through a partnership with The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and survey of 1,500 global IT decision-makers. However, 90% of companies reported hidden costs that…
According to a statement released by Brazilian aerospace and defense group Embraer, threat actors were able to disclose “data allegedly attributed to the company”. The incident was reported five days after it took place to the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission. The Brazilian legislation requires immediate reporting of problems such as cyber-attacks.
CISA warns the leading enterprise document management platform is open to attack and urges companies to apply fixes. Xerox issued a fix for two vulnerabilities impacting its market-leading DocuShare enterprise document management platform. The bugs, if exploited, could expose DocuShare users to an attack resulting in the loss of sensitive data. On Wednesday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a security bulletin urging users and administrators to apply a patch that plugged two security holes in recently released versions (6.6.1, 7.0, and 7.5) of Xerox’s DocuShare. The vulnerability is rated important. Tracked as CVE-2020-27177, Xerox said the vulnerabilities open Solaris, Linux, and Windows…