There are lots of stories about the security around Zoom, BUT hackers are attacking more remote working tools than just Zoom, Ilia Kolochenko, Founder & CEO of web security company ImmuniWeb, warns.
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In response to the recent Krebs On Security report that indicates a spear-phishing attack hooked a customer service employee at GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar, a cybersecurity expert offers perspective.
Data breaches in the healthcare industry have been accelerating during this pandemic with the latest total equaling 105 breaches affecting more than 2.5 million thus far in 2020 according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
As reported by BBC News, videoconferencing app Zoom has come under fresh high-level scrutiny as its popularity soars during the coronavirus pandemic. New York’s attorney general has written to the firm raising concerns over its ability to cope with the rise in users. Zoom, which is being used by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for video Cabinet meetings, has also come under fire from the FBI according to TechRepublic. The FBI “has received multiple reports of conferences being disrupted by pornographic and/or hate images, and threatening language,” said a statement released Monday.
The Marriott International hotel chain has fallen victim to its second major data breach in as many years, after information of 5.2 million guests was accessed using the login credentials of two employees at a franchise property. Compromised information may involve contact details, including postal and email addresses and phone numbers; information relating to customer loyalty accounts, but not passwords; personal details such as employers, gender and birth dates; partnerships and affiliations, such as details of linked airline loyalty programs; and guest preferences, such as room preferences and languages. https://twitter.com/ComputerWeekly/status/1244990455315607554
Since at least early December 2019, a mysterious hacker group has been taking over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside corporate networks. In a report published on the blog of its network security division Netlab, Qihoo said its researchers detected two different threat actors, each exploiting a different zero-day vulnerability in DrayTek Vigor — load-balancing routers and VPN gateways typically deployed on enterprise networks. The hackers abused a vulnerability in the RSA-encrypted login mechanism of DrayTek devices to hide malicious code inside the router’s username login field. When a DrayTek router received and then decrypted the boobytrapped RSA-encrypted login data,…
As reported by ZDNet, video calling platform Houseparty has said it would pay a $1 million bounty to anyone who could unmask the entity behind what the company described as “a paid commercial smear campaign.” The company’s apparent anger comes after Houseparty has been at the center of media reports published yesterday by three British tabloids. Houseparty denied any hacking rumors right from the get-go via a firm statement posted on its Twitter account, claiming that the app “doesn’t collect passwords for other sites,” and, hence, wouldn’t be able to allow anyone to extract this data and pivot to other online…
It is estimated that ransomware generates an estimated annual revenue of $1 billion a year. This World Backup Day, Industry Leaders, are urging companies to take control and back up their data.
The global pandemic is challenging the world to creatively and intelligently adapt to rapid change. People and organizations must define their new normal while adjusting to sweeping modifications such as social distancing and extensive remote work. For IT leaders, there is immense pressure to perform fantastic feats quickly. With as little as 24-hours-notice in some cases, organizations are asking IT to stand up comprehensive work-from-home programs, opening corporate networks to a wide range of new connections and sending corporate hardware out into the wild with little-to-no preparation. These fast and drastic changes are pushing the collective IT community way beyond…
In response to findings from insurer Chubb that 2019’s ransomware attacks are already outpacing 2018, cybersecurity experts with diverse backgrounds commented below.