The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitted that big tech needs more regulation. Specifically, there have been calls for regulation in four main areas: elections, harmful content, privacy and data portability. https://twitter.com/FT/status/1229158388954730498
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The UK’s Anti-Doping agency has been hit with a total of 11,148 malicious emails in the final three months of last year, according to research fromParliament Street think tank. The data collected via the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act provided insight into the large number of spam and malicious emails blocked by UKAD in Q4 2019. The total number of spam and malicious emails blocked by UKAD from 10th October 2019 to 31 October 2019 was 3,218. In November 2019, the total amount of emails blocked was 4,244 and in December 2019 the total number of emails blocked was 3,686. It is…
BBC News this morning reported that Heathrow Airport has apologised for disruptions after being hit by ‘technical issues’. One passenger reportedly said the situation was “utter chaos” after a problem with the airport’s IT system saw staff called in to help passengers get to gates on the second day of the half-term weekend.
An interesting story has run on exposed databases. According to a story in Infosecurity Magazine, a US education non-profit, the Institute of International Education (IIE) has unwittingly leaked the personal information of thousands of students after leaving two online MongoDB databases exposed. The database contained links with active access token to documents stored elsewhere. These links were to passport scans, application forms, visas, emails as well as other documents. If either database was accessed it could provide a treasure trove of sensitive information for use in follow-on fraud. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/education-nonprofit-leaks-data/
5G is here to replace not just legacy cellular standards, but a multitude of other wireless and wired communication standards and therefore its scope will cover personal use, business operations, transportation and smart city infrastructure. This, together with its support for dense IoT networks – which could potentially have over 1 million devices per square kilometre – means an exponential increase in the attack surface and exposure to cyber attacks on an unprecedented scale. The nature of 5G’s shared infrastructure has the potential for mass failure across not just network functions, but multiple networks and connected devices. An attack on…
In response to reports that a serious vulnerability found in the Profinet industrial communication protocol exposes devices from Siemens, Moxa and possibly other vendors to denial-of-service attacks, cybersecurity experts offer perspective.
Rutter’s, the convenience store, fast food restaurant, and gas station chain owner, has disclosed that 71 locations were infected with a point-of-sale (POS) malware that was used by attackers to steal customers’ credit card information. Rutter’s disclosed in a Notice of Payment Card Incident that it found evidence indicating that some payment card data from cards used on point-of-sale (POS) devices from convenience stores and fuel pumps were accessed by an unauthorized actor using malware installed on the payment processing systems.
Security researchers have disclosed a dozen flaws in the implementation of the Bluetooth Low Energy technology on multiple system-on-a-chip (SoC) circuits that power at least 480 from various vendors. Collectively named SweynTooth, the vulnerabilities can be used by an attacker in Bluetooth range can crash affected devices, force a reboot by sending them into a deadlock state, or bypass the secure BLE pairing mode and access functions reserved for authorized users. https://twitter.com/GRComputers/status/1228014800954961931
Ransomware cost organizations globally more than $6.3Billion in 2019 and it is ramping up for 2020 according to an Emisoft report.