In response to reports that the Florida county’s election office had its computer systems infected and encrypted by ransomware just weeks before the 2016 US presidential elections, an expert commented below.
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The WordPress GDPR Cookie consent plugin used by 700,000 websites was found to have critical vulnerabilities that could have allowed cybercriminals to delete, change content and inject a malicious code.
South Africa-based Nedbank has disclosed that personal information of 1.7 million customers was breached by an IT services provider. This comes at the same time a new report has uncovered a sharp increase in incidents involving companies handling sensitive data for business partners and other clients. The total number of such third-party breaches hit 368 in 2019, up from 328 in 2018 and 273 in 2017 — a 35% increase in two years.
ESET urges people to be vigilant when online dating, or risk falling for catfishers 41% of consumers believe that they face more cyber security risks when online dating around Valentine’s Day 71% don’t do background searches before meeting their date from online dating sites 55% of over 55s worry more about their cyber security than 16 to 24-year-olds Over two-thirds (69%) of Brits are concerned about their cyber security, but many don’t know how to protect themselves online 52% of people say that loneliness around Valentine’s Day makes them more susceptible to catfish scams. This is according to the Catphishing…
It has been reported that Microsoft has released its February 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates. This month’s updates include fixes for a whopping 99 vulnerabilities, making this Microsoft’s biggest Patch Tuesday known to date. The highlight of this month’s security train represents the fix for CVE-2020-0674, a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
Cyber criminals are spreading the highly dangerous off-the-shelf Emotet, a phishing Trojan-turned-botnet, by exploiting widespread fears of infection by the novel coronavirus, according to ComputerWeekly. Disguised as an email from a provider of disability welfare services, the Emotet coronavirus campaign has targeted users in several Japanese prefectures. This is not the first time that hackers and scammers have taken advantage of the virus, and the first reports of criminals using coronavirus-themed emails to phish potential victims occurred just days after the illness began spreading.
The U.S. government’s top counterintelligence official has challenged the private sector to step up and take responsibility for protecting its systems and sensitive data from foreign spying. William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said that “with the private sector and democratic institutions increasingly under attack, this is no longer a problem the U.S. government can address alone.” The solution requires “a whole-of-society response involving the private sector, an informed American public, as well as our allies,” Evanina said in remarks accompanying the release of an unclassified version of a new counterintelligence strategy.
Since the GDPR regulations came into force on 25 May 2018, there have been hundreds of thousands of GDPR breaches resulting in enforcement action for non-compliance and /or penalties for data protection breaches. With regards to the latter, regulators across Europe have imposed much more severe penalties than previously seen under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998), the record being £183m against British Airways for losing over 500,000 customers’ personal data. It is not only large, global corporates that are penalised under the GDPR. Smaller organisations and even individuals have been penalised for GDPR breaches, for example: estate agents…
Geopolitical tension has a long-tail effect in cyberspace. In the aftermath of major political or military incidents, beneath the public posturing, nation state cyber actors are already under orders to conduct campaigns aimed at countering the incident, spreading disinformation or straightforward revenge. This evolves into a cat and mouse game played out in cyberspace where attackers disguise their identities to deflect the target’s focus and create tension between the target and third parties – and the stakes are getting higher. As society becomes increasingly dependent on digital technology and networks for all aspects of life, so its value as a…
In its new FBI Internet Crime Report, the FBI said it received 467,361 internet and cyber-crime complaints in 2019, and that almost half of the reported losses — an estimated $1.77 billion — came from reports of BEC (Business Email Compromise), also known as EAC (Email Account Compromise) crimes. FBI Internet Crime Report 2019: https://pdf.ic3.gov/2019_IC3Report.pdf