Google has reached out to users to apologize after a “technical issue” saw videos uploaded to another user’s archives. In an email, the search engine giant said the issue affected the Google “download your data” service — called Google Takeout — for Google Photos in November last year.
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From online education to voting to dating apps, online companies are starting to institute physical biometrics to identify individuals through facial recognition.
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A new type of ransomware, Ekans, has been developed and has been created to specifically target Windows systems used within industrial control systems. Below security expert provides an analysis of this new ransomware. https://twitter.com/Defende13613712/status/1224674934217158656
Dundee and Angus College has remained closed today after a recent cyber attack, which occurred late last week. The College computer systems were shut down, and students have been asked to reset their passwords before attempting to access online college systems. The College’s Principal has released a statement saying that they do not believe this was a targeted attack, but instead was just an act of “mischief”. https://twitter.com/dundee_angus/status/1224018468774825988
Linear eMerge E3 devices that are part of access control systems for Smart buildings have been found to contain serious vulnerabilities that can be used by cybercriminals to launch DDoS attacks according to security researchers at Applied Risk.
Microsoft Teams has suffered a major worldwide outage due to an expired digital certificate. People have taken to Twitter to complain, while others are taking the opportunity to point out the awkward reality that Microsoft is itself a certificate authority while highlighting that it is a totally avoidable issue. https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1224336575036870656 https://twitter.com/ConradLongmore/status/1224349751723773952 https://twitter.com/AirlineFlyer/status/1224332769326706688
(ISC)² Opens Call for Expert Cybersecurity Speakers for 2020 Security Congress Annual conference brings together experts from around the world to tackle the most pressing issues in cybersecurity (ISC)² – the world’s largest nonprofit membership association of certified cybersecurity professionals – today announced a global call for speakers for its tenth annual Security Congress conference this year in Orlando, Fla., which will take place November 16-18. Submissions will be accepted until March 22, 2020. Following record attendance in 2019, this year’s conference is also expected to become the largest-ever Security Congress, with more attendees than ever before, geared toward a global audience and the cybersecurity challenges…
People are abuzz right now with trend predictions for 2020. It’s like putting the cart before the horse. Before we start making assumptions about what we think will happen this year, we need to take stock with what we know happened in 2019. What types of threats continued to haunt us? Have we cracked (no pun intended) the code to secure mobile apps? What are the mistakes we don’t want to repeat again in 2020? Below are the key lessons we learned in 2019 and key consideration to think about in 2020. “Magecart” is a real threat Magecart refers to…
Criminal gangs are planting “sleepers” in cleaning companies so that they can physically access IT infrastructure, the lead officer of the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Cyber Crime Unit told a recent SINET security event. He said that he was seeing a “much larger increase in physical breaches” as cybercrime groups diversify how they attack, as reported by Computer Business Review. Businesses have been urged to bolster their physical security processes in the face of the growing threat. The risk of physical breaches, it seems, is increasing as hackers utilise lower-tech ways of infiltrating organizations.