As reported by PC Mag, Apple previewed a new passwordless login scheme called Passkey at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Darin Adler, VP of Internet Technologies at Apple, pitched Passkey as “more secure, easier to use, and aims to replace passwords for good.” Adler described Passkeys this way: “A unique digital key is created that only works for the site it was created for.” Instead of passwords, Apple users would verify their identity using biometric authentication, which is already built into most of the company’s product line with Face ID, for facial recognition, and Touch ID, for fingerprint scanning.
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Full of high stakes and thrilling escapades, heist films are perfect for any movie buff. The Vault (2022), directed by Jaume Balaguero, premiered in the UK this March. The film follows a group of master thieves as they organise an elaborate underground hesit, featuring a number of familiar faces, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Freddie Highmore to Game of Thrones’ Liam Cunnginham. So if you enjoyed this film, what else can you watch? SMP Security, a leading provider of personal and businesses safes, has taken a look at some of the biggest and best cinematic heists. But don’t worry,…
Apple says that its App store safety mechanisms blocked $1.5 billion in fraudulent App Store transactions, 1.6 million risky and vulnerable apps, and app updates from defrauding users. Since the bad actors continue to evolve their methods of online fraud, Apple has sustained to enhance its processes, create new ones, and engineer solutions to take on these threats. As an update to that analysis, in 2021, the company protected customers from nearly $1.5 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions and stopped over 1.6 million risky and vulnerable apps and app updates from defrauding users.
Cyber eason has today published results of its second annual ransomware study during a year of unprecedented attacks to better understand the true impact on businesses. This global study reveals that 73 percent of organisations suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2022, compared with just 55 percent in the 2021 study. The study once again finds that ‘it doesn’t pay-to-pay’ a ransom demand, as 80 percent of organisations that paid were hit by ransomware a second time, with 68 percent saying the second attack came in less than a month and 67% reporting that threat actors demanded a higher ransom amount.…
In light of the critical Atlassian zero-day (CVE-2022-26134) that’s just making headlines, Information Security Experts emphasis why it is better time to move to cloud but what do you think?
Securi researchers are reporting that The Parrot traffic direction system (TDS) that came to light earlier this year on more than 16,500 infected sites has had a larger impact than previously thought. Sucuri, has been tracking the campaign since February 2019 under the name “NDSW/NDSX,” and reports that “Last year, more than 61,000 websites scanned by SiteCheck contained the malicious ‘ndsw’ JavaScript.” “The malware consists of several layers: the first of which prominently features the ndsw variable within JavaScript injections, the second of which leverages the ndsx variable in the payload. Our research findings show that attackers regularly change the…
As reported by BBC News, digital fingerprints of a million images of child sexual abuse have been created, the Internet Watch Foundation has said. The UK charity, which is responsible for finding and removing such material online, said the fingerprints, known as hashes, would help companies and police find copies of the images. It is hoped that by doing this, the reuse of the images can be prevented. The images are from the government’s Child Abuse Image Database.
It has been reported that the German financial regulator BaFin issued a fresh cyber security warning on Tuesday to the nation’s financial sector due to the war in Ukraine following a recent increase in cyber attacks. BaFin has repeatedly warned about cyber attacks but Tuesday’s security notice marks an escalation of its concerns. BaFin said the recent events had especially taken the form of ‘distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)’ attacks, in which hackers attempt to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to paralyse it. These warnings should be heeded by all banks across Europe as the war…
EnemyBot, a botnet based on code from multiple malware pieces, is expanding its reach by quickly adding exploits for recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities in web servers, content management systems, IoT, and Android devices.
Costa Rica’s public health service, known as the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), has been forced to take its systems offline after being hit by Hive ransomware.