When Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts Look Like Phishing
Multiple media reports this week warned Americans to be on guard against a new phishing scam that arrives in a…
Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins…
US offers $2.5 million reward for hacker linked to Angler Exploit Kit
The U.S. Department of State and the Secret Service have announced a reward of $2,500,000 for information leading to Belarusian…
Telegram CEO’s jailing reveals Europe’s true totalitarian colors
French-Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov founded Telegram in 2013, following Russia’s crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011. Now one of the…
Attackers Exploit Critical Atlassian Confluence Flaw for Cryptojacking
Novel attack vectors leverage the CVE-2023-22527 RCE flaw discovered in January, which is still under active attack, to turn targeted…
Google increases Chrome bug bounty rewards up to $250,000
Google has more than doubled payouts for Google Chrome security flaws reported through its Vulnerability Reward Program, with the maximum…
Hitachi Energy Vulnerabilities Plague SCADA Power Systems
The company has assessed four of the five disclosed vulnerabilities as being of high to critical severity.
Encryption of Data at Rest: The Cybersecurity Last Line of Defense
Defending business against cyberattack Encryption of Data at Rest: The Cybersecurity Last Line of Defense In the ever-evolving landscape of…
Sheltering From the Cyberattack Storm – Part Two
In the first part of this series, I discussed sophisticated cyberattacks, analyzed an example, and offered advice on how to remediate…
US oil giant Halliburton confirms cyberattack behind systems shutdown
Halliburton, one of the world's largest providers of services to the energy industry, has confirmed a cyberattack that forced it…