Image: Getty/10’000 Hours There’s been a big rise in cyber criminals combining fraudulent emails and telephone calls to trick victims into disclosing sensitive information like passwords and bank details. Known as vishing attacks, criminals and scammers telephone victims and attempt to use social engineering to trick them into giving up personal data. Common scams involve […] More
Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a vulnerability wholesaler, has reduced its disclosure timelines for incomplete patches in a bid to push vendors into improving the quality of their security updates. ZDI, a brand owned by security firm Trend Micro, is making the move because of what says is a “disturbing” […] More
Image: Getty/Kentaroo Tryman A water company that supplies drinking water to over 1.6 million people in the UK says it has been hit by a cyber attack. But the criminal gang involved appears to have claimed it had breached a different water utilities firm. South Staffordshire Water says it has been the “target of a […] More
Tesla Tesla is set to unveil a new humanoid robot, called Optimus, in late September. There’s been a lot of speculation surrounding Tesla’s strategy in entering the robotics market, and a recent post by boss Elon Musk sheds some new light. In the post, published in the China’s Cyberspace Administration’s official publication, Musk continued to […] More
Image: Getty/MoMo Productions It’s often said that the most important things you can do protect your accounts and wider network from hackers is to use multi-factor authentication (MFA). That’s because one of the most common ways cyber criminals breach networks is by using phishing attacks to steal passwords or simply by guessing weak ones. Either way, […] More
Image: Getty/Jose Luis Pelaez Inc An Android banking trojan has re-emerged with new features that make it more powerful and more dangerous to a wider range of users. Also, it now delivers ransomware. The Sova Android banking malware first appeared for sale in underground markets in September last year, with its author stating that it […] More
U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Samuel Becker If you happened to be sneaking onto Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in late July, you wouldn’t have made it far. Last month, Space Force conducted a demonstration where two robot dogs built by Ghost Robotics conducted patrols in advance of potential broader adoption of the […] More
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