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Google announced today it was rolling back a recent Chrome browser privacy feature to prevent any disruption to existing websites and their availability during the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. “In light of the extraordinary global circumstances due to COVID-19, we are temporarily rolling back the enforcement of SameSite cookie labeling, starting today,” Justin Schuh, Director […] More
Image: Mozilla Firefox users are advised to update their browsers to patch two bugs that are being exploited in the real world by hackers. The fixes are available in Firefox 74.0.1, released earlier today. This new Firefox version includes fixes for CVE-2020-6819 and CVE-2020-6820, two bugs that reside in the way Firefox manages its memory […] More
Image: Charles Deluvio The current coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine periods imposed all over the globe have forced a large portion of the world’s population towards online shopping. But despite amid a dramatic rise in the number of people using online stores to buy food and supplies during this outbreak, security researchers don’t expect to see a […] More
Cyber criminals are preying on anxieties around the coronavirus outbreak in an effort to maximise the impact of their attacks – with some operations intensifying ransomware and DDoS attacks at a time when remote access to computer networks and online services is more vital than ever. A new paper from Europol – based on contributions […] More
Microsoft has detailed the plight of a customer whose entire IT network was brought down after one employee opened a phishing email that delivered the notorious Emotet banking trojan and credential-stealing malware. Details in Microsoft’s account of incident response work for a company it calls ‘Fabrikam’ line up with a cybersecurity incident disclosed by the […] More
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread, research teams across the globe have been using their time and skills to come up with innovative ways that technology can help us track the illness. In the last week, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has surpassed one million, with the hardest-hit countries being the US, Italy, […] More
Some 110 human rights and civil society organisations from around the world have jointly called for all governments to adhere to human rights laws when using digital surveillance technologies to track and monitor individuals and populations to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. Signatories of the joint statement include Amnesty International, Algorithm Watch, Australian […] More
Image: Elastic, ZDNet For the past two weeks, a hacker has been breaking into Elasticsearch servers that have been left open on the internet without a password and attempting to wipe their content, while also leaving the name of a cyber-security firm behind, trying to divert blame. According to security researcher John Wethington, one of […] More
