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Hackers and crooks, from amateurs to professional organised criminals, are using the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as an opportunity to advance their plans at a time when many of their targets are distracted, worried and working from home. Coronavirus-themed attacks now predominate: according to security company Proofpoint, four out of five scam emails are using coronavirus themes […] More
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has banned employees from using video-conferencing app Zoom over “significant privacy and security concerns”, according to a memo seen by Reuters. In response to these concerns, Zoom has announced it is immediately freezing feature development for 90 days to improve security and privacy and will conduct a third-party security review. Working from […] More
It is hard for parents to ensure that their children are not accessing sites that they should not have access to as we settle in to life under lockdown. As we go through COVID-19 social distancing for weeks – how do we ensure that the extra time our kids are spending online are safe? London, […] More
The internet is rife with online communities where users can go and share Zoom conference codes and request that pranksters connect and hurl insults, play pornographic material, or make death threats against other participants — in a practice called Zoom-bombing or a Zoom raid. ZDNet began tracking the tactic since mid-March when the term was […] More
Mandrake stages Image: Bitdefender The Bitdefender cybersecurity investigative team has uncovered a new Android spying operation specifically targeting Australian users. The company found “Mandrake” earlier this year and believe the highly sophisticated spying platform has been active for at least four years. Bitdefender said it has seen a rapid spread of attacks in Australia over […] More
With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raging all over the globe, some malware authors have developed malware that destroys infected systems, either by wiping files or rewriting a computer’s master boot record (MBR). With help from the infosec community, ZDNet has identified at least five malware strains, some distributed in the wild, while others appear to […] More
Microsoft is working on developing comprehensive mitigation for a class of Windows bugs that have plagued the operating system for more than two decades. Israeli security researcher Gil Dabah told ZDNet that a fix is currently in the works. Earlier today, Dabah published proof-of-concept code and a report detailing 25 bugs, all exploiting variations on […] More
Amazon’s cloud services business AWS has announced that security tool Amazon Detective, which uses machine learning to help visualize anomalies in customers’ resources, is now generally available. Launched as a preview at last year’s re:Invent event, the feature is likely to put an end to many security team’s woes. Amazon Detective collects large quantities of […] More
