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After years of lying dormant, the Zeus Sphinx malware strain has been resurrected to capitalize on the coronavirus pandemic in a new wave of scams. Spam emails claiming to hold the secret to novel coronavirus cures, texts and phone calls from operators pretending to be utilities and banks impacted by the respiratory illness, and fake […] More
Image: Shodan The use of remote access technologies like RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and VPN (Virtual Private Network) has skyrocketed 41% and 33%, respectively, since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The move comes as a large number of companies have asked staff to work from home, which usually entails connecting to internal intranets […] More
In Bangalore, seeing 1.5 million workers buzzing about from day to night on any given week is the norm. To see reports of deserted IT sector’s campuses then, is not just surreal, it’s scary. And the world didn’t even have to conjure up visions of a zombie apocalypse to see this scene come to life. […] More
Image: Asha Barbaschow/ZDNet The contract between Huawei Australia and UGL (HUGL Consortium) and the government of Western Australian to provide the state with a digital radio system for its trains has been mutually abandoned by both parties, Minister for Transport; Planning Rita Saffioti said on Friday. Under the Radio Systems Replacement deal, Huawei was responsible […] More
Image via Mostafa Meraji Voter information for more than 4.9 million Georgians, including deceased citiens, has been published on a hacking forum over the weekend, on Saturday. Personal information such as full names, home addresses, dates of birth, ID numbers, and mobile phone numbers were shared online in a 1.04 GB MDB (Microsoft Access database) […] More
Image via Mostafa Meraji The personal details for more than 4.9 million Georgians, including deceased citizens, has been published on a hacking forum over the weekend, on Saturday. Personal information such as full names, home addresses, dates of birth, ID numbers, and mobile phone numbers were shared online in a 1.04 GB MDB (Microsoft Access […] More
Lovable after all? Once, we were stupidly in love. Our lives had changed in a beautiful, limitless kind of way. Our new lover, the tech company, promised a better, richer, more fulfilling world. Our lover told us that, finally, the world would see us for who we really were — wonderful, fascinating, and, most of […] More
Image: ZDNet The source code of a major ransomware strain named Dharma has been put up for sale on two Russian hacker forums over the weekend. The FBI, in a talk at the RSA security conference this year, ranked Dharma the second most lucrative ransomware operation in recent years, having extorted more than $24 million […] More
