Subterms
Three Republican Senators — Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Tom Cotton from Arkansas, and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee — said today they have introduced a Bill to end the use of “warrant-proof encryption”. Dubbed the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, the Bill would see service providers and device manufacturers be compelled […] More
After the flashy presentations of WWDC 2020, Apple has now published more details about some of the new features that are coming to some of its products. While Safari didn’t get too much of the spotlight at WWDC, Safari 14, scheduled to be released later this fall with iOS 14 and macOS 11, is a […] More
A Twitter spokesperson has told ZDNet today that they’ve permanently suspended the @DDoSecrets Twitter account for violating its policy about the distribution of hacked data after the account shared links to hacked data stolen from US law enforcement agencies. Prior to the ban, enforced earlier today, the DDoSecrets account belonged to an activist group going […] More
Image: Microsoft Starting today, customers of Microsoft’s commercial antivirus product — Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) — can install a first version of the product’s Android port. The product, named “Microsoft Defender ATP for Android,” was announced at the RSA security conference in February this year, and has reached a first public preview today. Companies […] More
One of the world’s most prolific and successful ransomware groups is now scanning the networks of victims to check for credit card and point of sale (PoS) software in what looks to be an additional method of making money from attacks. Sodinokibi – also known as REvil – emerged in April 2019 and it has […] More
Many companies have spent the last couple of months scrambling to deploy new systems to manage the security risks surrounding remote working. And with working from home likely to become much more prevalent, it seems there’s still plenty more work to do. For most staff, remote working has been a new experience: more than 80% […] More
Evil Corp, one of the biggest malware operations on the internet, has slowly returned to life after several of its members were charged by the US Department of Justice in December 2019. In a report shared with ZDNet today, Fox-IT, a division within the NCC Group, has detailed the group’s latest activities following the DOJ […] More
For years, security researchers have warned that every device left exposed online without being protected by a firewall is an attack surface. Hackers can deploy exploits to forcibly take control over the device, or they can just connect to the exposed port if no authentication is required. Devices hacked this way are often enslaved in […] More
