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Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), a 40-year-old electronics company and a well-known US government contractor, has suffered a ransomware infection, ZDNet has learned. The infection hit the company last week. Among the systems that had data encrypted during the incident were the company’s web servers. Signs of the incident are still visible online. Encrypted files and […] More
Starting today, companies across the world have a new free web service at their disposal that will automatically send out email notifications if one of their employees gets phished. The service is named “I Got Phished” and is managed by Abuse.ch, a non-profit organization known for its malware and cyber-crime tracking operations. Just like all […] More
We know Facebook likes to play Big Brother. Collecting, sharing, and using your personal data is how Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg became worth more than $80 billion. What you may not know is just how much of your data Facebook and its allies collect about you even when you’re not on Facebook. Now, […] More
Bug hunting may never have been so lucrative: Google has revealed that it dished out a record $6.5 million in 2019 – that is, double the amount paid out the previous year – in rewards for researchers who successfully uncovered vulnerabilities across the search-to-advertising giant’s vast range of products and services. Google’s Vulnerability Reward Programs […] More
Last week, seven projects in the UK dedicated to developing tools that will improve cybersecurity in self-driving vehicles received a grand total of £1.2 million ($1.56 million), or about £171,500 ($222,847) each, to boost their research – a sum partly funded by the government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV). Speaking at a conference […] More
Getty Images/iStockphoto Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability inside a core email-related library used by many BSD and Linux distributions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-7247, impacts OpenSMTPD, an open-source implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol. The library is normally included with distros that are designed to operate on servers, allowing the server to handle SMTP-related […] More
The iPhone 11 and 11 Pro line up contains a chip that allows its exact position to be calculated relative to other devices in the same room. Last year, it came to light that this tracking feature remained active despite turning off Location Services. The chip, called the U1, controls a feature called Ultra Wideband, […] More
Australian law enforcement agencies used their controversial new powers under the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 just seven times in seven months, and all were voluntary Technical Assistance Requests (TARs). That’s five times by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and twice by the NSW Police from the time the laws […] More
