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Teleconferencing app Zoom announced Wednesday that it has implemented data center routing capabilities for account administrators — a key step in the company’s efforts to improve Zoom’s security posture. CNET Personal Finance Your Money, Your Future As tech extends to personal finance, CNET’s experts share news, advice and recommendations for making the best financial decisions. […] More
As cyber criminals continue to exploit the coronavirus outbreak for their own gain, the UK’s mobile and banking industries have teamed up with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to prevent fraudsters sending scam text messages attempting to exploit the crisis. Text messaging scams – also known as smishing – see scammers attempt to trick […] More
Spam and phishing emails are a constant plague in our inboxes, but more recently, sextortion campaigns have also appeared on the radar. This particular brand of fraud attempts to capitalize on how some of us view adult content — a personal and private matter, and one of which we would not necessarily want contacts such […] More
Ransomware attacks have become more commonplace than payment card theft incidents for the first time, as cyber criminals alter how they go about their malicious operations in an effort to gain the biggest financial reward for the least amount of effort. Analysis of more than a trillion security events over the past year and hundreds […] More
A mysterious hacker group has been taking over ad servers for the past nine months in order to insert malicious ads into their ad inventory, ads that redirect users to malware download sites. This clever hacking campaign was discovered last month by cyber-security firm Confiant and appears to have been running for at least nine […] More
Microsoft has released important security updates for Office, Office 365 ProPlus, and Paint 3D products to address multiple newly disclosed bugs in Autodesk’s library for the FBX file format for 3D animations. The updates affect Microsoft products that integrate the Autodesk FBX 3D library, which include Microsoft Office 2016 Click-to-Run (C2R) for 32-bit and 64-bit […] More
A range of smart Internet of Things (IoT) hubs commonly found in our homes and offices are harboring severe security flaws, researchers have found. On Wednesday, the ESET cybersecurity team said three different hubs — the Fibaro Home Center Lite, eQ-3’s Homematic Central Control Unit (CCU2) and ElkoEP’s eLAN-RF-003 — contained bugs dangerous enough to […] More
The Australian government was hoping to introduce the Data Availability and Transparency Act (DATA) by 30 June 2020 as part of its commitment to establish stronger safeguards around the sharing of data across government. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic affecting its timeline, consultation on an exposure draft of the Bill, scheduled for the first half of […] More
