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Image: Ryo Yoshitake, NTT Ltd. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT), the 64th biggest company in the world, according to the Fortune 500 list, has disclosed today a security breach. NTT says hackers gained access to its internal network and stole information on 621 customers from its communications subsidiary, NTT Communications, the largest telecommunications company in […] More
Cisco has disclosed today a security breach that impacted a small part of its backend infrastructure. In a security alert published today, Cisco said that hackers used a vulnerability in the SaltStack software package, which Cisco bundles with some products, to gain access to six servers: us-1.virl.info us-2.virl.info us-3.virl.info us-4.virl.info vsm-us-1.virl.info vsm-us-2.virl.info The six servers […] More
Image: Pankaj Patel, NSA, ZDNet The US National Security Agency (NSA) has published today a security alert warning of a new wave of cyberattacks against email servers, attacks conducted by one of Russia’s most advanced cyber-espionage units. The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a […] More
Half of employees are cutting corners with regards to cybersecurity while working from home – and could be putting their organisation at risk of cyber attacks or data breaches as a result. The coronavirus pandemic has forced both employers and employees to quickly adjust to remote working – and often without the watchful eyes of […] More
Whilst staff tend to stick to the rules imposed by the business, many in more senior roles ask for relaxed mobile security protocols New research released today from London-based security platform MobileIron has revealed that the C-suite is the most likely group within an organization to ask for relaxed mobile security protocols, despite this group […] More
The Windows 10 May 2020 update, also known as Windows 10 2004, has started rolling out to users today. This new Windows 10 version comes with many new features, detailed in a previous ZDNet article, here, including the likes of a revamped Network Status page, the addition of GPU card temperatures to the Task Manager, […] More
Valak first emerged on the scene as a loader for other threats, but over the past six months, everything has changed for the loader-turned-infostealer. Featured stories The malware has been spotted in active campaigns mainly focused entities in the US and Germany, having previously been bundled together with Ursnif and IcedID banking Trojan payloads (1,2). […] More
The operators of the NetWalker (Mailto) ransomware have announced today that they’ve infected the network of Michigan State University, one of the US’ oldest educational institutes. The ransomware gang has given MSU administrators a week to pay an undisclosed ransom demand to decrypt their files. In case MSU officials refuse to pay or choose to […] More
