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France has defended its homebrew coronavirus-tracing app as European countries continue to clash with Google and Apple over how the apps should gather and use consumer data. Countries across the world are clamoring to create ways to deal with the spread of COVID-19. Alongside pouring investment into vaccine and drug therapy trials, contact-tracing apps have […] More
In discussing the cybersecurity posture of the nation’s healthcare industry, the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has revealed it was itself the target of an attempted breach. The ADHA, the system administrator for Australia’s My Health Record, discussed two breaches that were worthy of notifying the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). Speaking with […] More
The FBI says hackers are exploiting a three-year-old vulnerability in a Magento plugin to take over online stores and plant a malicious script that records and steals buyers’ payment card data. This type of attack is known as web skimming, e-skimming, or Magecart, and the FBI previously warned about a rise in attacks in October, […] More
Small businesses are increasingly seeing the same cyberattacks and techniques as large enterprises in contrast with previous years, according to the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. The last time Verizon researchers tracked small business attacks was in the 2013 DBIR. At that time, SMBs were hit with payment card cybercrime. Today, the attacks are […] More
The plague of enterprises leaving cloud storage holding private data unprotected is starting to show up in the security statistics and is one of the few attacks on the rise, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report for 2020. That reality is both good and bad, said Gabe Bassett, senior information security data scientist […] More
The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit levied against Facebook which accused the company of providing support to terrorists by failing to control user-generated content. On Monday, the court sent the issue back to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit with instructions to dismiss the case (.PDF). Force v. Facebook, as […] More
Square has joined Twitter in permitting employees to work from home on a permanent basis in light of the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, Jack Dorsey — the chief executive of both Twitter and Square — informed Square staff that will have the option to stick with remote working practices even after offices are allowed […] More
[embedded content] Academics have disclosed today a new vulnerability in the Bluetooth wireless protocol, broadly used to interconnect modern devices, such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and smart IoT devices. The vulnerability, codenamed BIAS (Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS), impacts the classic version of the Bluetooth protocol, also known as Basic Rate / Enhanced Data Rate, Bluetooth BR/EDR, […] More
