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Wait, was it “Idiots39” or “39idiots”? Getty Images/iStockphoto I’d completely forgotten. Actually, I’m not sure I’d ever remembered — or even known — that the first Thursday of May is World Password Day. I’m grateful, therefore, to America’s PR professionals for pestering me into awareness. After all, online security is a booming concern. So sifting […] More
Fresenius, Europe’s largest private hospital operator, has confirmed a ransomware attack that has limited some operations. The Bad Homburg, Germany-based organization told cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs that a “computer virus” has caused a disruption, but there is no impact on patient care. Fresenius employs 290,000 employees in more than 100 countries through a range of […] More
There’s been a big increase in cyberattacks targeting Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) as criminals look to exploit the rise in working from home as a result of the coronavirus and social-distancing measures. RDP is a key component of enabling remote work, allowing employees to connect to their organisation while outside the four walls of […] More
Image: Screenshot from Golden Kamuy anime series by Geno Studio. For almost eight years, a hacker has silently hijacked D-Link NVRs (network video recorders) and NAS (network-attached storage) devices into a botnet that had the sole purpose of connecting to online websites and download anime videos. Named Cereals and first spotted in 2012, the botnet […] More
Image: krapalm South Korean smartphone vendor Samsung released this week a security update to fix a critical vulnerability impacting all smartphones sold since 2014. The security flaw resides in how the Android OS flavor running on Samsung devices handles the custom Qmage image format (.qmg), which Samsung smartphones started supporting on all devices released since […] More
In one of the most complex and innovative hacking campaigns detected to date, a hacker group created a fake icons hosting website in order to disguise malicious code meant to steal payment card data from hacked websites. The operation is what security researchers refer to these days as a web skimming, e-skimming, or a Magecart […] More
A new spear-phishing campaign has targeted executives and others in attempt to steal login credentials and bank account details by posing as their smartphone provider. Uncovered by researchers at cybersecurity company Cofense, the attacks come in the form of emails claiming to be from their mobile phone provider, and refer to a problem with their […] More
A new book by Steven Sinofsky, the former head honcho of Office and Windows, details how early Office viruses, WM/Concept.A, Melissa, and ILOVEYOU, combined with Microsoft’s dominance at the time to shape its future and the worldwide PC market. According to Sinofsky, one of the main problems Microsoft faced in the early 2000s was that […] More
