Information Technology

State-backed hacking groups are targeting healthcare and other organisations involved in national and international responses to coronavirus pandemic, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have warned. Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups — sophisticated hacking groups generally linked to a nation-state […] More

Image via now-defunct Infinity Black website Europol announced today the arrest of five Polish hackers who were part of the Infinity Black hacking group. The group formed in late 2018 and was primarily known for operating the Infinity[.]black website, where they sold access to “collections” of user credentials. The collections were assembled together by gathering […] More

Mozilla has released today Firefox 76 to the Stable desktop channel for Windows, macOS, and Linux. This new release comes with with bug fixes, new features, and security patches. The highlight of the Firefox 76 release is a suite of new features added to Firefox’s built-in password manager, also known as Firefox Lockwise (available at […] More

Enterprise investment in cybersecurity is improving but deployment and maintenance issues are allowing far too many successful attacks against corporate networks, a new report suggests.  On Tuesday, FireEye’s Mandiant released its annual Security Effectiveness Report. Based on enterprise contributions, penetration tests, and the analysis of 100 enterprise-level production environments across 11 industries, the report concludes […] More

The UK government has launched a coronavirus tracing app in the hopes of tracking the spread of COVID-19. Announced on Monday at the government’s daily coronavirus briefing, the “NHS COVID-19 app” has been developed by NHSX, the technology arm of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).  Here’s everything you need to know. Is the app […] More

Image: FBI German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant today for a hacker working for the Russian military on charges of hacking the German Parliament in the spring of 2015. German newspaper the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, who broke the story today, says German authorities are looking for Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, 29, from Kursk, Russia. German authorities […] More

Screenshot: Chris Duckett/ZDNet Secretary of Home Affairs Mike Pezzullo has batted away concerns that American authorities would be able to access data saved in the COVIDSafe app’s National Data Store under the provisions of the US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) via the proposed International Production Orders Bill. Pezzullo told the Senate […] More

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS), as one of its roles, will have oversight of how the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) uses the international production orders (IPO) regime, if legislated. As a result, it focused its submission [PDF] to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) and its inquiry into the […] More