The digital infrastructure of the Bitzlato virtual currency exchange was taken down in an international operation involving authorities from the US, France, Belgium, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands. Authorities said that nearly half of Bitzlato’s transactions were tied to criminal activity. Five people have been arrested in all: three in Spain, one in Cyprus, …
In a January 19 statement, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that according to a preliminary review, “contract personnel unintentionally deleted files while working to correct synchronization between the live primary database and a backup database. The agency has so far found no evidence of a cyber-attack or malicious intent.” The statement also notes …
According to a new report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), US federal agencies have implemented just 40 percent of the 335 cybersecurity recommendations made by GAO since 2010. The report, Cybersecurity High-Risk Series: Challenges in Establishing a Comprehensive Cybersecurity Strategy and Performing Effective Oversight, is the first of four planned reports examining the …
Apple released fixes for multiple security issues in iOS and macOS, including a remotely exploitable zero-day flaw in iOS. The type confusion issue in Apple WebKit browser engine was deemed serious enough to prompt Apple to release updates for older versions of iOS. Note Impressive from Apple to release an update for hardware released 10 …
Security researcher Dawid Potocki discovered that more than 300 motherboard models from MSI do not implement the Secure Boot feature by default, which means that they will allow any bootloader, signed or unsigned, to run. According to an MSI Reddit post, the company says they “preemptively set Secure Boot as Enabled and ‘Always Execute’ as …
The personal information of students and teachers in India was exposed on the Internet for more than a year. The Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (Diksha) app stored the data on an unprotected Azure cloud server. Diksha has made data privacy news before: last year, a report from Human Rights Watch found that the app …
Studies from two security firms suggest that ransomware victims are increasingly refusing to pay the attackers’ demands. According to Chainalysis, ransomware payments fell from $766 million in 2021 to $457 in 2022. Coveware reports that 76 percent of ransomware victims paid the ransom demands in 2019, while that figure fell to 41 percent in 2022. …
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has published IPv6 security guidance to help the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal agencies with the transition to IPv6. One concern is dual stacked networks (networks that are running IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time), as this poses additional security risks, including an increased attack surface. …
Researchers from HUMAN have taken down a sizeable ad fraud scheme that spoofed more than 1,700 apps and managed to generate 12 billion ad requests a day. By injecting JavaScript into the ads, the scammers were able to layer multiple ads, registering views for ads that users did not see. HUMAN dubbed the malicious campaign …
The FBI has formally attributed the hack of the Harmony cryptocurrency bridge platform to Lazarus, a cyber-espionage group working for the North Korean government. The Harmony crypto-heist took place on June 23, 2022, and resulted in the theft of $100 million in cryptocurrency assets. Less than a week after the incident, blockchain tracking company Elliptic …
This article analyses the cloud opportunity and gives recommendations and guidance for managed print services (MPS) providers that are expanding their cloud-based offerings. It reveals the demands and objectives of organisations with a more advanced cloud strategy and shows how their behaviour is distinct from companies that are more inclined to keep IT infrastructure and …
Nutrition becomes crucial if you have a problem with brain development. For example, doctors claim that a child’s food plays a significant role in autism. The treatment is relatively easy if you can think about eating a healthy diet with enough nutrition. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is most common among youngsters. Due to its problems …
This article could start by reviewing the college that closed permanently after a ransomware attack or the large school district that suffered an incident during a recent holiday weekend. Or it could focus on how critical infrastructure—such as water treatment plants, pipelines, and meat processing plants—are increasingly under attack. We could even comment on the …
This primer on operationalizing Environmental, Safety and Governance (ESG) goals explores the evolution of risk and compliance management, articulates the key role of ethics and compliance learning, and highlights the transformative power of platforms that connect risk management data with an ethical culture across the enterprise. In this article, ESG: Strategic Approaches to Thrive in …
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