Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Banisher of ‘The Kaminsky Bug’ Lauded for His Drive to ‘Make Things Better’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Dan Kaminsky in an interview conducted at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco (Photo: ISMG) The information security community is mourning…
Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Banisher of ‘The Kaminsky Bug’ Lauded for His Drive to ‘Make Things Better’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Dan Kaminsky in an interview conducted at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco (Photo: ISMG) The information security community is mourning…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Agencies Say Russia’s SVR Continues to Target Vulnerable Networks Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 26, 2021 The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning of continued cyberthreats stemming from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, which the…
Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security Social Media Giant Says 2 Groups Were Conducting Cyberespionage Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 25, 2021 Facebook says it has disrupted the activities of two Palestinian advanced persistent threat groups that targeted victims across the Middle East as part of cyberespionage campaigns. See…
A threat actor has leaked approximately 20 million BigBasket user records containing personal information and hashed passwords on a popular hacking forum. BigBasket is a popular Indian online grocery delivery service that allows people to shop online for food and deliver it to their homes. This morning, a well-known seller of data breaches known as…
Personal information of 20 million BigBasket users is now available online for anyone to download and use BigBasket is one of most popular grocery delivery companies in India HIGHLIGHTS : BigBasket’s alleged database included personal details of affected users The database has been leaked by a hacker known as ShinyHunters BigBasket has not yet confirmed…
Proofpoint to Be Acquired by Thoma Bravo for $12.3B | IT Security News 26. April 2021 The cybersecurity company will go private following the all-cash transaction. Like this: Like Loading… Related Tags: Dark Reading: Sponsors Endpoint Cybersecurity www.endpoint-cybersecurity.com – Consulting in building your security products– Employee awareness training– Security tests for applications and pentesting… and…
A new report by researchers at a German university suggests that the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth powered Apple-to-Apple data transfer tech could expose your phone number and email address to a stranger who is in Wi-Fi range. All the stranger would need to do is be in range. Technische Universitat Darmstadt researchers suggest that simply opening…
Click Studios, the Australian software house that develops the enterprise password manager Passwordstate, has warned customers to reset passwords across their organizations after a cyberattack on the password manager. An email sent by Click Studios to customers said the company had confirmed that attackers had “compromised” the password manager’s software update feature in order to…
More M&A activity is underway in the red-hot field of cybersecurity. In the latest development, private equity giant Thoma Bravo is buying Proofpoint, the SaaS security vendor, for $12.3 billion in cash. Proofpoint is traded publicly on the Nasdaq exchange and as of its closing price on Friday, it had a market cap of $7.5…
