image copyright Reuters. About sharing Businessman John McAfee, creator of the McAfee anti-virus software, has been charged in the US with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering.
Mr McAfee and his bodyguard Jimmy Gale Watson Jr are accused of promoting cryptocurrencies to Mr McAfee’s large Twitter following to inflate prices.
Cybersecurity experts at PiiQ Media report detecting a social media bot campaign that has been promoting “meme stocks” like GameStop Corp, suggesting that a hacking group might be behind the recent purchase frenzy powered by Reddit. After a group of users organized through Reddit forums, the price of GameStop shares skyrocketed, in an attempt to…
Boston Public Library Hit With Cyberattack | IT Security News 30. August 2021 This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek RSS Feed The Boston Public Library was hit with a cyberattack earlier this week that crippled its computer network, the library said in a statement Friday. There is no evidence that sensitive employee or patron…
Microsoft is rolling out passwordless login support over the coming weeks, allowing customers to sign in to Microsoft accounts without using a password. The company first allowed commercial customers to rollout passwordless authentication in their environments in March after a breakthrough year in 2020 when Microsoft reported that over 150 million users were logging into…
Application Security , Application Security & Online Fraud , Breach Notification Three FortiOS Vulnerabilities Being Exploited for the Campaign Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 3, 2021 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI warn that unidentified nation-state actors are scanning for three vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s operating system, FortiOS, to likely…
Cybersecurity CISA launches new initiative to combat ransomware By Chris Riotta Aug 05, 2021 The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has officially unveiled the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), a new effort to combat ransomware attacks by expanding info sharing between the public and private sectors, with Amazon, Google and Microsoft…
The White House was working closely with top US fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline on Sunday (9 May) to help it recover from a ransomware attack that forced the company to shut a critical fuel network supplying populous eastern states. The attack is one of the most disruptive digital ransom schemes reported and has prompted…
