image copyright Getty Images. About sharing The world’s largest meat processing company has paid the equivalent of $11m (£7.8m) in ransom to put an end to a major cyber-attack.
In a ransomware attack, hackers get into a computer network and threaten to cause disruption or delete files unless a ransom in cryptocurrency is paid.
Women in Cybersecurity: Why Diversity Matters | IT Security News 24. March 2021 March is Women’s History Month, so it’s a perfect time of the year to look back and see how far women in cybersecurity have come. From pioneering tech to achieving a gender-equal future in today’s world, it’s a story of invention, strength…
How private are Android apps? Security researchers discovered 23 mobile applications leaking the personal data of their users, and making it public to the open internet. According to a new Check Point research, chat messages, emails, locations, passwords, photos, and other personal details associated with several Android apps can be accessed by anyone with internet…
Apple has released security updates to patch three macOS and tvOS zero-day vulnerabilities attackers exploited in the wild, with the former being abused by the XCSSET malware to bypass macOS privacy protections. In all three cases, Apple said that it is aware of reports that the security issues “may have been actively exploited,” but it…
Details have emerged about a high severity security vulnerability affecting a software driver used in HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers that has remained undetected since 2005. Tracked as CVE-2021-3438 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue concerns a buffer overflow in a print driver installer package named “SSPORT.SYS” that can enable remote privilege and arbitrary code execution….
On Tuesday, Amnesty International stated that French President Emmanual Macron was included on a list of 14 current or former heads of state who were potentially targeted for hacking through a product called Pegasus made by the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group. The organization called the incident an unprecedented revelation that should shock world leaders….
Defense DOD expands bug bounty program to public networks, systems By Lauren C. Williams May 04, 2021 White hat hackers will get even more opportunities to poke around the Defense Department for vulnerabilities now that it has expanded its bug bounty program to include all of its publicly available information systems. The…
