image copyright Getty Images. About sharing Microsoft has blamed a Chinese cyber-espionage group for attacks on its mail server software.
The tech giant said the hackers belonged to a state-backed group, which was a “highly skilled and sophisticated actor”.
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date. The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industry last month. “Within seconds, the botnet bombarded the Cloudflare edge…
New malware with extensive spyware capabilities steals data from infected Android devices and is designed to automatically trigger whenever new info is ready for exfiltration. The spyware can only be installed as a ‘System Update‘ app via third-party Android app stores as it was never available on Google’s Play Store. This drastically limits the number…
Last month, top executives from Amazon, Microsoft, Cisco, FireEye and dozens of other firms joined the Justice Department in delivering an 81-page report calling for an international coalition to combat ransomware. Leading the effort inside the Justice Department are Lisa Monaco, the deputy attorney general, and John Carlin, who led the agency’s national security division…
That didn’t go down well with China’s belligerent foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, who said the US statement was arrogant and overbearing. “We didn’t buy it in Anchorage and we surely won’t buy it in Tianjin,” he said. With such tensions and such low expectations of the outcome of the meeting the best the Americans…
Entornointeligente.com / Russia will take measures that will “force the authors of this provocation to understand their full responsibility for destroying the basis of normal relations between the countries,” its Foreign Ministry says in a statement on Sunday. In this December 26, 2016 file photo, a Russian flag flying at half-mast is seen above the…
Windows Hello is a biometrics-based technology that enables Windows 10 users (and those who update to Windows 11) to authenticate secure access to their devices, apps, online services and networks with just a fingerprint, iris scan or facial recognition. The sign-in mechanism is essentially an alternative to passwords and is widely considered to be a…
