DDoS Protection , Security Operations Nokia Deepfield: Number of Attacks Surged 50% Over 15 Months Rashmi Ramesh • June 18, 2021 The daily peak of DDoS attack traffic increased 100% from January 2020 and May 2021, reaching 3 Tbps, with most of the high-bandwidth, high-intensity attacks originating from less than 50 hosting companies,…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management Also Featured: Analysis of Regulatory Landscape; Comments From Rep. Jim Langevin Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • June 18, 2021 Clockwise, from top left: Doug Olenick, Anna Delaney, Tom Field and Scott Ferguson In the latest weekly…
A sharp rise in the number of new coronavirus infections has been seen in Russia. Konstantin Severinov, a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, told BBC World News that only about 10% of the country was fully vaccinated and there was a strong anti-vaccination sentiment in the country. Mandatory vaccines for staff in public-facing roles…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Endpoint Security Closing EncroChat and Sky, Plus Careful Word-of-Mouth Management, Drove Anom Uptake Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 18, 2021 The FBI’s map of where Anom users were located as of May (Source: court documents) The global law enforcement “Anom” honeypot operation racked up impressive statistics for…
Covid may have put much of the world into lockdown but conflict, persecution and human rights violations has led to a record number of refugees, the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) has said. According the UNHCR’s 2020 Global Trends report, some two thirds of the world’s refugees came from just five countries; Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South…
Carnival Corp. said Thursday that a data breach in March might have exposed personal information about customers and employees on Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises. In a letter to customers, the company indicated that outsiders might have gained access to Social Security numbers, passport numbers, dates of birth, addresses and health…
Flight of the Sky Lion at the Legoland Windsor Resort is the UK’s first flying theatre ride. The adventure is projected onto a 20m (65ft) high concave screen and the gondola, where the audience sits, is capable of a 30 degree swing, 23 degree pitch and 3 degrees of yaw (left or right movement). BBC…
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Amazon opens its fifth till-less, “just walk out” grocery store in London’s Chalk Farm neighbourhood An autonomous artificially intelligent ship, the Mayflower 400, sets sail across the Atlantic ocean The Young Voices choir becomes the largest group of children to…
President Joe Biden has revealed that he and President Vladimir Putin of Russia have agreed to establish “what’s off limits” from cyber activity. They also discussed how each country would “follow up” with cyberattacks that originated in either country. This press conference came after Biden’s four-hour meeting with Putin in Geneva. 16 critical infrastructure sectors,…
Ukrainian law enforcement officials reported the arrest of the Clop ransomware group on Wednesday. The organization had been disrupting infrastructure and carrying attacks around the world since at least 2019, according to The Hacker News. Six defendants were charged as part of an international operation involving Ukraine’s National Police and authorities from Interpol, Korea,…
