Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Hackers Used Backdoor to Access Production Environment Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • March 17, 2021 Email security vendor Mimecast, which was targeted by the SolarWinds supply chain hack in January, reports in a Tuesday update that the hackers used the “Sunburst” backdoor as…
Cryptocurrency Fraud , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Social Engineering Graham Clark Sentenced to Serve 3 Years in Juvenile Facility Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 17, 2021 Graham Ivan Clark (Photo: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office) The Florida teen whom prosecutors call the mastermind behind last year’s hack of 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to…
The pandemic has shown that the US needs to rebuild its public health infrastructure, Dr Minor says.
Application Security & Online Fraud , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Google Ad Leads to Malicious App Disguised as Telegram Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 17, 2021 Jannis Kirschner, an independent security researcher based in Basel, Switzerland, searched on Sunday for the desktop version of the popular messaging application Telegram. See Also:…
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Augmented reality app, Museum Alive, is a continuation of Sir David Attenborough’s Bafta award-winning series of the same name. Featuring a Saber-toothed tiger (Smilodon), a flying reptile (Dimorphodon) and a sea creature (Opabinia), the app allows you close encounters with the animals and the opportunity to learn about the worlds they lived in. BBC Click’s…
The latest update patches a total of five vulnerabilities affecting the browser’s desktop versions Google has rolled out an update for its Chrome web browser that fixes five security flaws, including a zero-day vulnerability that is known to be actively exploited by malicious actors. The bugs affect the Windows, macOS, and Linux versions of the…
Several European countries have paused their use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over reports of blood clots in a small number of individuals who have received the jab. But lives have been put at risk by not giving people the vaccine, the director of the vaccine centre at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Check Point Research Tracks Tenfold Increase in 5 Days Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 16, 2021 From Thursday through Monday, Check Point Research tracked a tenfold increase in the number of attempts to exploit vulnerable on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers as many organizations are…
Several European countries have paused the use of a coronavirus vaccine over the safety concerns, but delays to the rollout of coronavirus vaccine programmes will have an economic fallout, a professor of economics at Koç University, has said. When there is a slowdown in vaccination programmes people who are not immunised will need to minimise…
