Npower shuts down mobile app following data breach
UK energy giant Npower has permanently closed its mobile app, after finding that hackers had used it to steal sensitive information from customers. The company will not bring the app back in the future,…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is one of the top politicians reportedly spied on by the US. (AP pic) PARIS: France, Germany and other European countries demanded answers Monday following reports the US spied on its allies using Danish underwater cables, as questions mounted over whether Denmark knew about the operation. In an investigative report on Sunday,…
Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Dutch Researchers First Notified Kaseya in April of Vulnerabilities Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • July 7, 2021 Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola has defended his company’s actions but acknowledged those affected by a ransomwware attack are “very, very frustrated.” (Source: Kaseya) Miami-based software company Kaseya worked…
Critical Patch Out for Month-Old Pulse Secure VPN 0-Day Under Attack | IT Security News 4. May 2021 Ivanti, the company behind Pulse Secure VPN appliances, has released a security patch to remediate a critical security vulnerability that was found being actively exploited in the wild by at least two different threat actors.Tracked as CVE-2021-22893 (CVSS score…
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…
New malware active for more than a year is compromising Windows containers to compromise Kubernetes clusters with the end goal of backdooring them and paving the way for attackers to abuse them in other malicious activities. Kubernetes, initially developed by Google and currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is an open-source system that…
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Chris Inglis to serve as the country’s first national cyber director, Jen Easterly to direct the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and additional Homeland Security Department leaders. Lawmakers of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where both nominees delivered input, praised their selection Monday. Inglis, a former deputy director of the…
