Dec 19, 2022Ravie Lakshmanan A Rust variant of a ransomware strain known as Agenda has been observed in the wild, making it the latest malware …
Facebook Cracks Down on Spyware Vendors from U.S., China, Russia, Israel, and India
Meta Platforms disclosed that it took down no less than 200 covert influence operations since 2017 spanning roughly 70 countries across 42 languages. The social …
Google Takes Gmail Security to the Next Level with Client-Side Encryption
Dec 18, 2022Ravie Lakshmanan Google on Friday announced that its client-side encryption for Gmail is in beta to its Workspace and education customers to secure …
Samba Issues Security Updates to Patch Multiple High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Dec 17, 2022Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Network Security Samba has released software updates to remediate multiple vulnerabilities that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker …
Trojanized Windows 10 Installer Used in Cyberattacks Against Ukrainian Government Entities
Government entities in Ukraine have been breached as part of a new campaign that leveraged trojanized versions of Windows 10 installer files to conduct post-exploitation …
Ex-Twitter employee Gets 3.5 Years Jail for Spying on Behalf of Saudi Arabia
Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Privacy A former Twitter employee who was found guilty of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia by sharing data …
Cyber Security Is Not a Losing Game – If You Start Right Now
Reality has a way of asserting itself, irrespective of any personal or commercial choices we make, good or bad. For example, just recently, the city …
GitHub Announces Free Secret Scanning for All Public Repositories
Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananSecure Coding / Code Hosting GitHub on Thursday said it is making available its secret scanning service to all public repositories on …
Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm
Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Data Security The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the Department of Commerce, announced[1] Thursday …
Minecraft Servers Under Attack: Microsoft Warns About Cross-Platform DDoS Botnet
Dec 16, 2022Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Botnet Microsoft on Thursday flagged a cross-platform botnet that’s primarily designed to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private …
