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Researchers explained that carrying out attacks against the most used default Tor bridges would cost threat actors $17,000 per month. According to security researchers Rob Jansen from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Tavish Vaidya and Micah Sherr from Georgetown

Google, Mozzila, and Apple decided to ban the Kazakhstan root CA certificate to protect the millions of users privacy, it means Chrome, Firefox, and Safari will no longer trust the government-issued root certificate. The security and privacy of HTTPS encrypted

Microsoft announced Edge Insider Bounty Program for Chromium-based version of Edge to uncover the vulnerabilities that are unique to Edge. Researchers who detect high impact vulnerabilities with the latest version of the edge will get rewards up to US$30,000 for

Google and Mozilla today took action to protect the online security and privacy of internet users in Kazakhstan following credible reports that the Kazakhstan government was intercepting internet traffic within the country. A report published on Censoredplanet.org presented evidence that

The healthcare industry has many ailments: financial pressures, a lack of skilled healthcare providers, uncertainties around reform and, in many cases, an increasingly unhealthy populace. But that’s not all it has to deal with. A new report, Beyond Compliance: Cyber

Security experts at FireEye observed Chinese APT41 APT group targeting a web server at a U.S.-based research university. Experts at FireEye observed Chinese APT41 APT group targeting a web server at a U.S.-based research university. The APT41 has been active

The number of account takeover (ATO) cases going to court in the UK climbed 57% in the first half of 2019 as cybercrime continues to professionalize, according to KPMG. The consulting giant’s biannual Fraud Barometer report has been analyzing crime

More than two-thirds (67%) of UK firms believe security concerns are holding back their efforts to grow through digital innovation, with many blaming a lack of engagement at a board level, according to Ernst & Young (EY). The global consultancy

Human error was behind over half (52%) of all cybersecurity incidents detected by Kaspersky in industrial environments last year. The Russian AV vendor’s State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2019 report is compiled from interviews with 282 firms running operational and industrial

Facebook introduced a new tool dubbed off-Facebook activity to control and view the apps and websites that send information to Facebook about your interest and activity. This tracked information allows social media networks to push targeted ads based on user

A security expert discovered that the popular movie ticket subscription service MoviePass has exposed thousands of customer card numbers and personal credit cards. The security expert Mossab Hussein from cybersecurityfirm SpiderSilk, discovered that MoviePass exposed a database containing the credit

Researchers discovered a new wave of a phishing campaign that bypassing the Microsoft APT protection and delivery the Adwind malware via weaponized PDF file to attack utilities Industry network. Adwind, a.k.a Unrecom, Sockrat, JSocket, and jRat is a cross-platform RAT

A design flaw in recent Facebook update FB5, let malicious users remove the profile pictures of other users and set back to the default Facebook profile picture. The vulnerability was discovered by a security researcher Philippe Harewood who had early

For merchants and banks, payment fraud can lead to heavy financial losses and a serious besmirching of reputation. Business and financial institutions received a helping hand today when Visa announced a suite of new industry-first payment security services and capabilities

Visiting a newly registered domain (NRD) is the digital equivalent of picking up a hitchhiker: it might all go smoothly but you could also end up being robbed. While NRDs can be created for perfectly legitimate reasons, such as hosting

Facebook has announced an expansion to its bug bounty program covering third-party apps that abuse user data, to include the Instagram ecosystem. First launched in 2018 in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Data Abuse Bounty program works by