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Nebraska Medicine has suffered a data breach after an employee accessed patients’ medical records for almost three months without authorization or even the thinnest sliver of a legitimate reason. A routine audit of the medical record system conducted in October

A virtual private network (VPN) used by NASA, Shell, and BT has been found to have multiple vulnerabilities. Weaknesses in the Aviatrix VPN were detected by Immersive Labs researcher and content engineer Alex Seymour on October 7, 2019. The multiple

British e-commerce store Sweaty Betty has become the latest victim of a digital skimming attack after customers unwittingly had their card data stolen over the period of a week. In an email sent to customers, the women’s fashion retailer confirmed

From the University of Nebraska in the U.S. to a leading Canadian credit union, and a dustup between Tesla Motors and China’s Alibaba, insider data theft is trending in IT security anxiety. Insider data theft isn’t new, but it’s a

A cybersecurity company has teamed up with a 3D accessory designer to produce a ring that could tackle the issue of what to do if your biometric data is stolen. The attractive and wearable piece of jewelry features a synthetic

Jamaica has announced plans to develop a national cybersecurity policy in 2020. According to the Jamaica Observer, the plan to create a strategy to protect the island country’s citizens from cybercrime was announced by Jamaica’s minister of national security, Dr.

Third-party libraries, container components and even remote workers represent a major supply chain risk to organizations as they head into a new decade, according to Trend Micro. The security giant’s new 2020 predictions report, The New Norm, warned of a

Experts spotted a piece of malware dubbed ZeroCleare that has been used in highly targeted attacks aimed at energy and industrial organizations in the Middle East. Security experts at IBM X-Force found a piece of malware dubbed ZeroCleare (the name

The python security team has removed two malicious python packages that introduced with the Python Package Index (PyPI) aimed to steal SSH and GPG keys from the infected developer projects. PyPI is a python repository that helps to locate and

Researchers discovered a previously unknown fully-featured Python RAT called”PiXie” escalate the Windows admin privilege to the ransomware in the healthcare and education industries. PyXie initially observed in 2018, since then it targets various industries and now deployed in an ongoing

Wireshark 3.0.7 released with a number of security updates and fixed several other bugs that reside in the Wireshark components. Wireshark also updated Protocol Support for various protocols such as BGP, HomePlug AV, IEEE 802.11, and TLS. Wireshark is known

Ransomware attacks continue to threaten organizations worldwide, CyrusOne, one of the biggest data center providers in the US, is facing with an infection. A new ransomware attack made the headlines, systems at CyrusOne, one of the biggest data center providers

Today, nine of the most exceptional new cybersecurity businesses will pitch their latest products and innovations aimed at securing the digital economy at CyLon’s 10th London Demo Day. The nine companies will showcase their products to over 150 prospective customers,

Experts at Cisco Talos found two vulnerabilities in the GoAhead embedded web server, including a critical remote code execution flaw. GoAhead is the world’s most popular, tiny embedded web server. It is developed by EmbedThis that defines it as compact,

The FBI has confirmed to a US senator that the popular mobile application FaceApp could be a counter-intelligence risk because of its Russian developers. The app — which uses AI to transform the faces of users to make them look

Opening the 19th Black Hat Europe in London, founder Jeff Moss said that over the years the diversity of the security community has grown as well has the expansion of skills to include both hard and soft skills. He also