The Infosecurity ISACA North America Expo and Conference got off to a suitably heady start today with its opening keynote, given by the noted cybersecurity expert and visionary Theresa Payton. Payton provided a lively analysis of the current state of

Over 100,000 people were targeted by a large-scale summer threat campaign using fake IRS websites. The extensive phishing campaign was discovered by researchers at cloud security solutions provider Akamai. Akamai’s research team recorded threat actors using hundreds of different domains

Security researchers are urging Docker customers to upgrade to the latest version after detailing a proof-of-concept (PoC) attack exploiting a critical vulnerability, which could lead to full container escape. The CVE-2019-14271 flaw was fixed in Docker version 19.03.1, but if

A US cybersecurity conference focused on protecting power and utilities is tripling the number of events it will stage next year. The decision to hold three events instead of the usual one was announced today by CyberCon Power & Utilities

At Infosecurity ISACA North America Expo and Conference in New York this week Ken Munro, partner at Pen Test Partners, took visitors on what he referred to as a “scary, creepy tour” of IoT-related security issues. Munro explained that a

Speaking at Infosecurity ISACA North America Expo and Conference in New York, Marc Keating, senior sales engineer at Arctic Wolf Networks, outlined steps organizations can take to gauge whether or not they have suffered a data compromise. Keating said that

The anti-virus industry has teamed up with victim support groups in a new anti-stalkerware alliance focused on shutting down the malicious surveillance apps. The Coalition Against Stalkerware features Kaspersky, Norton, Avira, G Data and Malwarebytes alongside the Electronic Frontier Foundation

New malspam email campaign discovered with fake windows updater and its Builder, through which hackers launching Cyborg Ransomware to encrypt the compromised systems files. A spam email claims to be from Microsoft and email body urges the victims to Install

New data leak threatens the world of finance after the Panama Papers, hackers published 2TB of the Cayman National bank’s confidential data. The Cayman Islands are a fiscal paradise that attracts money of questionable origin from all over the world,

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company: ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, detected

Researchers discovered a critical vulnerability in the Android Camera app that allows hackers to remotely control the camera to take photos and/or record video using the malicious app without app permission. This Android camera vulnerability considers being a serious concern

A mobile payments provider exposed the data of thousands of US restaurant goers for 16 months by failing to follow security protocols. PayMyTab didn’t change the security settings to “private” on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket that the

Macy’s is notifying some of its online customers that their card details have been skimmed as part of another Magecart data breach. According to the breach notice, the firm only found out about the incident around a week after it

A major ransomware attack on Louisiana state IT infrastructure yesterday forced multiple services offline, including government websites, email and internal applications. The incident was revealed by Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards in a series of tweets on Monday afternoon, local

Cybersecurity and technology firms have revealed plans to create 2,000 new jobs in Chicago, Illinois, next year. The encouraging news was revealed yesterday when representatives of 15 different businesses joined the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, to celebrate the city’s third

Macy’s has started notifying some of its customers that crooks used a software skimmer to steal their personal and financial information. Macy’s has started notifying some of its customers that discovered a software skimmer on its website used by crooks