What Is PII And How Do Hackers Use It?
Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data that can be used to uniquely identify an…
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Blocking Social Engineering by Foreign Bad Actors: The Role of the New Foreign Malign Influence Center
The U.S. government created a new office to block disinformation. The new Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) oversees efforts that span U.S. military, law enforcement, intelligence, and diplomatic agencies.
Why You Should Protect Your Identity
Identity theft is one of the most prevalent types of cybercrime, with millions of people…
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The Risks Of Not Backing Up Your PC
In today’s digital age, we store most of our valuable information on our personal computers….
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#IdentityManagementDay – Best Practices to Help Keep Your Organization Secure
By Chinatu Uzuegbu, CISSP, CEO/Managing Cyber Security Consultant at RoseTech CyberCrime Solutions Ltd. We kicked off the Identity and Access Management Processes from the Top-Level Management approach. The Identity and Access Management Security Steering Committee is a group of C-Suites leaders, also referred to as the respective Data and Asset Owners from the various Business Units of my organization. The group met and established the governing policy around the Identity and Access Management Processes. The governance covers the Mandatory Access Control Policy and Trust Policy of the organization which are automatically enforced as the baselines on default. The governance of…
Push Notification Is More Secure Than SMS 2FA, So Why the Reluctance to Enable It?
Forget SMS 2FA authentication – Twitter and others are making it less attractive by either charging for it or phasing it out altogether. But there’s a better alternative if only tech companies were willing to invest. By John E. Dunn Mention Twitter and two factor authentication (2FA) in the same breath right now and security watchers will immediately think about a puzzling announcement the company made less than two months ago. The gist was that anyone using or adding SMS 2FA to their account would have to buy a subscription to Twitter Blue for $8 per month to continue to…
Analysis: Hackers Exploit Zero-Day to Siphon $1.5 Million From Bitcoin ATMs
Anxiety about the security of hot wallets grows as General Bytes customers are hit by a zero-day flaw in the company’s Bitcoin ATMs. By John E. Dunn It’s fair to say that crypto has an image problem. What it didn’t need was a Bitcoin ATM (BATM) hack to generate even more bad publicity. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened on March 17-18, according to General Bytes, one of the best-known makers of BATMs on the market. Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in a video interface that’s part of the General Bytes CAS server platform to steal 56 Bitcoins (worth $1.5 million)…
Cybersecurity Industry News Review – March 21, 2023
KillNet is bad for your health, TikTok facing further bans, ransomware impacts cancer test results, Russia allegedly increasing its cyberwarfare efforts. By Joe Fay Microsoft Demonstrates How KillNet Is Bad for Our Healthcare Sector Microsoft has highlighted a rise in DDoS attacks on healthcare organizations, mapping a three-fold increase in attacks over three months. It said it tracked 10 to 20 attacks per day on healthcare organizations on Azure in November but was seeing 40 to 60 per day in February. The attack mix changed over this time, it added, with over half of attacks now being UDP floods, with…
Why ChatGPT Will Not Take Over The World
As an artificial intelligence model, ChatGPT is capable of processing vast amounts of information, generating…
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Cybersecurity Industry News Review – March 14, 2023
The U.K. Online Safety Bill triggers a security rebuke from WhatsApp, the Czech Republic concerned about TikTok, an international law enforcement effort shuts down the NetWire RAT infrastructure, while a study suggests workforce malaise towards reporting security incidents. By Joe Fay WhatsApp Would Leave U.K. Rather Than Break Encryption WhatsApp would pull its end-to-end encrypted messaging service in the U.K., rather than submit to any requirement to weaken its privacy stance to comply with the U.K. government’s Online Safety Bill. WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart said that 98 per cent of its users were outside the U.K., and ALL users wanted…