Who’s In Your Wallet? Exploring Mobile Wallet Security
The rise of mobile wallet apps like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay has made it easier for smartphone owners to pay for goods
October 25, 2021
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Russia-Linked SolarWinds Hackers Continue Supply Chain Attack Rampage
The Russia-linked cyberespionage group that hacked IT management solutions provider SolarWinds continues to launch supply chain attacks, Microsoft warned on Monday. The threat actor, tracked
October 25, 2021
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Kansas Man Admits Hacking Public Water Facility
Roughly seven months after being indicted for his actions, a Kansas man admitted in court to tampering with the systems at the Post Rock Rural
October 25, 2021
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CISA Raises Alarm on Critical Vulnerability in Discourse Forum Software
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) over the weekend issued an alert on a critical vulnerability in open source discussion platform Discourse.
October 25, 2021
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Cybersecurity M&A Roundup for October 11-24, 2021
A total of 15 cybersecurity-related acquisitions were announced October 11-24, 2021. Ampa acquires CSS Assure Legal and professional services company Ampa has acquired cybersecurity firm
October 25, 2021
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Changing Approaches to Preventing Ransomware Attacks
Conducting scaled and cost-effective attack surface and digital threat monitoring gives organizations of all sizes the best chance of identifying and defeating their adversaries Attempting
October 25, 2021
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How We Can Narrow the Talent Shortage in Cybersecurity
Just watching the news in recent years — from WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks, to the recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack — cybersecurity is one of
October 25, 2021
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Hardware-grade enterprise authentication without hardware: new SIM security solution for IAM
The average cost of a data breach, according to the latest research by IBM, now stands at USD 4.24 million, the highest reported. The leading
October 25, 2021
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New Attack Let Attacker Collect and Spoof Browser’s Digital Fingerprints
A “potentially devastating and hard-to-detect threat” could be abused by attackers to collect users’ browser fingerprinting information with the goal of spoofing the victims without
October 25, 2021
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Researcher Earns $2 Million for Critical Vulnerability in Polygon
Security researcher Gerhard Wagner earned a $2 million bug bounty reward for a critical vulnerability in Polygon’s Plasma Bridge that could have allowed a malicious
October 25, 2021
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Facebook Sues Ukrainian for Scraping, Selling Data of 178 Million Users
Facebook last week filed a lawsuit against a Ukrainian national who allegedly scraped the information of 178 million of its users and then sold the
October 25, 2021
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Microsoft Warns of Continued Supply-Chain Attacks by the Nobelium Hacker Group
Nobelium, the threat actor behind the SolarWinds compromise in December 2020, has been behind a new wave of attacks that compromised 14 downstream customers of
October 25, 2021
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Hackers Exploited Popular BillQuick Billing Software to Deploy Ransomware
Cybersecurity researchers on Friday disclosed a now-patched critical vulnerability in multiple versions of a time and billing system called BillQuick that’s being actively exploited by
October 25, 2021
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NYT Journalist Repeatedly Hacked with Pegasus after Reporting on Saudi Arabia
The iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware tool over a three-year period stretching between June
October 25, 2021
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Popular NPM Package Hijacked to Publish Crypto-mining Malware
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Friday warned of crypto-mining malware embedded in “UAParser.js,” a popular JavaScript NPM library with over 6 million
October 24, 2021
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