Three Arrested for Hacking Department of Defense Payroll Stealing $15M Three hackers have been indicted in the USA for trying to steal over 15 million dollars by hacking the Department of Defense payroll services. Hackers were alleged to gain access to over 15 different financial institutions. US attorneys at a New Jersey hearing have sentenced the three hackers, Oleksiy […]
PPI ( Payment Protection Insurance ) has been a hot potato in the UK for some years. There has long been widespread concern that the insurance, frequently added on to loans, mortgages and overdrafts, was frequently sold in circumstances inappropriate to the needs of the customer, while offering disproportionately large benefits to the lender/insurance provider (especially banks). In consequence, there […]
It’s not only the tech sector that’s talking about cybersecurity. The cybersecurity industry has been advocating for awareness training for the better part of the last decade, and since the Equifax breach, security has gone mainstream . With its new popularity, cybersecurity has evolved into a hot political issue as well. One result of the attention is increased regulations, which […]
Researchers have found some serious vulnerabilities in 5G network slicing and virtualization technology. Exploiting these vulnerabilities poses risks of data theft, location exposure, and even DoS attacks. AdaptiveMobile Security has shared a detailed white paper highlighting the vulnerabilities in 5G network slicing. Specifically, they have discovered three different vulnerabilities that affect the way 5G uses OAuth for network slicing. Briefly, […]
Россия вошла в список десяти стран мира с самой высокой степенью кибербезопасности. Об этом говорится в докладе ООН Global Cybersecurity Index 2017 . Россия заняла 10-е место в способности противостоять киберугрозам. Единственной страной, которая отвечает всем критериям защищенности от хакерских атак, в докладе назван Сингапур. В топ-10 кроме Сингапура также вошли США (2-е место), Малайзия (3-е место), Оман (4-е […]
The cybersecurity authorities of the U.S. Cyber command have recently been notified regarding the increase in the number of scans and attempts to exploit a newly identified vulnerability in corporate servers along with the Atlassian Confluence wiki engine installed. CVE-2021-26084 in Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center software is the vulnerability that has been confirmed by security experts. This vulnerability […]
Researchers have identified over 250 iOS apps violating Apple’s App Store privacy policy, a policy that forbids developers from gathering personal information on device owners such as email addresses, installed apps, serial numbers among other personally identifiable information that can be used to track smartphone owners. The 256 apps researchers most recently uncovered exposes a critical weakness in Apple’s […]
В США зафиксировали самую мощную хакерскую атаку за всю историю Сети. «Жертвой» стал сервис GitHub, предоставляющий хостинг для IT-проектов. Пиковая мощность атаки составляла 1,35 терабита в секунду. Предыдущий рекорд был зафиксирован в 2016 году. Тогда был атакован сервис Dyn, мощность атаки составила 1,2 терабита в секунду, передает «Газета.ру» со ссылкой на зарубежные СМИ. Отмечается, что в результате инцидента сервис был недоступен на протяжении десяти минут. Отразить атаку сервису GitHub помогла […]
The flaw was discovered three months ago, but Apple has not attempted to fix it yet. It affects the QR code reading part of the camera. Just some several days ago, security researchers discovered a group of malware contaminated QR reader apps on the Play Store . The apps were reportedly downloaded at least 500,000 times. And now it seems […]
Компания Microsoft обвинила русских хакеров во взломе программного кода SolarWinds. Об этом 1 января сообщил телеканал RT . «Как показало расследование Microsoft кибератаки на компанию SolarWinds, хакеры смогли получить доступ к исходному коду нескольких программ», — говорится в сообщении канала в Telegram. После этого хакеры якобы внедрили вирус в обновление программное обеспечение Orion, которое скачали тысячи клиентов, в том числе […]