The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Israeli Ministry of Finance have announced a new partnership to combat ransomware. The joint task force announced on Sunday will include a “memorandum of understanding” for sharing information about the financial sector, as well as cybersecurity regulations and other threat intelligence. “HarnessingContinue Reading
AT&T and Verizon agreed to delay the expansion of a new C-band spectrum of 5G for about a month so they can work with the Federal Aviation Administration to address concerns about potential interference with critical cockpit safety systems. The Federal Aviation Administration has expressed concerns about how this newContinue Reading
Cellebrite became broadly known in 2016 after an offer to hack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone for the FBI. They are one of a handful of companies that make universal forensic extraction devices to access encrypted data on cell phones. These sorts of tools are used by government agencies aroundContinue Reading
Today the cybersecurity firm FireEye disclosed that they were the victim of a sophisticated hack. The hackers accessed FireEye’s internal network and seem to have stolen hacking tools FireEye uses to text client’s networks. In a disclosure published on the FireEye website, CEO Kevin Mandia said a “highly sophisticated threat actor”Continue Reading
Microsoft said yesterday it detected at least seven attacks on companies developing COVID-19 vaccines or treatments. The company said these attacks involved three nation-state actors; a Russian group known as “Fancy Bear” (Microsoft calls them Strontium) and North Korean groups called “Zinc” (known as the Lazarus Group) and “Cerium”. Microsoft saidContinue Reading
Let’s Encrypt, the free SSL certificate provider used by over 100 Million websites including this one announced that a root certificate its service uses, provided by IdenTrust, is set to expire on September 1, 2021. The non-profit certificate authority is ready for the expiration and will use its own root certificateContinue Reading
In our current contactless society, QR codes are having a day in the sun. Many restaurants are now letting customers scan QR codes at the table to access digital menus. Some restaurant owners say digital menus may be around long past the current pandemic. But as QR codes are gaining wider adoption,Continue Reading
The privacy-focused web browser, Brave announced it has grown by over 130% over its first year of its stable version. Brave now boasts 20 million monthly users, this time last year, the browser had 8.7 million active monthly users. Brave attributes the growth to increasing privacy concerns held by manyContinue Reading
A report by Check Point Research, says a well known botnet and malware agent is engaging in a massive sextortion campaign. The researchers say this botnet is acting as a spambot to target innocent recipients. The makers of the Phorpiex botnet also called Trik seem to have added a newContinue Reading
The Justice Department says it has taken down one of the largest child porn sites on the dark web. Working with partners in the U.K., and South Korea, U.S. federal prosecutors filed multiple charges against Jong Woo Son a 23-year-old South Korean man who is accused of running the website.Continue Reading