On Wednesday the FBI published a public service announcement warning that high-impact ransomware attacks are threatening U.S. businesses and organizations. The PSA covers the basics of what ransomware is and how it infects its victims. Of note, but not surprise, is the FBI’s advice to victims of ransomware attacks notContinue Reading
Three hospitals in Alabama run by a nonprofit firm called DCH Health System closed to all but critical patients yesterday. This due to a crippling ransomware attack. In a statement today DCH said, “A criminal is limiting our ability to use our computer systems in exchange for an as-yet unknown payment,” adding “OurContinue Reading
Zendesk has disclosed a security breach impacting some customers who registered with the service prior to November 1, 2016. The customer service software company says a hacker accessed personal information of approximately 10,000 customers that had Zendesk Support and Chat accounts. The company said it discovered the breach on SeptemberContinue Reading
A former Yahoo engineer pleaded guilty to accessing accounts of around 6,000 Yahoo users and searching for sexy photos and videos. The Justice Department released details of the case that sounds like a script for Black Mirror. Reyes Daniel Ruiz the former Yahoo employee, admitted to using his employee access to hackContinue Reading
BlackBerry has set up a research lab focusing on cybersecurity research. The company said the BlackBerry Labs unit led by CTO Charles Eagan will include over 120 software architects, developers, researchers, product leads and security experts. The group will work to identify, explore and create new technologies to “ensure BlackBerry isContinue Reading
German police have arrested seven people resulting from a raid of an illegal data center housed within a former NATO military bunker. That NATO bunker was used as a server room and was hosting a large number of “dark web” sites that promoted illegal content. The raid that occured inContinue Reading
A security researcher going by the handle “axi0mX” has discovered a supposedly unpatchable iOS vulnerability affecting six generations of Apple devices. The anonymous researcher published code demonstrating the flaw on GitHub earlier today, and within a few hours, others in the cybersecurity community appear to have verified that the exploit works. The vulnerability isContinue Reading
A report by Buzzfeed News published today says that Google quietly removed 46 apps by iHandy from the Play Store last week. iHandy is a Chinese mobile app developer, that makes selfie, security, antivirus, keyboard, horoscope, emoji, coin flip, health, and utility apps. Collectively the developers apps have been downloaded tens ofContinue Reading
Microsoft said in an advisory that a remote code execution vulnerability exists in some versions of Internet Explorer. Users could be unknowingly infected. The advisory reads in part “In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit the vulnerability through Internet Explorer andContinue Reading
Google today announced a series of privacy focused changes that will soon come to Google Assistant. The goal is to address recent concerns about how the company was processing data of users of that service. In the past Google used contractors to listen to portions of customers’ conversations with their voiceContinue Reading