THE LATEST CYBERSECURITY NEWS & DEVELOPMENTS, PRESENTED BY CFC UNDERWRITING
Is your friendly Amazon Echo serving your every whim and need – or is it spying on you? A British researcher has found a simple way of using malware and an SD card to convert an innocent speaker into a secret bugging device. In a time where voice-activated digital assistants… Read more »
Hot on the heels of one of the largest pay-outs in data breach history (a cool $115m to cover the credit monitoring of some 79 million individuals), Anthem Inc – the number one provider of health insurance in America – has admitted to another haemorrhage of sensitive information on over… Read more »
To coincide with Def Con and Black Hat, cybersecurity’s two biggest events, the BBC has been scrutinising the world of internet crime – in particular how easy it is to become a cyber criminal. The dramatic growth in ransomware is attributed to the ready availability, from a run-of-the-mill search engine,… Read more »
Troy Hunt is an Australian web security expert and creator of the ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ website that allows internet users to check if their personal data has been breached. In his latest blog post he pulls together information from a number of sources to give a fascinating and very… Read more »
Information security specialist Omer Gil has come up with an ingenious method of conning a web server into exposing personal data through a caching attack. Any sites that use content delivery network (CDN) services are vulnerable to this new threat. Gil’s idea, showcased at Black Hat Conference, demonstrates how an… Read more »
There is good news for anyone who imagines that ransomware heralds the end of civilisation as we know it. (White) Hats off to Italian researcher Andrea Continelli and his team who have devised a means of automatically spotting ransomware before it can run amok. The new system, which goes by… Read more »
There was a time long, long ago when a social media giant called MySpace roamed the earth like a colossus. But then along came a bigger beast called Facebook and everyone seemed to forget about MySpace. Maybe that’s just as well as, in terms of security, MySpace (which is now… Read more »
In response to a number of recent phishing attacks, Google is beefing up its defences by unveiling a new ‘unverified app’ screen that instructs users and developers to tread carefully. This will replace the current ’error’ page that warns against opening dodgy apps and attachments. While users are still at… Read more »
Purveyors of ransomware have, until now, tended to adopt a shotgun approach; spraying malicious code across as wide a field (aka the Internet) as possible in the hope that some of it will hit a victim. It now appears that they have switched their weapon of choice to a sniper… Read more »
Webinar software is an attractive target for hackers – it’s widely used and trusted by businesses and individuals around the world, some of whom may not be as cyber aware as they could be. In many cases, the launching of a webinar app requires the download of a file onto… Read more »