Cyber Security

Nowadays, everything happens online. We might not be aware of the exposure to hacker attacks, collecting personal data, and malware. Keep in mind that every action online can be used to tell sites about your habits and preferences. And let’s not forget about leaking passwords and data breaches. Protecting your…

Phishing is the act of placing a piece of bait in front of an unsuspecting computer user and hoping that they will bite – it’s been the bane of antivirus companies for a long time now. Just like someone fishing uses bait on a hook to try to land a salmon, a…

You spot a tantalizing headline and begin to read a few lines of what promises to be a juicy online article. To finish reading the story, you have to click on a link. This is an example of clickbait, web content that’s been specifically designed to generate advertising revenue. The headlines…

A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google’s AdSense program. In this scam, the fraudsters demand bitcoin in exchange for a promise not to flood the publisher’s ads with so much bot and junk traffic that Google’s automated anti-fraud systems suspend…

There have been almost 500 documented geopolitical cyber attacks around the world since 2009. Making cyberwarfare a major technological threat to nations and their citizens. In this article, we hope to break down some of the numbers and gain insight into the nature of these attacks, where they originate from,…

Many security-conscious people probably think they’d never fall for a phone-based phishing scam. But if your response to such a scam involves anything other than hanging up and calling back the entity that claims to be calling, you may be in for a rude awakening. Here’s how one security and…

A leading accounting firm in Canada forced a company-wide shutdown of their systems after getting hit with a cyberattack last weekend, BleepingComputer has learned. Canadian accounting firm MNP’s systems were impacted last weekend in what BleepingComputer was told was a ransomware attack. MNP employees have told BleepingComputer that accountants were sent…

A federal judge in Atlanta has given final approval to a settlement that resolves a class action lawsuit against credit bureau Equifax, which in 2017 suffered one of the largest data breaches in history. The final approval order The deal is essentially the same as the final version of a…

The surge in ransomware attacks on cities, municipalities, schools, and healthcare organizations this year is just a foretaste of what is likely come in 2020. Threat actors have sensed a very real opportunity to make big returns attacking enterprise organizations using ransomware and are refining their tools and techniques to…

An open Elasticsearch server has exposed the rich profiles of more than 1.2 billion people to the open internet. First found on October 16 by researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia, the database contains more than 4 terabytes of data. It consists of scraped information from social media sources like…