Nvidia touts a slower chip for China to avoid US ban
Two months after the U.S. choked off China’s access to two of Nvidia’s high-end microchips, the American semiconductor design giant unveiled a substitute with a reduced processing speed for its…
US Airports’ sites taken down in DDoS attacks by Pro-Russian Hackers
The pro-Russian hacktivist group ‘KillNet’ is claiming large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the websites of several major airports in the U.S., making them inaccessible. The DDoS attacks have overwhelmed…
Ransomware attack delays patient care at hospitals across the U.S.
CHI Memorial Hospital in Tennessee, some St. Luke’s hospitals in Texas, and Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Seattle have announced they were affected. One of the largest hospital chains in…
The Uber Data Breach Conviction Shows Security Execs What Not to Do
UBER’S FORMER CHIEF Security Officer (CSO), Joe Sullivan, was found guilty this week of actively hiding a data breach from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and concealing a felony.…
Hackers Can Use ‘App Mode’ in Chromium Browsers for Stealth Phishing Attacks
In what’s a new phishing technique, it has been demonstrated that the Application Mode feature in Chromium-based web browsers can be abused to create “realistic desktop phishing applications.” Application Mode…
Cristy Davis Powerball Donation Lottery Scam
A “Cristy Davis ” Powerball Donation Lottery Scam I Googled this text message / SMS I just received today. Wondering what this was all about, and smelled a scam, and…
Uber Blames LAPSUS$ Hacking Group for Recent Security Breach
On Monday, Uber disclosed more details about the security incident last week, pinning the attack on a threat actor it believes is affiliated with the notorious LAPSUS$ hacking group. “This…
Russian Sandworm Hackers Impersonate Ukrainian Telecoms to Distribute Malware
New findings show that a threat cluster linked to the Russian nation-state actor tracked as Sandworm has continued its targeting of Ukraine with commodity malware by masquerading as telecom providers.…
Common Crypto Scams and How to Avoid Them
Ever heard of rug pulls and pig butchering? Be more intelligent than the scammers and learn how common crypto scams work in detail. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…
Just Open It
“Just open it, you don’t need a password.” What is phishing? Phishing attacks are counterfeit communications that appear to come from a trustworthy source but can compromise all types of…