Hacking the Hackers
Hacking The Hackers—How 18,000 Cybercrime Wannabes Fell Victim There is no shortage of hacking stories right now, from how the speed of hacking is getting ever faster, to the use…
New FBI Warning—Disable Local Admin Accounts As Attacks Continue
Hackers use many methods to steal your data, from cybercrime AI-chatbots, two-factor authentication bypass attacks, and even novel don’t click twice hacks. They also, however, attack after gaining employment with…
Introducing GhostGPT—The New Cybercrime AI Used By Hackers
The security threat driven by advances in AI is hardly new news: be it billions of Gmail users, bank customers, or attacks against individuals by way of smartphone calls and…
FBI Warning— Use Secret Word For Android, iPhone: Should You Listen?
As 2024 draws to a close, is the mobile cybersecurity advice we have been getting from the likes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency worth listening…
Microsoft says state-sponsored Russian hacking group accessed email accounts of senior leaders.
Russian hacking group accessed some of Microsoft’s senior leaders’ email accounts on January 12, 2024, security experts announced. Russian hacking group accessed some email accounts of Microsoft senior leaders, the…
What is a warrant canary?
A warrant canary is a public statement describing an action that a service provider has not done; the statement is removed if the service provider gets a legal order to…
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.…
FBI: Compromised US academic credentials available on various cybercrime forums
The FBI warns organizations in the higher education sector of credentials sold on cybercrime forums that can allow threat actors to access their networks. The FBI issued an alert to…
Are spy agencies ready for open-source intelligence?
Competition brings improvement, and the intelligence community is facing no shortage of competition. As the Russia-Ukraine war and its troop movements provide a proving ground for open-source intelligence (OSINT) —…
Edward Snowden warns weakening encryption would have dire consequences: ‘Privacy is power.’
LONDON — Undermining encryption systems to give governments access to people’s personal messages would be a “colossal mistake” with fatal consequences, former U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned. “Privacy is…