Pensacola confirms ransomware attack
Pensacola
officials confirmed that an ongoing
cyberattack that began early Saturday morning is a ransomware attack.
While the city did not release any additional details, the Pensacola News Journal said city spokeswoman Kaycee Lagarde confirmed the attack included a ransom, something that...
Real-time phishing alerts and stolen password warnings added to Chrome
Google yesterday announced that its latest Chrome release adds real-time phishing alerts and password breach warning capabilities to the browser.
The real-time anti-phishing capabilities represents an upgrade to Google’s Safe Browsing service, which compiles an ever-changing blacklist of dangerous websites...
Unsecured storage bucket exposes applications for birth certificate copies
A leaky Amazon Web Services storage bucket has exposed more than 752,000 applications requesting copies of birth certificates.
A report yesterday by TechCrunch said the unsecured data set dates back to late 2017, but was just recently discovered by U.K.-based...
Patch Tuesday: Adobe announces 25 bug fixes, 21 in Acrobat products
On the last Patch Tuesday of 2019, Adobe today released security updates for Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, Photoshop CC, Brackets and ColdFusion, fixing 25 critical and important vulnerabilities in the process.
Twenty-one of the flaws were found in various Acrobat...
Microsoft fixes exploited privilege elevation flaw, 34 more bugs
For its final Patch Tuesday release of the year, Microsoft Corporation issued a series of security updates that fixed a total of 35 vulnerabilities, seven of which were deemed critical and one of which was found to be actively...
It’s past time to contain identity sprawl. Here’s how to do it.
Identity
sprawl – too many usernames and too many passwords – has never been as big a
concern as it is today: More devices are being brought into the enterprise,
more people are working remotely and using their own devices, and more...
Devin Nunes’ cow Twitter account owner should remain anonymous, ACLU says
The person behind the “Devin Nunes’ cow” Twitter account should remain anonymous, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asserted in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in response to a defamation lawsuit brought by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
While Nunes has offered...
Failure to secure IoT networks has far-reaching consequences, and transportation is a bullseye target
In
2017, millions of moviegoers flocked to theaters for the eighth Fast and Furious movie, where they
watched a villainous Charlize Theron take control of hundreds of self-driving
cars. Whether they knew it or not, this was many viewers’ first exposure to...
IG report says FBI justified in starting Russia probe, Barr disagrees
No sooner had Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz
released his much-anticipated report on the
origins of the Russia probe, finding as expected
that the FBI was justified in beginning an investigation of the Trump campaign,
than Attorney General William Barr put out...
Pensacola hit with cyberattack hours after shooting at naval base
Less than a day after a Saudi airman shot and killed three members of the U.S. military at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, a cyberattack has forced the Florida city to shut down many of its systems, with the...
20 VPS providers shut down, leave customers scrambling, crying foul
Two days after alerting customers in the wake of what some believed might have been a cyberattack, at least 20 web hosting providers have shut their doors and plan to wipe their servers.
The providers, which include ArkaHosting, Bigfoot...
Reputed Vietnamese APT group hacks BMW, Hyundai: report
The reputed Vietnamese APT group OceanLotus is believed responsible for recently hacking into the networks of German car manufacturer BMW, as well as South Korea’s Hyundai, presumably to spy on their automotive trade secrets.
German broadcaster Bayerricscher Rundfunk, which broke...
Report: Dental practices feel the pain of ransomware attack on IT provider
More than 100 dentist offices have reportedly been affected by a recent Sodinokibi ransomware attack on a Colorado-based company that provides IT services to the oral-care practices.
Security expert Brian Krebs reported this past weekend via his blog post that...
Apple says ultra wideband tech culprit behind location data sharing; to issue fix
If what happens on your iPhone doesn’t stay
on your iPhone after all, ultra wideband (UWB) technology is the culprit,
according to Apple.
After the Apple iPhone 11 Pro was discovered
to still be sending out user location data even after Location...
My kingdom for a decryptor! Ransomware creates ticketing snafu for N.J. Shakespeare theater
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey was forced to cancel a performance of “A Christmas Carol” earlier this week after a ransomware attack disrupted its database and ticketing system, causing a show reservations nightmare.
Performances of the show, which run...
Pensacola confirms ransomware attack
Pensacola
officials confirmed that an ongoing
cyberattack that began early Saturday morning is a ransomware attack.
While the city did not release any additional details, the Pensacola News Journal said city spokeswoman Kaycee Lagarde confirmed the attack included a ransom, something that...
Trickbot Operators Now Selling Attack Tools to APT Actors
North Korea's Lazarus Group - of Sony breach and WannaCry fame - is among the first customers.
The Great $50M African IP Address Heist
A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions...
Intel Issues Fix for ‘Plundervolt’ SGX Flaw
Researchers were able to extract AES encryption key using SGX's voltage-tuning function.
How to stop spam calls right now
Spam calls drive us all crazy. Here are four ways to stop robocalls and other unsolicited phone calls.
