CyberSecurity Blog

ICYMI: Your domain name is your website’s handshake, its first hello to online visitors. It is like your digital calling card, letting people locate you in the digital world to learn about your …http://dlvr.it/StQtMm

Move Comes as Russia Allows a Law Permitting Access to Taxi User Data Data protection agencies in Finland and Norway on Tuesday imposed a temporary data transfer ban on Russian ride-hailing app Yango over concerns that Moscow could access sensitive data of Europeans. The ban comes before a Russian law granting the FSB access to…
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New Tools to Rapidly Find and Fix Flaws Are the Focus of DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge The White House has launched an Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge, backed by DARPA and offering nearly $20 million in prizes, to develop a new generation of tools that can rapidly find and fix software vulnerabilities in both commercial and…
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WormGPT, a private new chatbot service advertised as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to write malicious software without all the pesky prohibitions on such activity enforced by the likes of ChatGPT and Google Bard, has started adding restrictions of its own on how the service can be used. Faced with customers trying to…
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ICYMI: Scammers Used Malware and Spoofed Domain Name to Trick UK Financial Services Firm A Nigerian national has pleaded guilty to participating in a business email compromise scheme that stole $1.25 million from a Boston investment firm. Perpetrators used malware to intercept an employee’s emails as well as spoofed email accounts to trick the employee’s…
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ICYMI: Ransomware is malware that accesses your network and locks you out of your system. It steals important data and files, locks them, and demands payment in exchange. Preventing and detecting ransomware attacks …http://dlvr.it/StNJGl

ICYMI: Cybercrime Group Defrauded Nearly 200,000 Euros Spanish police estimate that a group that mainly targeted ATMs of Spanish national banks using cloned payment cards had fraudulently pocketed nearly 196,000 euros. Authorities arrested three members of the group Sunday in the Spanish coastal city of Valencia.http://dlvr.it/StN1pp

ICYMI: Information From 2004 to 2020 Exposed for High School Students, Teachers and Others Colorado’s Department of Higher Education is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack in June, in which attackers stole personal data on current and past students and teachers, dating from 2004 to 2020. While the state has yet to wrap its…
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ICYMI: Educators Gird For Fresh Ransomware Attacks as Students Set to Return to School The Biden administration says it wants to get ahead of ransomware attacks against schools before K-12 education soon resumes for the fall. “We must take cyberattacks on our schools just seriously as we take physical attacks on critical infrastructure,” said Cindy…
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Vulnerability Could Allow Attackers to Read, Delete or Upload Arbitrary Files A recently identified security vulnerability in PaperCut print management software holds the potential for high-severity outcomes and could let unauthorized hackers run code remotely. The software is used in a wide array of environments, including large printer fleets supporting over 100,000 users.http://dlvr.it/StKh3L