Security News > 2020 > October
Teaching students around the world has become easier, thanks to Zoom classes, one college professor says. She's still trying to find a way to teach robotics, though.
This week we also learned that the ThunderX ransomware was part of Ako Ransomware, who renamed their operation Ranzy Locker. City of Mt. Pleasant falls victim to remote ransomware attack The City of Mt. Pleasant has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, that is according to city officials.
A data set of millions of payment card records apparently stolen from US-based restaurant franchise Dickey's Barbecue Pit has emerged on a Dark Web marketplace, Gemini Advisory reports. There are 469 locations across 42 states that are operating under the Dickey's Barbecue Pit franchise, each of them allowed to use the type of point-of-sale device they like, as well as their preferred processors.
Cybercriminals cashed in on the surge of COVID-19 earlier this year, with email lures purporting to be from healthcare professionals offering more information about the pandemic. As the year moves forward, bad actors are continuing to swap up their attacks with savvy lures that match top-of-mind current events, said Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.
TikTok announced this week that it has launched a public bug bounty program in collaboration with HackerOne. It's not uncommon for security researchers to find vulnerabilities in the TikTok app.
Learn how to use Apple's Privacy Report in Safari so you can see which websites attempted to track you on your iPhone or iPad. Cross-site trackers operate by tracking you as you surf from one website to another. By default, the mobile version of Safari on your iPhone and iPad tries to prevent cross-site trackers from following you.
Google delivered over 33,000 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of state-sponsored phishing attacks targeting their accounts. The prominent reminders sent to Google users targeted in government-backed attacks were displayed even when the hacking attempts were blocked to inform them of the danger.
The actor targeted thousands of Google IP addresses at the same time and used several attack methods in a campaign that span across multiple months. Google did not attribute the attack to a particular actor but said that the bad UDP packets hurled at its systems came from devices using several Chinese internet service providers.
If you've had files deleted by a hacker or you've accidentally removed them, Jack Wallen shows you how to recover that missing data with a handy tool called testdisk. Do you know where your deleted files are? If you're on a Linux server, those magically vanished files might be quite the elusive little gremlins.
Dr. David Brumley, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO of ForAllSecure, explains what Fuzzing is and how companies can use it to improve application security and speed up their software development life cycle. Luckily, Dr. David Brumley, one of best in the digital security business, was kind enough to give me a fuzzing 101 lesson not too long ago, and I can share it with you.