Security News > 2024 > February
First-person account of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. If you think it couldn't happen to you, think again.
With SaaS applications now making up the vast majority of technology used by employees in most organizations, tasks related to identity governance need to happen across a myriad of individual SaaS...
Facebook advertisers in Vietnam are the target of a previously unknown information stealer dubbed VietCredCare at least since August 2022. The malware is “notable for its ability to automatically...
On Thanksgiving Day 2023, while many Americans were celebrating, hospitals across the U.S. were doing quite the opposite. Systems were failing. Ambulances were diverted. Care was impaired....
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Identity-related threats pose an increasing risk to those protecting networks because attackers - ranging from financially motivated crime gangs and nation-state backed crews - increasingly prefer to log in using stolen credentials instead of exploiting vulnerabilities or social engineering. In two separate reports published on Wednesday, IBM X-Force and security biz CrowdStrike found a huge surge in cyber attacks using valid credentials and other techniques spoofing legitimate users.
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation has led European firms to store and process less data, recent economic research suggests, because the privacy rules are making data more costly to manage. The consequence of Europe's privacy regime, according to the researchers, is that "EU firms decreased data storage by 26 percent and data processing by 15 percent relative to comparable US firms, becoming less 'data-intensive.'".
End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app Signal said it’s piloting a new feature that allows users to create unique usernames (not to be confused with profile names) and keep the phone numbers...
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new influence operation targeting Ukraine that leverages spam emails to propagate war-related disinformation. The activity has been linked to...
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