Security News
What information is being collected online? Who's collecting it? Who should be held responsible for protecting our privacy? And how do we better protect it? A survey conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of NortonLifeLock delved into those questions and more. The survey of more than 10,000 adults in the US and nine other countries found that more than two-thirds are more alarmed than ever about their online privacy.
Cybersecurity company Indusface that holds expertise in keeping applications over the internet secure has decided to step up and do our bit to the society. During this unprecedented time, Indusface has announced to support organizations affected by COVID-19 by offering professional cybersecurity protection to their online businesses at free of cost for at least a month.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are using artificial intelligence to develop an early warning system that will identify manipulated images, deepfake videos and disinformation online. The scalable, automated system uses content-based image retrieval and applies computer vision-based techniques to root out political memes from multiple social networks.
The survey reported a 347% increase in account takeover and 391% rise in shipping fraud attempts globally against its online retail customers from 2018 to 2019. "With so many reported data breaches, it's not just about if your account will be hijacked, it's about when," said Melissa Gaddis, senior director of customer success for TransUnion Fraud & Identity Solutions.
Integrate your disconnected products and management if you want to survive Webcast In a recent survey, nine out of 10 organisations that suffered a significant security attack were running...
Have you secured your streaming services' accounts? Are you sure someone else, unbeknown to you, isn't using them as well? He also posits that, despite cybercriminals having been compromising users' streaming services' accounts for ages, they will now likely increase their efforts.
British police are saying coronavirus-related fraud reports have spiked by 400 per cent over the past six weeks as the COVID-19 illness continues its inexorable march through humanity. Although absolute numbers of reports are low, perhaps kept that way because the public now knows Action Fraud is largely useless, the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau said there were a total of 200 reports of coronavirus scams made to them since 1 February.
Online payment fraud attempts increased by 73 percent in 2019, according to a report from Sift. Additional findings in the report reveal that cybercriminals are using mobile devices more than desktops or laptops to commit payment fraud.
The Democratic National Committee has warned its presidential candidates to be cautious after Bernie Sanders' campaign reported that an "Impersonator" with a domain registered overseas had posed as one of its staffers and sought conversations with members of at least two other campaigns. Bob Lord, the DNC's chief security officer, wrote in an email to his party's presidential campaigns on Wednesday that "Adversaries will often try to impersonate real people on a campaign" to get people to "Download suspicious files, or click on a link to a phishing site." Lord said attackers may also try to set up a call or in-person meeting that they can record and publish.
The leak came from an S3 bucket that was left unsecured. The unsecured S3 bucket appeared to be powering Rotherwood's internal system, a CRM-style software suite that looks to be used to capture and store essential data about staff and patients alike.