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The U.S Department of Health and Human Services was the victim of a cyberattack on Sunday as the federal government attempts to deal with the coronavirus crisis, according to a report from Bloomberg. "The U.S. Health & Human Services fell victim to a Distributed Denial of Service attack yesterday when several endpoints controlled by a nation-state attacked their networks," Stephen Boyce, principal consultant at risk management and digital forensics firm Crypsis Group, said.
A UK inquiry into child sexual abuse facilitated by the internet has recommended that the government require apps to pre-screen images before publishing them, in order to tackle "An explosion" in images of child sex abuse. The imagery isn't only "Depraved"; it's also easy to get to, the inquiry said, referring to research from the National Crime Agency that found that you can find child exploitation images within three clicks when using mainstream search engines.
Unfortunatly cloths washing is very water and energy consuming Even very small load portable/camping washing machines need around 20-30kg of water and 46watt hours of energy peaking at 250-300watts. So 140-210kg of water a week unless you recycle the water.
In its 2020 Global Threat Report, CrowdStrike found that bad actors are disabling endpoint protection and compromising WordPress sites to steal data and credentials. CrowdStrike's eport includes a threat landscape overview, ransomware threat assessment, e-crime trends and activity, and an update on intrusions from Iran, North Korea, China, Russia and other countries.
When entire regions are quarantined, home-bound people are overloading local switches, reducing international call quality and interrupting connectivity. This is having a measurable, negative impact on the audio quality of international calls and could be a harbinger of things to come.
Hal Lonas of OpenText Shares Cybersecurity PredictionsWebroot just released its 2020 Threat Report. How has the landscape changed, and what cybersecurity predictions are made for 2020? Hal Lonas...
The Federal Communications Commission Friday proposed fines against the nation's four largest wireless carriers for selling real-time mobile phone location data without taking reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to that information. In Friday statement, Paj said: "The FCC has long had clear rules on the books requiring all phone companies to protect their customers' personal information. And since 2007, these companies have been on notice that they must take reasonable precautions to safeguard this data and that the FCC will take strong enforcement action if they don't. Today, we do just that. This FCC will not tolerate phone companies putting Americans' privacy at risk."
The number of stalkerware attacks on mobile devices increased 50 percent over the last year, showing an upward and continued trend in the emerging threat, researchers said. "Attacks involving the use of mobile stalkerware became more frequent, the purpose being to monitor and collect information about the victim," Victor Chebyshev, a research development team lead at Kaspersky, wrote in a post on the company's SecureList blog outlining trends in mobile malware in 2019.At the same time, stalkerware-a threat that appeared on security researchers' radar in only the last couple of years-also began to show signs of " keeping pace with its malware cousins" in terms of sophistication, he said.
While an earlier report from security firm Cybereason found that Raccoon enabled credential stealing from Tor-hosted devices, the new analysis by CyberArk shows that the infostealer has now expanded its reach into popular web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and others. "What used to be reserved for more sophisticated attackers is now possible even for novice players who can buy stealers like Raccoon and use them to get their hands on an organization's sensitive data," the report states.
Facebook recently investigated suspicious content meant to support U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders but was unable to substantiate involvement by Russians or supporters of President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Last week, The Washington Post reported that U.S. officials had told Sanders that Russia was trying to support his campaign.