Security News

SASE Solutions Fall Short Without Enterprise Browser Extensions, New Report Reveals
2024-03-27 10:56

As SaaS applications dominate the business landscape, organizations need optimized network speed and robust security measures. Many of them have been turning to SASE, a product category that...

US Defense Dept received 50,000 vulnerability reports since 2016
2024-03-19 21:13

The Cyber Crime Center of the U.S. Department of Defense says it has reached the milestone of processing its 50,000th vulnerability report submitted by 5,635 researchers since its inception in November 2016. The federal agency launched its Vulnerability Disclosure Program 7.5 years ago following a bug bounty event called 'Hack-the-Pentagon,' to engage crowd-sourced vulnerability reports that could help bolster its cyber defenses.

Capita says 2023 cyberattack costs a factor as it reports staggering £100M+ loss
2024-03-06 12:31

Outsourcing giant Capita today reported a net loss of £106.6 million for calendar 2023, with the costly cyberattack by criminals making a hefty dent in its annual financials.As a result, newly minted Capita CEO Adolfo Hernandez announced further cost cuts for the coming year that aim to save the business an additional £100 million by mid-2025.

CrowdStrike 2024 Global Threat Report: 6 Key Takeaways
2024-02-26 16:48

Supply chain attacks are often used, as those attacks allow a threat actor to hit multiple targets easily. No matter the motivation for a cybersecurity attack, identity-based and social engineering attacks are still taking center stage.

New Report Reveals North Korean Hackers Targeting Defense Firms Worldwide
2024-02-20 10:53

The North Korean state-sponsored threat actors have been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign targeting the defense sector across the world. In a joint advisory published by Germany's Federal...

FCC orders telecom carriers to report PII data breaches within 30 days
2024-02-12 21:50

Starting March 13th, telecommunications companies must report data breaches impacting customers' personally identifiable information within 30 days, as required by FCC's updated data breach reporting requirements."Without an FCC rule requiring breach notifications for the above categories of PII, there would be no requirement in Federal law that telecommunications carriers report non-CPNI breaches to their customers," the FCC said.

Faction: Open-source pentesting report generation and collaboration framework
2024-01-30 05:30

Faction is an open-source solution that enables pentesting report generation and assessment collaboration. Josh Summitt, the creator of Faction, has always disliked the process of writing reports, preferring to focus on uncovering bugs.

23andMe data breach: Hackers stole raw genotype data, health reports
2024-01-25 22:05

Genetic testing provider 23andMe confirmed that hackers stole health reports and raw genotype data of customers affected by a credential stuffing attack that went unnoticed for five months, from April 29 to September 27. The credentials used by the attackers to breach the customers' accounts were stolen in other data breaches or used on previously compromised online platforms.

ESET Threat Report: ChatGPT Name Abuses, Lumma Stealer Malware Increases, Android SpinOk SDK Spyware’s Prevalence
2023-12-22 22:47

Cybersecurity company ESET released its H2 2023 threat report, and we're highlighting three particularly interesting topics in it: the abuse of the ChatGPT name by cybercriminals, the rise of the Lumma Stealer malware and the Android SpinOk SDK spyware. In the second half of 2023, ESET has blocked 650,000 attempts to access malicious domains whose names include "Chatgpt" or similar string in an apparent reference to the ChatGPT chatbot.

Ubisoft says it's investigating reports of a new security breach
2023-12-22 18:10

Ubisoft is investigating whether it suffered a breach after images of the company's internal software and developer tools were leaked online. Ubisoft is a French video game publisher known for well-known titles, including Assassin's Creed, FarCry, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, and the new Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.