Adobe Releases Patches for ‘Likely Exploitable’ Critical Vulnerabilities
The last Patch Tuesday of 2019 is finally here. Adobe today released updates for four of its widely used software—including Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Photoshop...
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The 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey Results
The 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey was an online survey published in The Hacker News and created to provide insight into the details related to cybersecurity...
Sophos Uncovers New Version of Snatch Ransomware
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published an investigative report, Snatch Ransomware Reboots PCs into Safe Mode to Bypass Protection, by SophosLabs and Sophos Managed Threat Response....
Heist for bytes – Cybersecurity in financial services 2019
Cybersecurity’s impact on financial services 2019 has been a banner year for cybersecurity incidents, with hackers targeting various state and local governments as well as...
Nearly two in five Irish adults have not updated their main password in the last 12 months
Nearly two in five Irish adults (39 per cent) haven’t updated their main password in the last 12 months, according to new research. The research,...
New Linux Bug Lets Attackers Hijack Encrypted VPN Connections
A team of cybersecurity researchers has disclosed a new severe vulnerability affecting most Linux and Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, iOS, and Android,...
Facebook Sued Chinese Firm for Hacking its Users and Running Fraud Ads
Following its efforts to take legal action against those misusing its social media platform, Facebook has now filed a new lawsuit against a Hong Kong-based...
Severe Auth Bypass and Priv-Esc Vulnerabilities Disclosed in OpenBSD
OpenBSD, an open-source operating system built with security in mind, has been found vulnerable to four new high-severity security vulnerabilities, one of which is an...
New Iranian Data Wiper Malware Targeting Energy Sector
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new, previously undiscovered destructive data-wiping malware that is being used by state-sponsored hackers in the wild to target energy and...
Critical Flaw in GoAhead Web Server Could Affect Wide Range of IoT Devices
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered details of two new vulnerabilities in the GoAhead web server software, a tiny application widely embedded in hundreds of millions of...
Europol Shuts Down Over 30,500 Piracy Websites in Global Operation
In a coordinated global law enforcement operation, Europol has taken down more than 30,500 websites for distributing counterfeit and pirated items over the Internet and...
Top 5 Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Predictions for 2020
We distilled 30 independent reports dedicated to cybersecurity and cybercrime predictions for 2020 and compiled the top 5 most interesting findings and projections in this...
New Facebook Tool Let Users Transfer Their Photos and Videos to Google
Facebook has finally started implementing the open source data portability framework as the first phase of ‘Data Transfer Project,’ an initiative the company launched last...
Europol Shuts Down ‘Imminent Monitor’ RAT Operations With 13 Arrests
In a coordinated International law enforcement operation, Europol today announced to shut down the global organized cybercrime network behind Imminent Monitor RAT, yet another hacking...
Targeting the Oppressed An Overlooked Aspect of Cyberattacks
Image source: Pixabay, an interesting guest post highlighting the impact of cyberattacks on oppressed groups. This August, Google’s Project Zero reported the discovery of a...