Infosecurity News

  1. Instagram Star “Hushpuppi” Faces BEC Charges

    Hundreds of millions laundered from cybercrimes

  2. LORCA Announces Fifth Cyber-Accelerator Cohort

    17 companies to benefit from year-long innovation scheme

  3. Infosecurity Magazine Autumn/Fall Online Summit Agenda – Last Chance to Register!

    Registration is now open for Infosecurity’s two-day virtual event

  4. Home Routers Are All Broken, Finds Security Study

    Of 127 routers tested, all had serious flaws, according to a German study

  5. Purple Fox Exploit Kit Adds Two Microsoft Vulnerabilities

    Exploit kits may be on the decline, but that hasn’t stopped Purple Fox from keeping its game sharp

  6. Account-Snooping Yahoo Engineer Escapes Jail Time

    Man escapes jail time after using his position to snoop on thousands of accounts

  7. Mobile Users Increasingly Targeted by Undeletable Malicious Files

    Adware is often being pre-installed on mobile devices

  8. Volume and Size of Fines for Data Breaches Expected to Rise

    37% of workers expect the number and size of fines for their employers to increase

  9. Flaw Fixed in Hotels.com Generator as Tesco Clubcard Users Impacted

    Weakness exploited in way Hotels.com generates vouchers

  10. Corporate Cybercrime Victims Double in Five Years

    ISP estimates cost to UK economy of £87bn

  11. North Korean Hackers Behind Magecart Attacks

    Sansec claims Pyongyang-sponsored attackers struck Claire’s

  12. Google VP Withdraws from Black Hat 2020 Over its Name

    Heated debate in infosec community after calls for change in terminology

  13. NSA Issues VPN Security Guidance

    Be careful which pre-configured policies you leave on your IPsec VPN, warns the US government

  14. Moose Remain Unaware of Lottery Privacy Breach

    The Nova Scotia moose hunting lottery didn’t go entirely to plan this year

  15. Avaddon Ransomware Still Using Excel 4.0 Macros

    The Avaddon ransomware is using Excel 4.0 macros as an infection vector

  16. Record Number Enrol in Online NCSC CyberFirst Courses

    The NCSC plans to provide a mix of classroom and virtual classes going forward

  17. V Shred Exposes Pics and PII on 100,000 Customers

    Researchers at vpnMentor claim fitness firm misconfigured S3 bucket

  18. GoldenSpy Uninstaller Appears Out of Nowhere

    Backdoor removal asks more questions than it answers

  19. Global Dating App Users Exposed in Multiple Security Snafus

    WizCase researchers find unsecured online databases in US and Asia

  20. Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Apache Remote Desktop Software

    Apache Guacamole is an open source remote access gateway

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