Infosecurity News
Instagram Star “Hushpuppi” Faces BEC Charges
Hundreds of millions laundered from cybercrimes
LORCA Announces Fifth Cyber-Accelerator Cohort
17 companies to benefit from year-long innovation scheme
Infosecurity Magazine Autumn/Fall Online Summit Agenda – Last Chance to Register!
Registration is now open for Infosecurity’s two-day virtual event
Home Routers Are All Broken, Finds Security Study
Of 127 routers tested, all had serious flaws, according to a German study
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
Account-Snooping Yahoo Engineer Escapes Jail Time
Man escapes jail time after using his position to snoop on thousands of accounts
Mobile Users Increasingly Targeted by Undeletable Malicious Files
Adware is often being pre-installed on mobile devices
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
Flaw Fixed in Hotels.com Generator as Tesco Clubcard Users Impacted
Weakness exploited in way Hotels.com generates vouchers
Corporate Cybercrime Victims Double in Five Years
ISP estimates cost to UK economy of £87bn
North Korean Hackers Behind Magecart Attacks
Sansec claims Pyongyang-sponsored attackers struck Claire’s
Google VP Withdraws from Black Hat 2020 Over its Name
Heated debate in infosec community after calls for change in terminology
NSA Issues VPN Security Guidance
Be careful which pre-configured policies you leave on your IPsec VPN, warns the US government
Moose Remain Unaware of Lottery Privacy Breach
The Nova Scotia moose hunting lottery didn’t go entirely to plan this year
Avaddon Ransomware Still Using Excel 4.0 Macros
The Avaddon ransomware is using Excel 4.0 macros as an infection vector
Record Number Enrol in Online NCSC CyberFirst Courses
The NCSC plans to provide a mix of classroom and virtual classes going forward
V Shred Exposes Pics and PII on 100,000 Customers
Researchers at vpnMentor claim fitness firm misconfigured S3 bucket
GoldenSpy Uninstaller Appears Out of Nowhere
Backdoor removal asks more questions than it answers
Global Dating App Users Exposed in Multiple Security Snafus
WizCase researchers find unsecured online databases in US and Asia
Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Apache Remote Desktop Software
Apache Guacamole is an open source remote access gateway