German police have arrested seven people following a raid on an illegal data center in a former NATO military bunker that was hosting dark web sites promoting illegal content. The raid, which took place in the town of Traben-Trarbachsaw saw the arrest of the owner of the bunker, an unnamed 59-year-old Dutchman and six others with […]
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Just last month, news broke that biometric data for more than a million people was exposed from a platform called Biostar 2, a tool to control access to buildings and secure areas. This wasn’t the first time a biometric database had been compromised. Remember the OPM breach? Over 20 million people who went through U.S.
Equifax Perhaps the most notorious attack of the year targeted Equifax, one of the largest credit bureaus in the country. Hackers were able to steal data from a reported 145 million people, making it one of the largest hacks of all time. Sensitive information such as birth dates, social security numbers, home addresses and more
As part of a new discovery, a security researcher found an exploit dubbed Checkm8 (to be pronounced Checkmate), which can allow for permanent jailbreaking of iPhones, starting from the older iPhone 4s to the iPhone X. Checkm8 Jailbreak Exploit The new ‘unpatchable’ flaw has been discovered by a security researcher going by the name ‘Axi0mx’
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Cybersecurity professionals today are betting a bundle on automation. Short-staffed, under-skilled, and facing novel threats, they hope automation can help by performing certain tasks on their behalf. But simply buying a few software products may not substantively improve a company’s security stance, according to Ted Julian (pictured), vice president of product management and co-founder of Resilient,
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A whistleblower complaint about a potentially coercive phone call President Donald Trump had in July with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky led to a congressional hearing and full-on impeachment inquiry this week. At one point in the call, Trump brought up the cybersecurity incident response firm Crowdstrike, indicating that he still doesn’t believe the US intelligence
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But can they put it back together? (via iFixit) Apple loves to boast about how safe and secure their pricey, premium, proprietary platforms are. And they back that up. Whether or not you think it’s worth it, Apple’s tight walled garden control of its tech means their products are less susceptible to hacks and viruses.
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Inefficient incident response to email attacks is costing businesses billions in losses every year. For many organizations, finding, identifying and removing email threats is a slow and manual process that takes too long and uses too many resources. Research from Barracuda Networks finds that that, on average, a business takes three and a half hours
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Across the United States, consumers are canvassing their communities with a new type of device that’s changing civic life. Camera-equipped doorbells and other home surveillance devices, made by companies like Ring, are documenting facets of suburban existence that once went unnoticed. For years, citizens have used smartphones to monitor their neighborhoods, especially instances of police
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By Samuel Bocetta If you run a small business, security is probably near the top of your priority list—and if it’s not, it should be. Businesses are the most common targets for cyberattacks, and the consequences of having data stolen can be huge ever since the passage, implementation, and consequences of the GDPR (General Data
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