Telegram, one of the leading privacy-first messaging apps, has become home to a cybercrime ecosystem comparable to dark web forums. It allows for building very large private groups and the use of bots.
The Trump administration had proposed banning TikTok as a national security threat. Cybersecurity researchers from the University of Toronto have come to a different conclusion, though with caveats.
New report indicates that Twitter may have great value as a vulnerability management tool. Twitter mentions are twice as good as CVSS when it comes to measuring an organization's potential exploitability.
The Information Society Forum (ISF) believes that human-centered security is the way forward. Security awareness thus must stay in tune with expected patterns of behavior and psychological realities.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is suing Israeli surveillance technology firm NSO Group. It alleged that NSO group exploited a WhatsApp hack to spy on more than 1,400 people in 20 countries.
Issuing GDPR fines is just the first step of the process; at some point they have to be collected, and the UK ICO is struggling to do that with only a 26% success rate.
A data leak at Lloyds Banking Group stemming from an IT glitch exposed the personal information of nearly half a million customers, enabling them to see each other’s transactions.
In at least two of the attacks, those on Co-op and Marks and Spencer, the DragonForce group is confirmed to have used very similar social engineering approaches to convince the IT help desks to have an employee password reset.
New AttackIQ report shows a clear lack of accountability and responsibility for cybersecurity risk from security leaders with 40% of them not reporting to the board of directors at all.
German health insurers' IT services provider Bitmarck's early warning systems detected a cyber attack, forcing it to shut down internal and customer-facing applications, denying health insurers essential IT services.
