With the doubling of security vulnerabilities found in popular open source projects between 2018 and 2019, many are concerned on the record being broken again in 2020.
Just ahead of the final vote on the European Union's controversial "Chat Control" proposal, a broad coalition of tech industry figures has come together to appeal to the bloc's governments to reject it in the name of privacy, security and free speech.
2019 password security report shows that even though businesses are increasingly adopting MFA and password generator solution, the passwords are still not strong enough or being reused between different accounts.
Password Manager LastPass says no master password was compromised after multiple users received unauthorized login alerts. The company blamed credential stuffing and system errors.
A blogpost from LastPass Labs warns of an attempted voice phishing attack on an employee that made use of an audio deepfake of company CEO Karim Toubba. The attacker peppered the LastPass employee with a series of calls, text messages, though the employee recognized it as a scam attempt and no damage was done.
As might be expected, the scale and scope of the latest Coinrail cyber heist has increased the call for new cryptocurrency regulations for both exchanges and trading, and could go a long way in maintaining investor faith in the modern financial system.
New Schrems privacy case could affect how global corporations carry out cross-border data transfers which may cause global trade and data flows to come to a halt.
Australia’s Latitude Financial Services is investigating a data breach that impacted two third-party service providers, exposing hundreds of thousands of customer records.
The LabHost phishing service had been active since 2021 and was responsible for the theft of at least 480,000 credit and debit card numbers with 64,000 pin numbers. According to the London Metropolitan Police, university students were among the 37 suspects recently rounded up in a law enforcement operation that took down the LabHost phishing service.
Joint international law enforcement effort involving about a dozen countries has taken down Ragnar Locker ransomware gang's dark web site, with an announcement that at least one arrest had been made.
