Tag: Information Security Buzz

Malvertising Campaign Targeting Internet Explorer Users

Read the original article: Malvertising Campaign Targeting Internet Explorer Users According to researchers, cybercriminals are adjusting their malvertising campaigns to adapt their malicious ads making them relevant to the COVID-19 crisis, including using website names appearing to host information related to…

Cybersecurity Specialist On Banks See Spike In Cyber Attacks

Read the original article: Cybersecurity Specialist On Banks See Spike In Cyber Attacks As the impact of COVID-19 leads cybercriminals away from attacking targets in the healthcare and retail sectors, it seems their attentions have been turned to financial institutions…

Wappalyzer Breach – Expert Insight

Read the original article: Wappalyzer Breach – Expert Insight Following the news that tech company Wappalyzer has disclosed a security incident this week after a hacker began emailing its customers and offering to sell Wappalyzer’s database for $2,000, “If you…

Expert Insight On Slack Phishing Attacks Using Webhooks

Read the original article: Expert Insight On Slack Phishing Attacks Using Webhooks AT&T Alien Labs recently conducted research into how webhooks in Slack can lead to some pretty convincing phishing attacks. The ISBuzz Post: This Post Expert Insight On Slack Phishing Attacks…

Comment: Open Source Assessment Platform Riddled With XSS Flaws

It has been reported that security researchers have uncovered multiple XSS vulnerabilities in TAO, an open source assessment platform. Researchers discovered the ‘medium’ severity vulnerabilities after examining the community edition of TAO, an employee training and assessment tool. The ISBuzz…

White House Phishing Scam – Expert Comments

Phishing scammers have started to impersonate President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in emails that distribute malware or perform extortion scams. In phishing emails discovered by an email security firm called Inky, threat actors try to impersonate the White…

Expert Comment: RigUp Data Breach Exposed 70,000 Records

In response to a recent vpnMentor report that revealed RigUp experienced a data breach compromising more than 70,000 private files belonging to its US energy sector clients, a cybersecurity expert offers perspective. The ISBuzz Post: This Post Expert Comment: RigUp…

Minimising The Threat From Sophisticated Cyber Attacks

Today, cybercriminals have the capacity and resources to carry out mass-targeted attacks that can inflict a great deal of destruction on an organisation. With these sophisticated skills and a growing number of solutions available to them, it is possible for…

Expert Reaction On Researchers Find Fraud Increasing

According to Javelin’s 2020 Identity Fraud Report, financial institutions’ methods to identify and respond to fraud are no match for criminals’ high-tech schemes to hijack consumer accounts. Fraud losses grew 13 percent in 2019 to $16.9 billion even as instances of…

Data Privacy In An Isolationist World

We seem to be blasé about our use of personal information in the modern world and share data freely with one and all with little regard to any possible consequences. There are more than 100 million Alexa devices in our…

Pandemic – Evolution Of New Age Working

We are living in a world in which we have either embraced technology, or we have been forced to use it (an example her is online banking) – and of course, we also may accept that, today in the majority…

Delayed Chrome Security Update

Google is delaying a Chrome security update to minimize disruption while people are forced to work remotely, according to TechRadar. Back in February, Google started to implement an important change to limit the functionality of third-party cookies in Chrome. Launched…

Businesses Need To Stay On The Front Foot: Expert Advise

With cyber criminals threatening to hold hospitals to ransom and the increased threat of criminals using the Coronavirus outbreak to launch online attacks, individuals and businesses need to ensure they are protecting their personal data and are dedicated to all…

Expert Comment: Key Ring App Data Leak Exposes Millions

The Key Ring app data leak has exposed 44 million images uploaded by users – compromising data including government IDs, NRA membership cards, medical marijuana ID cards, credit cards with all the details. A misconfigured Amazon Web Services server owned by…

Apple Pays $75,000 To Hacker Who Hijacked iPhone Camera

As reported by Forbes, ethical hacker Ryan Pickren has found seven zero-day vulnerabilities that enabled him to construct a kill chain, using just three of them, to hijack the iPhone camera successfully, or any iOS or macOS camera for that matter.…

A Cyber Approach To Coronavirus Containment

What lessons can be learned from reviewing how we manage cybersecurity and applying it to an anti-Coronavirus campaign? In recent years, some in the cyber world recognize that there is a lot to learn from the biological world when protecting…

Cybercriminals Exploit Coronavirus With Wave Of New Scams

With no vaccine yet developed, and with much of the world undergoing intense social distancing measures and near-total lockdown procedures, threat actors are flooding cyberspace with emailed promises of health tips, protective diets, and, most dangerously, cures. Attached to threat…

Expert On FCA allowing The Use Of Selfies

The FCA has today announced that it will relax rules around the use of selfies for identification purposes of customers. This is something of a shift for the FCA, and poses some challenges for FS organisations in ensuring that they correctly verify…

FBI Re-issues Warning About Kwampirs Malware

The FBI has re-issued the third warning about Kwampirs malware in the span on three months. The ISBuzz Post: This Post FBI Re-issues Warning About Kwampirs Malware appeared first on Information Security Buzz.   Advertise on IT Security News. Read the complete article: FBI…

On The Uptick In Healthcare Data Breaches

Data breaches in the healthcare industry have been accelerating during this pandemic with the latest total equaling 105 breaches affecting more than 2.5 million thus far in 2020 according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The ISBuzz Post: This Post…

Zoom Under Increased Scrutiny As Popularity Soars

As reported by BBC News, videoconferencing app Zoom has come under fresh high-level scrutiny as its popularity soars during the coronavirus pandemic. New York’s attorney general has written to the firm raising concerns over its ability to cope with the rise…

From Stop-Gap To Sustainable: Securing IT’s New Normal

The global pandemic is challenging the world to creatively and intelligently adapt to rapid change. People and organizations must define their new normal while adjusting to sweeping modifications such as social distancing and extensive remote work. For IT leaders, there…

Security Experts Re: Ryuk Ransomware Targets Hospitals

According to Bleeping Computer, the Ryuk Ransomware operators continue to target hospitals even as these organizations are overwhelmed during the Coronavirus pandemic. The ISBuzz Post: This Post Security Experts Re: Ryuk Ransomware Targets Hospitals appeared first on Information Security Buzz.…

Experts Insight On Watford Community Housing (WCH) Data Breach

Watford Community Housing (WCH) sent out an unencrypted spreadsheet with 3,544 rows of personal information on its tenants, including names, addresses, dates of birth, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic origin and disability status.  It’s not yet been confirmed if any of these…

Hijacked Twitter Accounts Used To Advertise Face Masks

Accounts pushed hundreds of tweets advertising a sketchy mask website on Tuesday, according to Vice. Hackers have taken over a wave of Twitter accounts to aggressively advertise a website that claims to be selling face masks and toilet paper during…

DCMS Cyber Security Breaches Survey – Commentary

DCMS has released its annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey, which found that – while threats have become more frequent – ransomware has decreased. The ISBuzz Post: This Post DCMS Cyber Security Breaches Survey – Commentary appeared first on Information Security Buzz.…

DDoS Attacks Increase 180% In 2019 Compared To 2018

Latest research from Neustar reveals across-the-board growth in attacks of all sizes Neustar, Inc., a global information services and technology company and leader in identity resolution, announced that its Security Operations Center (SOC) saw a 168% increase in distributed denial-of-service…