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Senior managers in UK and US companies are routinely exposing their organization to cyber-threats with more risky device and password management practices than their junior colleagues, according to OneLogin. The identity and access management (IAM) provider polled 2000 remote workers in both...

North Korea’s offensive cyber-program evolved from one of power projection to one which is “dual-focused” and going after international economic targets. Speaking at Black Hat Europe 2020, Crowdstrike researchers Jason Rivera and Josh Burgess discussed how North Korea had advanced its strategy...

Identity and access management will be crucial to securing workforces going forward, according to a panel speaking of experts during the Wallix Live: The State of Security event. The speakers acknowledged the “herculean” effort of many organizations to successfully roll out mass remote working...

Email defense provider Vade Secure has announced the appointment of former Israeli military staff sergeant Maya Gershon as its new chief revenue officer. Gershon is an electrical and computer engineering graduate who started her career working at Unit 8200, a top-secret and classified...

The Cyber Helpline, a volunteer organization that offers emergency assistance to victims of cybercrime and cyber-stalking in the UK, has been awarded £10,000 in lottery funding. The group said the money will be used to support its helpline and chatbox services, with demand rising rapidly due to...

Internet-connected MySQL databases around the world are being targeted by a double extortion ransomware campaign that researchers have dubbed PLEASE_READ_ME. The campaign, which dates back to at least January 2020, was detected by researchers at Guardicore Labs. So far, it has breached more...

An American healthcare provider has started notifying more than a million patients that their data may have been exposed as the result of a cyber-attack. Dental Care Alliance discovered on October 11 that it had been the victim of a hack that began on September 18, 2020. The company, which is...

An unnamed individual in the United States has pleaded guilty to creating a botnet and using it to launch a series of cyber-attacks against the gaming community before reaching their 18th birthday. The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, carried out in October 2016, caused what the...

A UK business specializing in tax relief for its clients has exposed the personal details of over 100,000 of them via a misconfigured content management system (CMS). Researchers at Website Planet told Infosecurity exclusively about the privacy snafu, which they discovered on October 13 and...

IT services provider Transputec will provide security for Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) aviation cargo and ground handling operations, it has been announced. Under the agreement, Transputec will work with ThreatSpike Labs to ensure WFS has the technology and services most relevant to its...

The development of an Internet of Things (IoT) threat hunting framework enabled the discovery of over a billion attacks. Speaking at Black Hat Europe, TXOne threat researchers Mars Cheng and Patrick Kuo discussed the threat hunting framework they had developed for IoT malware. They explained...

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced its annual CyberFirst Girls Competition is now open for registrations, with a mission to inspire the next generation of young women to pursue a career in the industry. Although set-up as an off-shoot of GCHQ to advise and protect UK...

Operational technology (OT) security company Claroty has announced the appointments of Adi Weisz as VP of engineering and Brian Dunphy as VP of product management as the firm looks to continue its growth and innovation in the field of industrial cybersecurity. Weisz joins Claroty from Lusha and...

Rights groups have expressed serious concerns over reports that a UK supermarket chain recently completed a trial of controversial facial recognition technology. The Southern Co-operative, whose stores cover 10 counties across the south of England, revealed the trial in a little noticed update...

Angela McLaren has been announced as the new assistant commissioner of the City of London Police, with responsibility for economic and cybercrime. McLaren joins from Police Scotland, where she was the executive lead for organized crime, counter terrorism and intelligence. “I feel privileged to...

Norwegian police have blamed Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group Fancy Bear for the summer cyber-attack on Norway's single-chamber parliament, the Storting. In what was described as "a significant attack" by the parliament's director, Marianne Andreassen, unauthorized individuals...

A Kosovan hacker, imprisoned in the United States for stealing personal data belonging to US military and government personnel and sending it to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has been granted compassionate release. Ardit Ferizi was sentenced to 20 years in prison in September...

Just over three-quarters of cybersecurity professionals have said they expect to see an increase in DNS-related security threats over the next few weeks. In preparation, three in five (59%) have altered their DNS security methods in the run up to the holiday season, according to a new report...

A California man who admitted hacking into the computer system of Japanese gaming giant Nintendo and leaking proprietary data has been sentenced to three years in prison. Palmdale resident Ryan S. Hernandez, now aged 21, was still a minor when he and an associate used a phishing technique to...

Norwegian police have blamed Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group Fancy Bear for the summer cyber-attack on Norway's single-chamber parliament, the Storting. In what was described as "a significant attack" by the parliament's director, Marianne Andreassen, unauthorized individuals...