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An annual religious service held in Atlanta in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day was disrupted by a cyber-attack. Threat actors reportedly targeted a Shabbat service that was being broadcast live over the internet from Atlanta synagogue The Temple on January 15. The attack occurred as US...

The number of suspicious domains that feature the word "vaccine" in their title increased by almost 100% in the month after the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was given outside of a clinical trial. British grandmother Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the vaccine on...

New research by New Zealand company Emsisoft has found that a cyber-blackmail tactic first debuted by ransomware gang MAZE has been adopted by over a dozen other criminal cyber-gangs. The internationally renowned security software company declared a ransomware crisis in the last month of 2019...

Detections of crypto-mining malware surged by 53% quarter-on-quarter in the final three months of 2020 as the value of Bitcoin soared, according to Avira. The price of one Bitcoin now stands at over $35,500, close to an all-time-high it hit earlier this month, according to the security vendor’s...

A quarter (25%) of company directors are prevented from delivering cybersecurity training to staff by budgetary constraints, according to iomart’s Cybersecurity Insights Report. The survey of UK-based workers across C-level, director, manager and employee level, found that 28% of businesses...

Malwarebytes has confirmed that the SolarWinds attackers managed to access internal emails, although via a different intrusion vector to many victims. While many of the organizations caught up in the suspected Russian cyber-espionage campaign were compromised via a malicious SolarWinds Orion...

More than three-quarters of applications in the retail and hospitality sector contain at least one vulnerability, with a high percentage of these requiring urgent attention, according to Veracode. The application security vendor analyzed more than 130,000 applications to compile its latest...

Today, January 20 2021, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the Unites States of America. He and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris will take their oaths of office on the West Front of the US Capitol. The Inauguration Day celebrations will take place in unprecedented...

The growing importance of ethical hacking in protecting organizations against the current threat landscape was discussed by a panel speaking during a HackerOne webinar entitled ‘Hacker Powered Security Predictions for 2021 EMEA.’ Moderator Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, firstly emphasized how...

The United States Marine Corps today announced the creation of a Marine Corps’ Adversarial Cyber Assessment "Blue Team" (MCAT). A Blue Team is a group of people who identify security threats and risks in the operating environment and analyze the network environment and its current state of...

A former executive of Google subsidiary Waymo, imprisoned in the United States for stealing a trade secret and sharing it with rival company Uber, has been pardoned by outgoing president Donald Trump. On March 19, 2020, Anthony Scott Levandowski pleaded guilty to one of 33 counts of trade...

Two women in Kentucky have been arrested in connection with a year-long cybercrime operation involving stolen identities and fraudulent benefit claims. An investigation was launched by police in West Buechel at the beginning of January when they received a call from a local branch of the bank...

Interpol has issued a global warning that dating app users are being groomed for investment fraud scams. The policing body’s Purple Notice claimed that lonely hearts are picked off online, when the fraudsters establish an “artificial romance” with their victims. Once they have built up a level...

A notorious threat actor appears to have published 1.9 million user records for the popular online photo editing site Pixlr, putting customers at risk of follow-on attacks. “ShinyHunters” dumped the files over the weekend for free on an underground forum, claiming the site was breached at the...

Over half (58%) of UK businesses have cited security concerns as the biggest barrier to public cloud adoption, according to a new study from Centrify. The survey of 200 business decision makers in large and medium-sized enterprises in the UK also found that over a third (35%) who have adopted...

The worldwide cybersecurity market is set to grow by up to 10% this year to top $60bn, as the global economy slowly recovers from the pandemic, according to Canalys. The analyst firm clarified that double-digit growth from $54.7bn in 2020 would be its best-case scenario. However, even in the...

IoT and OT security firm Nozomi Networks has announced that enterprise security leader Barmak Meftah has joined its board of directors. Meftah brings more than 25 years of experience in building market-leading enterprise SaaS and cybersecurity companies to Nozomi Networks and most recently...

Credit card firm Mastercard has unveiled new quantum-resistant standards that are designed to enhance the security and privacy of contactless payments. As a result of the move, Mastercard will become the first payments network to bring quantum-era security and privacy to contactless payments...

Application security threat modeling solutions provider IriusRisk has announced the appointment of Dr Gary McGraw to its threat modeling technical advisory board. Dr McGraw – who has a PhD in computer science and cognitive science – joins existing advisor Adam Shostack and will assist in the...

A hacker who became the first ever Cypriot national to be extradited to the United States has pleaded guilty to extorting major American website operators with stolen user data. Joshua Polloso Epifaniou was a teenager when he started hacking into websites, stealing information, and threatening...