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Gamifying Password Training Shows Security Benefits
by Robert Lemos Contributing Writer on August 10, 2020 at 10:25 pm
When picking passwords, users often fall back on certain insecure patterns, but good habits can be learned using simple games, a group of researchers find.
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Better Business Bureau Warns of New Visa Scam
by Dark Reading Staff on August 10, 2020 at 9:25 pm
Visa limitations due to the novel coronavirus have given rise to a wave of scams aimed at visa-seekers.
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Q2 DDoS Attacks Triple Year Over Year: Report
by Dark Reading Staff on August 10, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Distributed denial-of-service attacks have stayed consistently high throughout 2020, a shift from normal attack trends that researchers attribute to COVID-19.
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Qualcomm Bugs Open 40 Percent of Android Handsets to Attack
by Tom Spring on August 7, 2020 at 10:11 pm
Researchers identified serious flaws in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC and the Hexagon architecture that impacts nearly half of Android handsets.
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Attackers Horn in on MFA Bypass Options for Account Takeovers
by Tara Seals on August 7, 2020 at 8:24 pm
Legacy applications don’t support modern authentication — and cybercriminals know this.
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Black Hat 2020: Influence Campaigns Are a Cybersecurity Problem
by Tom Spring on August 7, 2020 at 12:48 am
An inside look at how nation-states use social media to influence, confuse and divide — and why cybersecurity researchers should be involved.
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Incident Of The Week: Australian Government Directory Breached In First Cyberatt…
by Esther Shein on January 4, 2019 at 8:54 pm
The first data breach of 2019 came less than 24 hours into the new year when the private data of 30,000 Australian civil servants was stolen in a phishing attack. The breach occurred when a directory…
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Incident Of The Week: NASA Reveals Employee Data Breach In Memo
by Esther Shein on December 28, 2018 at 3:29 am
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that one of its servers was hacked earlier this year, exposing personal data of current and former employees including social securit…
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Avaddon ransomware operators have launched their data leak site
by Pierluigi Paganini on August 11, 2020 at 8:16 am
Avaddon ransomware operators, like other cybercrime groups, decided to launch a data leak site where publish data of victims who refuse to pay a […]
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Researcher discloses exploit code for a vBulletin zero-day
by Pierluigi Paganini on August 11, 2020 at 8:14 am
A researcher published details and proof-of-concept exploit code for a zero-day RCE vulnerability in the popular forum CMS vBulletin. The researcher […]