Twitter C-Level Resignations Continue As Blue Program Creates New Cyber-Risks
They left quoting concerns about the rollout of new features without an FTC consent decree
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- November 11, 2022
Experts Uncover Two Long-Running Android Spyware Campaigns Targeting Uyghurs
Two long-running surveillance campaigns have been found targeting the Uyghur community in China and elsewhere with Android spyware tools designed to harvest sensitive information and track their whereabouts. This encompasses a previously undocumented malware strain called BadBazaar and updated variants of an espionage artifact dubbed MOONSHINE by researchers from the University of Toronto’s
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- November 11, 2022
VPN vs. DNS Security
When you are trying to get another layer of cyber protection that would not require a lot of resources, you are most likely choosing between a VPN service & a DNS Security solution. Let’s discuss both. VPN Explained VPN stands for Virtual Private Networks and basically hides your IP and provides an encrypted server by […]
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- November 11, 2022
These Two Google Play Store Apps Spotted Distributing Xenomorph Banking Trojan
Google has removed two new malicious dropper apps that have been detected on the Play Store for Android, one of which posed as a lifestyle app and was caught distributing the Xenomorph banking malware. “Xenomorph is a trojan that steals credentials from banking applications on users’ devices,” Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Himanshu Sharma and Viral Gandhi said in […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends#IRISSCON: Social Engineering Testers Warned Not to Cross Ethical and Legal Boundaries
Sharon Conheady discusses the ethical and legal dilemmas often faced by social engineering testers
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- November 11, 2022
Validating VPC Endpoint Connections Occur Via the Private Network
ACM.108 How to inspecting traffic flows and troubleshoot VPC Endpoint connections This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. This post is long and detailed. You are really going to get your money’s worth! If you want a summary of what we discover in this post, jump to the end. If you […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsCISA Says Midterm Voting Uncompromised By Cyber-attacks
Election workers will continue to work in the days ahead to certify the election results
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsNSA Over-surveillance
Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that is, illegal) targeting of Americans. Given all we learned from Edward Snowden, this feels like a minor coda. There’s nothing really interesting in the IG document, which is heavily redacted. […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsOnly 30% of Cyber-Insurance Holders Say Ransomware is Covered
Insurers are cutting back on coverage as claims surge
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