New York City’s Biometric Identifier Information Law goes into effect on July 9. The law applies to food and drink establishments, places of entertainment, and retail stores in New York City that collect, retain, convert, store, or share biometric identifier information (e.g., retina or iris scans, fingerprints, voiceprints, and hand scans) from customers. According to the […]
Collected data makes it easier for spammers, phishers and stalkers Data scraped from about 700 million LinkedIn profiles — more than 90% of the entire declared LinkedIn member base — is being offered for sale in an online cybercrime marketplace. The data includes full names, workplace email addresses, dates of birth, workplace addresses, mobile phone
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The value of cryptocurrencies has fluctuated wildly, but the value is still high enough to garner a lot of attention, both legitimate and malicious. Most of the malicious activity we see is done for financial gain, and cryptocurrencies have provided attackers with a lucrative new avenue to pursue: cryptocurrency mining. Over the past year, we
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In the first quarter of 2021, 74% of malware threats detected were known to be Zero Day Attacks – meaning an attack sequence in which a signature-based antivirus identifier was not present at the time of the infection. In early 2021, it was the highest level of Zero Day Malware Detections ever recorded. Organizations must
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United States-based food processing company JBS USA has confirmed falling victim to a cyber attack, with the aftermath affecting its North American and Australian systems. “On Sunday, May 30, JBS USA determined that it was the target of an organized cybersecurity attack, affecting some of the servers supporting its North American and Australian IT systems,”
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Hacker or Hacker Group Attempt to Alter Chemical Water Treatment Proportions to Inflict Harm to Citizens A hacker gained access into the water treatment system of Oldsmar, Florida, on Friday and tried to increase the levels of sodium hydroxide — commonly referred to as lye — in the city’s water, officials said, putting thousands
The N.S.A.’s tools were most likely more useful than FireEye’s since the U.S. government builds purpose-made digital weapons. FireEye’s Red Team tools are essentially built from malware that the company has seen used in a wide range of attacks. Still, the advantage of using stolen weapons is that nation-states can hide their own tracks when
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A key malicious domain name used to control potentially thousands of computer systems compromised via the months-long breach at network monitoring software vendor SolarWinds was commandeered by security experts and used as a “killswitch” designed to turn the sprawling cybercrime operation against itself, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds disclosed this week that a compromise of its
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Ransomware is rapidly surfacing at pandemic rates. Research shows that a business is attacked every 11 seconds and attacks are estimated to cost businesses approximately $20 Billion dollars this upcoming year! There are fundamental ways to protect your organization and close the gaps. Here is the 2020 year in review: January Starting with January, let’s look
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As recent events have now shaped the culture of our business and personal life, we are now entering a new phase of the aftershock of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chaos, survival mode, quarantining, shifted focus, uncertainty, mass layoffs, financial disruption, and large companies now declaring bankruptcy have resulted in businesses and individuals shifting their attention to
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