FICO has teamed up with Bitfury Group to create a cryptocurrency risk assessment solution for financial institutions. Announced on Wednesday, …
Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems
Image: Harrison Broadbent Academics from an Israeli university have published new research today detailing a technique to convert a RAM …
SEC filings: SolarWinds says 18,000 customers were impacted by recent hack
Image: SolarWinds, ZDNet IT software provider SolarWinds downplayed a recent security breach in documents filed with the US Securities and …
PgMiner botnet attacks weakly secured PostgreSQL databases
Security researchers have discovered this week a botnet operation that targets PostgreSQL databases to install a cryptocurrency miner. Codenamed by …
Zero-day in WordPress SMTP plugin abused to reset admin account passwords
Hackers are resetting passwords for admin accounts on WordPress sites using a zero-day vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin installed …
Mastercard, Visa cut card payment ties with Pornhub over child abuse, illegal content allegations
Mastercard and Visa have distanced themselves from Pornhub by revoking card payment services following accusations that the website is hosting …
Romania to host the EU’s new cybersecurity research hub
Razvan Negrea The European Council voted on Wednesday to locate the EU’s future cybersecurity research hub in Bucharest, Romania’s capital. …
Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website’s CSS files
Over the past two years, cybercrime groups have used quite an assortment of tricks to hide credit card stealing code …
Norway says Russian hacking group APT28 is behind August 2020 Parliament hack
APT28, one of Russia’s military hacking units, was most likely responsible for hacking the email accounts of the Norwegian Parliament, …
NortonLifeLock buys Avira in $360 million cash deal
Image: Avira Cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock (formerly Symantec) has agreed today to acquire German antivirus maker Avira from Bahrain-based Investcorp Technology …