Image: kinkate, Avon Cosmetics giant Avon is recovering from a mysterious cyber-security incident that took place last week, on June …
South African bank to replace 12m cards after employees stole master key
Postbank, the banking division of South Africa’s Post Office, has lost more than $3.2 million from fraudulent transactions and will …
Lamphone attack lets threat actors recover conversations from your light bulb
In a research paper published this week, academics detailed a novel method of recovering conversations and audio recordings by observing …
Stalkerware detection rates are improving across antivirus products
Detections rates for stalkerware applications on Android and Windows devices are slowly improving, according to the findings of a seven-month …
Russia says Germany has not provided any evidence of Bundestag hack
Image: Getty Images Special feature Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity Today’s security threats have expanded in scope and seriousness. …
Hackers breached A1 Telekom, Austria’s largest ISP
A1 Telekom, the largest internet service provider in Austria, has admitted to a security breach this week, following a whistleblower’s …
Jenkins team avoids security disaster after partial user database loss
The developers of the Jenkins open source automation server said they’ve successfully recovered their backend infrastructure after a partial user …
KingMiner botnet brute-forces MSSQL databases to install cryptocurrency miner
Owners of MSSQL databases are advised to secure their servers, UK cyber-security firm Sophos said in a report today. The …
Vulnerabilities in popular open source projects doubled in 2019
A study that analyzed the top 54 open source projects found that security vulnerabilities in these tools doubled in 2019, …
QNAP NAS devices targeted in another wave of ransomware attacks
Image: QNAP The operators of the eCh0raix ransomware have launched another wave of attacks against QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices. …