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A computer programmer from Ohio who lied to federal agents about his involvement with an illegal online marketplace has been sentenced to prison. Michael R. Weigand, also known by his online pseudonyms "Shabang" and “~Shabang~,” concealed his work for illicit black marketplace Silk Road when...

Twitter has been fined over half a million dollars for violating European Union data protection laws in the first EU-wide privacy case. The EU's chief data watchdog today announced that it has issued an administrative fine of 450,000 euros ($547,000) to the social media titan for being too slow...

Almost three-quarters of businesses admit that tracking of customer data happens, but without consent. According to research from Zoho Corp, a survey of 1400 business leaders about third party ad tracking found 100% of respondents said their companies allow it, and 57% are “comfortable” or...

Cybercrime is becoming increasingly dangerous to organizations and individuals alike, according to Chief Supt. Andrew Gould, national cybercrime programme lead at the National Police Chiefs’ Council speaking during the BankSec 2020 virtual conference. One reason for this is that cybercrime is...

Over 45 million medical imaging files are freely accessible on unprotected servers, according to a new investigation by CybelAngel. The researchers discovered that a huge range of sensitive medical images, including X-rays and CT scans, can be accessed without the requirement for a username and...

A California man who admitted hacking into the computer system of Japanese gaming giant Nintendo and leaking proprietary data has been sentenced to three years in prison. Palmdale resident Ryan S. Hernandez, now aged 21, was still a minor when he and an associate used a phishing technique to...

Just over three-quarters of cybersecurity professionals have said they expect to see an increase in DNS-related security threats over the next few weeks. In preparation, three in five (59%) have altered their DNS security methods in the run up to the holiday season, according to a new report...

Identity and access management will be crucial to securing workforces going forward, according to a panel speaking of experts during the Wallix Live: The State of Security event. The speakers acknowledged the “herculean” effort of many organizations to successfully roll out mass remote working...

North Korea’s offensive cyber-program evolved from one of power projection to one which is “dual-focused” and going after international economic targets. Speaking at Black Hat Europe 2020, Crowdstrike researchers Jason Rivera and Josh Burgess discussed how North Korea had advanced its strategy...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has suffered a cyber-attack which led to the compromise of documents related to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, currently being deployed in the UK. The agency itself only issued a very brief statement, saying it could not provide more details while an...

Standard Chartered Bank customers were recently left shocked when they received transaction alerts through SMS and emails for withdrawals of around Rs. 50,000 from their bank accounts without any action on their part. There were a few bank customers who did not even get any report through SMS or...

Vodafone and 7 other telecom operators agreed to provide EC geolocation data from their subscribers' mobile devices. Telecommunications companies Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Telenor, Telia and A1 Telekom Austria agreed to provide the European Commission...

A couple years ago we did a tutorial on Hacking Tutorials on how to install the popular vulnerability assessment tool OpenVAS on Kali Linux. We’ve covered the installation process on Kali Linux and running a basic scan on the Metasploitable 2 virtual machine to identify vulnerabilities. In this...

A couple years ago we did a tutorial on Hacking Tutorials on how to install the popular vulnerability assessment tool OpenVAS on Kali Linux. We’ve covered the installation process on Kali Linux and running a basic scan on the Metasploitable 2 virtual machine to identify vulnerabilities. In this...

Government agencies have issued warnings about the fresh spate of attacks, apparently from nation-state actors against major security vendors. Last week FireEye disclosed that it had spotted an attack from nation state actors looking for data on government clients, where attackers were able to...

Government agencies have issued warnings about the fresh spate of attacks, apparently from nation-state actors against major security vendors. Last week FireEye disclosed that it had spotted an attack from nation state actors looking for data on government clients, where attackers were able to...

Current and likely future cyber-attack trends were highlighted by Sarah Armstrong-Smith, chief security advisor, Microsoft Cybersecurity Solutions Group (UK) during the BankSec 2020 virtual conference. Through its analysis, Microsoft found that phishing and business email compromise (BEC)...

Current and likely future cyber-attack trends were highlighted by Sarah Armstrong-Smith, chief security advisor, Microsoft Cybersecurity Solutions Group (UK) during the BankSec 2020 virtual conference. Through its analysis, Microsoft found that phishing and business email compromise (BEC)...

Multi-cloud adoption grew by 70% year-over-year in 2020 outpacing the previous 12 months by more than 20%. According to the Continuous Intelligence Report The State of Modern applications, DevSecOps and the Impact of COVID-19 from Sumo Logic, customers adopted CloudTrail (60%), VPC Flow Logs...

Google has finally announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) will begin rolling out on its Messages platform, bringing it in line with rivals WhatsApp and iMessage in the security stakes. Messages by Google is built on the open Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard to offer improvements...