Threats & Breaches
What’s Your Brand Promise? Customer Data, Cybersecurity, Compliance, And Trust
This article by Andre Bourque originally appeared in Benzinga. Portions are republished below. Dealing with data breaches is normal for big brands in the retail realm. You only need to scan the ...
How to Stop an Intel Foreshadow Bug Exploit Attack
Several execution vulnerabilities has been detected to affect Intel Processors. The vulnerabilities which were detected so far have been reported to be an execution type of flaws and were quickly named Foreshadow ...
Apple hacked by 16-year-old who “dreamed” of working for firm
An Australian teenager has admitted hacking into Apple’s internal network and stealing 90 GB worth of files. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded guilty to breaking into ...
Trickbot Banking Trojan August 2018 Updated with Stealth Code Injection
The Trickbot banking Trojan has received an August 2018 update which adds a new code injection module. The infamous malware has remained active over the years as one of the most prominent ...
Speculation Attack Against Intel’s SGX
Another speculative-execution attack against Intel's SGX. At a high level, SGX is a new feature in modern Intel CPUs which allows computers to protect users' data even if the entire system falls ...
IoT, 5G Networks and Cybersecurity – Part 1: The Rise of 5G Networks
Smartphones today have more computing power than the computers that guided the Apollo 11 moon landing. From its original positioning of luxury, mobile devices have become a necessity in numerous societies across ...
Necurs Botnet Campaign Targets Banks with Malware .Pub Files
The Necurs botnet is being used in a new attack campaign concentrating banks worldwide. The latest security reports indicate that the attackers utilize .PUB files which are Microsoft Publisher documents. Read our ...
New Foreshadow Vulnerabilities Defeat Memory Defenses on Intel CPUs
Security researchers have uncovered a new way to exploit the speculative execution feature of Intel CPUs to bypass memory security barriers and leak protected information. The vulnerability, known as Foreshadow or L1 ...
CVE-2018-6177 Chrome Bug Allows Hackers to Steal Sensitive Data via HTML Tags
A Chrome browser vulnerability known under the CVE-2018-6177 identifier, recently discovered by Imperva researcher Ron Masas, was just patched by Google. The security flaw could allow an attacker to retrieve sensitive data ...
6 most common cyber attacks
Cyber crime is at an all-time high. While organisations are trying to counter cyber attacks, criminal hackers are becoming more innovative and their attacks more sophisticated. What is a cyber attack? Cyber ...
