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Critical Infrastructure Security Needs an Overhaul
The security policies underpinning the nation’s critical infrastructure sectors and protecting them from cyberattacks are outdated and require comprehensive overhaul, according to a recent report by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0. According ...
Wells Fargo Employees Advised to Delete TikTok from Company Phones
The popular TikTok app was deemed a security risk by Wells Fargo, and its employees have been told to delete the app from their phones. It’s not the first company to suggest ...
US Now Considers Huawei and ZTE Threats to National Security
Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE Corp have been designated national security threats by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), citing the companies’ close ties with the Chinese Communist Party and the military ...
Cybersecurity Guidelines for U.S. High-Risk Chemical Facilities Are a Decade Old
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report on the cybersecurity of the high-risk chemical facilities and found serious security issues as the guidance for policies and protection procedures hasn’t ...
US Law Enforcement Takes Down COVID-19-related Online Malicious Campaigns
The Department of Justice cooperated with several private companies and internet domain providers and registrars to disrupt hundreds of websites and malicious campaigns that tried to exploit the current COVID-19 pandemic. Following ...
US Warns People that Zoom-bombing Is a Crime
Zoom-bombing, the act of highjacking Zoom video conferences by sharing pornographic and hate images among other things, might seem like an annoying practice, but law enforcement is warning people that it’s actually ...
FBI Outlines Technique Behind DDoS Attacks on US Voter Registration Website
Hackers who unleashed DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on a state-level voter registration and voter information website in the US used a technique called Pseudo Random Subdomain Attack (PRSD,) which ...
Head of ‘Cardplanet’ Stolen Credit Card Marketplace Pleads Guilty in the US
Aleksei Burkov, 29, pleaded guilty in the United States to money laundering, device fraud and other crimes after he was caught running an illegal website, called Cardplanet, that sold stolen credit card ...
Iranian Cyber-Attacks, Ring Class-Action Lawsuit, Preventing Calendar SPAM
In episode 103: The US Department of Homeland Security warns of Iranian cyber-attacks, Ring gets hit with a $5 million dollar class action lawsuit, and some quick tips on how to prevent ...
US Treasury wants national data breach notification standard
A US Treasury report has identified improvements that support non-bank financial institutions, innovation, and financial technology, with the main talking point being the creation of a national data breach notification standard. The ...
