08 Mar Google Stops Issuing Security Warnings About Microsoft Edge Google has toned down its rhetoric by no longer displaying a security warning on its extension store to Microsoft Edge users that tells them to switch to Chrome to be more secure. […]
08 Mar New US Bill Aims to Protect Researchers who Disclose Govt Backdoors New legislation has been introduced that amends the Espionage Act of 1917 to protect journalists, whistleblowers, and security researchers who discover and disclose classified government information. […]
07 Mar How to Use Google Chrome Extensions and Themes in Microsoft Edge Microsoft’s new Edge browser is now available and it comes with an add-on store where you can find Microsoft-approved extensions. As Edge is built on the same Chromium code base, it can also access the Chrome Web Store. […]
07 Mar Data-Stealing FormBook Malware Preys on Coronavirus Fears Another email campaign pretending to be Coronavirus (COVID-19) information from the World Health Organization (WHO) is distributing a malware downloader that installs the FormBook information-stealing Trojan. […]
07 Mar Ransomware Threatens to Reveal Company’s ‘Dirty’ Secrets The operators of the Sodinokibi Ransomware are threatening to publicly share a company’s “dirty” financial secrets because they refused to pay the demanded ransom. […]
06 Mar Zoho Fixes No-Auth RCE Zero-Day in ManageEngine Desktop Central Web-based office suite and SaaS services provider Zoho released a security update to fix a remote code execution vulnerability found in its ManageEngine Desktop Central endpoint management solution. […]
06 Mar The Week in Ransomware – March 6th 2020 – Breaches Everywhere Ransomware continues to target the enterprise and local government in the hopes of a big windfall of bitcoins. In addition new variants of STOP, Dharma, and other families continue to be released. […]
06 Mar US Govt Shares Tips to Defend Against Coronavirus Cyber Scams The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency today shared tips on how to defend against scammers who use the coronavirus health crisis as bait to push their scams over the Internet. […]
06 Mar FBI Warns of BEC Attacks Abusing Microsoft Office 365, Google G Suite The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned private industry partners of threat actors abusing Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite as part of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. […]
06 Mar Telus-Owned Koodo Mobile Announces Data Breach, Stolen Info for Sale Telus-owned Koodo Mobile has suffered a data breach after their systems were hacked and customer data from August and September 2017 was stolen by the attackers. […]