by Charles Fleming | Jan 14, 2021 | Cybersecurity
The Chinese company has been accused of spying on millions of Android TikTok users using a technique banned by Google. According to a Wall Street Journal report, TikTok used a banned tactic to bypass the privacy safeguard in Android to collect unique identifiers from...
by Charles Fleming | Jan 11, 2021 | Cybersecurity
Microsoft is urging users to abandon telephone-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions like one-time codes sent via SMS and voice calls and instead replace them with newer MFA technologies, like app-based authenticators and security keys. Microsoft said...
by Charles Fleming | Jan 11, 2021 | Cybersecurity
Sakura Samurai security researchers identified exposed GitHub credentials on a United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) subdomain, which allowed them to access a trove of data, including more than 100,000 employee records. The researchers discovered an ilo.org...
by Charles Fleming | Jan 11, 2021 | Cybersecurity
Emotet has secured its spot as the most prolific malware threat. Over the Christmas and New Year period a spam campaign using Emotet targeted over 100,000 users a day. Emotet was used to target 7% of organizations around the world during December. The malware...
by Charles Fleming | Jan 8, 2021 | Cybersecurity
The FBI warns the Egregor ransomware, offered under a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model, poses a great threat to businesses due to the use of double extortion. Egregor has claimed more than 150 victims to date, all around the world. Following network...
by Charles Fleming | Jan 7, 2021 | Cybersecurity
Threat Alerts Jan7 2021 This new phishing attack uses an odd lure to deliver Windows trojan malware Be warned: COVID-19 vaccine scams are now appearing online, over text, and by email Businesses are overconfident about the state of their security Lightning does...