Category: News

Researchers: NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Should Spark Bans, Apple Accountability

Our roundtable of experts weighs in on implications for Apple and lawmakers in the wake of the bombshell report showing widespread surveillance of dissidents, journalists and others.

Law Firm to the Fortune 500 Breached with Ransomware

Deep-pocketed clients’ customers & suppliers could be in the attacker’s net, with potential PII exposure from an A-list clientele such as Apple, Boeing and IBM.

Why Your Business Needs a Long-Term Remote Security Strategy

Chris Hass, director of information security and research at Automox, discusses the future of work: A hybrid home/office model that will demand new security approaches.

16-Year-Old HP Printer-Driver Bug Impacts Millions of Windows Machines

The bug could allow cyberattackers to bypass security products, tamper with data and run code in kernel mode.

A New Security Paradigm: External Attack Surface Management

Advanced EASM solutions are crucial to automating the discovery of the downstream third-party (or fourth-party, or fifth-party, etc.) IT infrastructures that your organization is exposed to, and may be vulnerable…
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MosaicLoader Malware Delivers Facebook Stealers, RATs

The newly documented code is a full-service malware-delivery threat that’s spreading indiscriminately globally through paid search ads.

What’s Next for REvil’s Victims? 

Podcast: Nothing, says a ransomware negotiator who has tips on staying out of the sad subset of victims left in the lurch, mid-negotiation, after REvil’s servers went up in smoke.

Unpatched iPhone Bug Allows Remote Device Takeover

A format-string bug believed to be a low-risk denial-of-service issue turns out to be much nastier than expected.

Ruthless Attackers Target Florida Condo Collapse Victims

Hackers are stealing the identities of those lost in the condo-collapse tragedy.

Protecting Phones From Pegasus-Like Spyware Attacks

Podcast: Can a new SIM card and prepaid service from an MVNO help? Former spyware insider, current mobile white hat hacker Adam Weinberg on how to block spyware attacks.