Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000
After a slowdown in payments to ransomware gangs in 2022, last year saw total ransom payouts jump to their highest level yet, according to a new report from crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis.
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Credit to Author: Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0000
“You’d have an incomprehensible level of computational, predictive, analytic, and psychic skill. You’d have the mind of God.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:53:16 +0000
New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work.
Read moreWe look at a scam campaign on Facebook that continues to do the rounds, and how you can recover your compromised account.
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Most online users have experienced it. You do an online search for healthcare purposes, travel information, or something to buy and soon you’re being bombarded with emails and targeted online ads for everything related to your search. That’s because browser cookies were tracking you as you performed your searches; they identified you and your activity.
Over the past few years, the online advertising industry has been undergoing a sea change as regulators restricted how cookies can be used and browser providers moved away from their use in response to consumer outcries over privacy.
“They often feel surveilled; some even find it ‘creepy’ that a website can show them ads related to their behavior elsewhere,” according to a recent study by the HEC Paris Business School.
Credit to Author: Jagir Shastri| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000
In this blog entry, we discuss CVE-2023-22527, a vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence that has a CVSS score of 10 and could allow threat actors to perform remote code execution.
Read moreCredit to Author: Alifiya Sadikali| Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000
Attacks don’t stay in siloes, and neither should your security solutions. Explore the benefits of a cybersecurity platform that consolidates security across multiple layers—including the cloud—for more proactive risk management.
Read moreThe State of Malware 2024 report covers some topics that are of special interest to home users: privacy, passwords, malvertising, banking Trojans, and Mac malware.
Read moreBig Game ransomware is just one of six threats resource-constrained IT teams need to pay attention to in 2024.
Read moreSafer Internet Day is all about raising awareness about a safer and better internet for all, and especially for children and young people.
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