India bans cryptocurrencies, but will further explore blockchain

The Indian government doesn’t recognize bitcoin as legal tender and is fully committed to eliminating cryptocurrency payments from its system, Bloomberg writes. Government officials have repeatedly called cryptocurrency payments mere ‘Ponzi schemes’ and sent out thousands of tax notices to cryptocurrency investors. Despite banning the purchase and sale of cryptocurrency, the Indian government wants to […]

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Patch released to fix Firefox arbitrary code execution vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox released an update to patch its open-source web browser after developer Johann Hofmann detected a critical HTML flaw that could allow hackers to exploit the browser remotely. The vulnerability only affected the desktop version of Firefox, and not iOS, Android and Amazon Fire TV versions. The vulnerability was the result of “insufficient sanitization […]

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Hacker uses malware to steal, resell gas in major Russian fraud scheme

Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents arrested a Russian national in Stavropol on Sunday for launching a large malware campaign targeting gas stations in southern Russia, informs Russian news outlet Rosbalt. According to the investigation, Denis Zayev created a malicious program that he sold to dozens of gas station employees to inject in the pumps’ software […]

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IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Named Top Technologies in 2018

2018 is the year that IoT, as well as artificial intelligence and robotics, will drive digital innovation and completely transform business models, found a Forbes Insights survey of over 500 senior executives from different countries.

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Twitter accused of breaking privacy claims by conservative media group

Social media giant Twitter is in the midst of a scandal following accusations of breaking privacy claims. Pro-Trump group Project Veritas released three videos in which Clay Haynes,  a senior engineer at Twitter, is recorded without his consent in a bar making various statements about the company’s policy on disclosing sensitive tweets and DMs. Speaking […]

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Hackers can execute malicious code through vulnerability in Transmission BitTorrent client

If you download content through the popular Transmission BitTorrent client, take a closer look at its security settings: a critical vulnerability has been detected by Google’s Project Zero reporting team. According to the report published Tuesday, the flaw lets hackers execute malicious code and gain remote control of user PCs through their web browsers. 40 […]

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Bitcoin loses ground; hackers opt for other encrypted digital currencies

Bitcoin’s popularity is waning as alternatives such as Stellar, ZCash or monero climb the cybercriminals’ preferred list. Hackers are switching to other cryptocurrencies that law enforcement may be less familiar with, so chances of detecting crime or money laundering related transactions decrease. ZCash and monero, for example, allegedly bring better encryption and privacy features to […]

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DHS breach exposes data of almost 247,000 employees, subjects, witnesses, complainants

Philip Kaplan, chief privacy officer of the US Department of Homeland Security, has confirmed in a statement that a 2014 security breach exposed personally identifiable information of more than 240,000 people who worked for the department in the previous 12 years, as well as subjects, witnesses and complainants in investigations. An unauthorized copy of the […]

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‘starwars’ joins the top 100 worst passwords list in 2017

2017 will be remembered for some of the worst hacks and data leaks. Equifax, WannaCry, Goldeneye and Uber’s concealment of the leak of 57 million user records have apparently taught the average internet user nothing about security. Users still haven’t understood the importance of strong unique passwords, password management provider SplashData concluded after analyzing over […]

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Major hacks in 2017 and what enterprises can expect from the threat landscape in 2018

Each December, security researchers make predictions for the following year, and they always seems to sound the same: attacks will increase, malware will be more sophisticated because hackers are upping their game, so IT executives must secure their infrastructure or else. So what can enterprises expect from the threat landscape in 2018?

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Trump signs National Defense Authorization Act; drone registration is back

The drone registration rule issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2015 has been reinstated following US President Donald Trump’s signing of the National Defense Authorization Act yesterday. In December 2015, 800,000 people had registered online their small aircrafts that exceeded 55 pounds, before a federal judge dismissed the initiative on grounds that the […]

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Machine Learning: The Difference between Tool and Security Layer

Following years of active research and progress, artificial intelligence and machine learning have gained traction, becoming integrated in all cybersecurity layers to boost the efficiency of unknown malware detection, spam detection, URL filtering and network anomalies. Still, the industry has only reached the tip of the iceberg, with many opportunities still to be explored in the future.

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