Researchers at Vrije Universiteit, in Amsterdam, have discovered a disturbing new side-channel attack. All Intel server-grade processors made since 2012 are vulnerable to what has been dubbed NetCAT.
That stands for Network Cache Attack and it exploits a weakness in Intel's Data Direct I/O (DDIO) feature.
The FBI's statistics on BEC (Business Email Compromise) attacks are alarming, to say the least. Over the last twelve months, the law enforcement agency has witnessed a 100 percent increase. The identified global exposed business losses attributed to BEC. Between June 2016 and July 2019, a total of 166,349 BEC incidents reported to the FBI. This led to total losses in excess of twenty-six billion dollars.
Twelve years ago, Google introduced a new feature to Google Calendar settings that allowed users to share their calendars with others. It's a great feature and invaluable in a corporate environment because it gives teams an easy way to collaborate. Google itself even touted the "make it pubic" feature of their calendar.
TFlower Ransomware
Over the last two years, ransomware attacks have become increasingly common against businesses of all shapes and sizes. And, while the attack vector saw a dip in popularity last year, this year it has come roaring back to the fore with several new strains of ransomware being developed and enjoying widespread use by hackers around the world.
Kaspersky Lab has recently issued a warning that should alarm and dismay students around the world. Based on the findings of some of the company's researchers, they've discovered a new surge in malware masquerading as legitimate digital textbooks. Given the staggering price of physical textbooks, many students have changed to acquiring digital copies of the books they need.
There is grim news for users of the online marketplace Poshmark, which is a thriving community where people buy and sell used clothing and other accessories. Recently it has come to light that the login details of more than 36 million of the company's 40 million members were acquired by an unauthorized third-party.
You've almost certainly been seeing stories on the internet this year about the growing trend of Deep Fakes.
They are videos that are expertly engineered to give the appearance of some prominent figure or another saying something that he or she never actually said.
Ransomware roared onto the global stage in 2017. Companies and government agencies around the world felt the impact with widespread campaigns like NotPetya and WannaCry.
By 2018, the number of ransomware attacks had begun to fall off while hackers found new tools to attack with, shifting toward cryptojacking, credential theft, and trojan malware.
Do you use the PDF Creator App called CamScanner? If you do, you've got plenty of company. Since the app was first published in 2010, it has been downloaded more than a hundred million times.
Unfortunately, Google recently pulled it from the Play store when they discovered that it began delivering malware to user devices.
There's some good news for Enterprise users who are still using Windows 7. By now, almost everyone is aware that the company is bringing support for the aging operating system to a close.
The original time frame for formally ending support and for ending the issuance of security updates was set for as soon as January 2020.
Enterprise users, however, were given the option of paying for additional support for a limited window of time to give them a little longer to migrate away from Windows 7 and onto a more modern OS. Unfortunately, that window is now rapidly closing too.
