Meanwhile, the SOHOpelessly Broken 2.0 study has been released by Independent Security Evaluators. The picture it paints of routers and the so-called 'smart' devices that make up the rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT) is not pretty.
Accordingly, the researchers sum up their findings as follows:
"Today, we show that security controls put in place by device manufacturers are insufficient against attacks carried out by remote adversaries.
Do you use the password manager LastPass? If so, you're certainly not alone. In recent years it has seen its popularity surge and has grown to become the most popular app of its type on the web. Tavis Ormandy discovered a critical flaw in the app's design allowing some user data to become compromised.
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.
Do you use Mozilla's Firefox browser? If so, then you should know that their most recent release, Firefox 69 has a new feature designed to help prevent companies from tracking you. If you update to Firefox 69, the new feature will be automatically enabled as part of the browser's Enhanced Tracking Protection feature.
