Cyber Security

Cyber Security

Researchers Create IllusionPIN to combat “shoulder-surfing”

Researchers have created a smartphone application to combat “shoulder-surfing”—when someone else...

OurMine hacks HBO social media accounts in latest breach

A group called OurMine appears to have taken control of the main HBO accounts, as well as those for...

Netwrix warns that employees are biggest threat to cybersecurity

Only 14% of government organizations consider themselves to be well-protected against cyber threats...

Kaspersky Lab: DDoS Attacks Are Getting Smarter and More Widespread

Security firm Kaspersky Lab says that distributed denial of service attacks—which overwhelm servers...

Briton who discovered the WannaCry kill-switch arrested over Kronos malware

A security researcher, Marcus Hutchins, 22, a British national who in May stopped an outbreak of the...

WannaCry attackers have cashed out the ransom accounts?

The More than $140,000 bitcoin ransom money from the wide WannaCry cyberattack have sat untouched in...

Apple Removes VPN Apps in China Not Compliant With Local MIIT Rules

It was reported last week that China was clamping down on users who rely on virtual private networks...

Cyber attack on Gandi hosting redirects 751 domains to malware site

Gandi SAS, a French web hosting company has announced that it suffered a security breach after...

Internet Australia expresses concerns over legislation to access encrypted messages

Internet Australia, the NFP peak body representing Internet users, today expressed concern at the...

China’s clamping down on VPNs to strengthen its Great Firewall

China’s clamping down on users who rely on virtual private networks (VPN) to break free of its...

“Sorebrect” New fileless ransomware, Injects code into svchost.exe

Security researchers have recently discovered a new fileless ransomware, dubbed...

DDoS attacks grew 172% in 2016, and it will increase 2.5-fold to 3.1 million by 2021

Global digital transformation will continue to have a significant impact on the demands and...