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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000

In the last few years, the “Nigerian prince” scams have gotten a major upgrade.

December 27, 2019 admin

Toys “R” Us Is Back—Now With More Surveillance!

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Reports about the toy store using cameras to track shoppers caused an uproar, but the companies behind the tech insist their systems are trained to ignore kids.

Magazine Security VirusBulletin

December 27, 2019 admin

VB2019 paper: Never before had Stierlitz been so close to failure (or: what is a Soviet super-spy doing in a popular bundleware for Mac?)

Today, we publish the VB2019 paper and video by Sophos researcher Sergei Shevchenko in which he analyses a popular yet unnamed piece of macOS ‘bundleware’.

Independent Krebs

December 27, 2019 admin

Ransomware at IT Services Provider Synoptek

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 01:49:05 +0000

Synoptek, a California business that provides cloud hosting and IT management services to more than a thousand customer nationwide, suffered a ransomware attack this week that has disrupted operations for many of its clients, according to sources. The company has reportedly paid a ransom demand in a bid to restore operations as quickly as possible. Irvine, Calif.-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries, including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. The company employs nearly a thousand employees and brought in more than $100 million in revenue in the past year.

ComputerWorld Independent

December 27, 2019 admin

Skills that can help kids deal with cybersecurity challenges NOW & LATER

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 11:42:43 +0000

With the growing incidences of cyber-attacks, it has become indispensable for us to prepare our kids to face the challenges of cyber security head-on, rather than shy away from them. While schools do their best to make kids aware of the good and bad of using the internet, parents are…

Fortinet Security

December 27, 2019 admin

Introducing BIOLOAD: FIN7 BOOSTWRITE’s Lost Twin

Learn more about BIOLOAD, a malware recently attributed to the cybercrime group FIN7.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/9QiJy8dxEOQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>