The SIM Swap Fix That the US Isn’t Using
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:00:00 +0000
While foreign phone carriers are sharing data to stop SIM swap fraud, US carriers are dragging feet.
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This Week in Security News: Phishing Attacks and Ransomware
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 12:00:16 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about schemes used in phishing and other email-based attacks. Also, learn how ransomware continues to make a significant impact in the threat landscape. Read on: New…
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Read MoreMiners snatching open source tools to strengthen their malevolent power!
Credit to Author: Anant Pulgam| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 07:02:51 +0000
From the last one year, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing a boost in the number of mining malware. One of the ways to earn cryptocurrencies is to mine them. Nowadays cryptocurrency miner malware have become hot attack vectors for cybercriminals due to its ease of deployment and instant…
Read MoreGoDaddy Takes Down 15,000 Spammy ‘Snake Oil’ Subdomains
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:00:00 +0000
You know those ads hawking bogus brain pills? Security researchers just helped take out a bunch of the spammers behind them.
Read More‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
Credit to Author: Mara Hvistendahl| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000
In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan.
Read MoreFedEx CIO: It’s time to mandate blockchain for international shipping
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:26:00 -0700
TORONTO — When railroad tracks were first laid across the western U.S., there were eight different gauges all competing to dominate the industry – making a nationwide, unified rail system impossible; it took an act of Congress in 1863 to force the adoption of an industry standard gauge of 4-ft., 8-1⁄2 inches.
FedEx CIO Rob Carter believes the same kind of thing needs to happen for blockchain to achieve widespread enterprise adoption.
While the promise of blockchain to create a more efficient, secure and open platform for ecommerce can be realized using a proprietary platform, it won’t be a global solution for whole industries now hampered by a myriad of technical and regulatory hurdles. Instead, a platform based on open-source software and industry standards will be needed to ensure process transparency and no one entity profits from the technology over others.
Supply Chain Hackers Snuck Malware Into Videogames
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:16:22 +0000
An aggressive group of supply chain hackers strikes again, this time further upstream.
Read MoreApple edges closer to cursory code review for all Mac apps
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 04:25:00 -0700
Apple will soon make a code review mandatory for all applications distributed outside its own Mac App Store by new developers, a first step towards requiring all Mac software to pass similar reviews.
The Cupertino, Calif. company argued that the process, which it calls “notarization,” would build a more secure macOS environment. “We’re working with developers to create a safer Mac user experience through a process where all software, whether distributed on the [Mac] App Store or outside of it, is signed or notarized by Apple,” the company stated in an April 10 message on its developer portal.