Security

Cyber Security Today, Nov. 16, 2022 – Bad news for application developers and early security advice for Black Friday shoppers

This episode reports on vulnerabilities found in applications, password variations hackers have figured out, advice for suspected deepfake audio messages

German authorities and Continental launch investigation after August cyberattack

Continental, a German tire and automotive supplier, said it was investigating the theft of company data as part of a high priority cyberattack, but...

Australia to criminalize ransom payments to hackers

After the recent cyberattacks that affected millions of Australians, Australia's Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil said the government would consider paying ransoms to cyber...

Critical vulnerability discovered in Spotify Backstage platform

A vulnerability has been discovered in Spotify's open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-incubated project Backstage, that could allow threat actors to execute remote code...

Google to pay US$391 million for misleading Android users on location tracking

States found Google violated their consumer prote

Fangxiao targets reputable companies with phishing scams

A malicious group known as "Fangxiao," which means "imitate" in Chinese, has created a vast network of more than 42,000 web domains that imitate...

Malicious SEO campaign compromises 15,000 WordPress sites

Hackers have launched a new malicious black hat search engine optimization (SEO) campaign that compromised over 15,000 WordPress websites to redirect visitors to fake...

Cyber Security Today, Nov. 14, 2022 – Lessons from cyber attacks against Ukraine, and beware of attempted extortion emails

This episode reports on mistakes that led to hacks in Ukraine, a wave of threatening emails, work-from-home websites shu

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