Infosecurity News
Countries Ranked According to Online Risks
The researchers combined data from five cybersecurity indices and indicators to create the list
Cyber-Attacks on House of Commons Soar by 358% in 2021
Experts suggest home working has led to the surge
BlackMatter Bug Saved Victims Millions in Ransom Payments
Emsisoft claims to have vulnerability info on over 10 other variants
Tesco App and Website Back Online After Cyber Incident
Interference by third party took supermarket offline all weekend
Nebraska Issues First Federal Cyber-stalking Sentence
Cornhusker State imprisons man who cyber-stalked his former girlfriend and her new romantic partner
New Cybersecurity World Record Set
Cybersecurity training achievement is a Guinness World Record first
US Secret Service Announces Cyber Games Winner
South Carolinians beat more than 200 teams to win NCFI’s Training and Cyber Games Competition
FOI Request Reveals Scale of Data Breaches at UK Councils
UK councils experienced 33,645 data breaches caused by human error in the past five years
22% of Brits Received Proof of Vaccination Phishing Email in Past Six Months
The majority of these scam messages impersonated the NHS
Halloween Horror-Show for Candy-Maker Hit by Ransomware
Chicago-based Ferrara slowly recovering as other firms are compromised again
Over 80% of Brits Deluged with Scam Calls and Texts
Summer of spam sees scammers ramp-up their fraud campaigns
Government Agents Compromise REvil Backups to Force Group Offline
Report reveals international operation to disrupt notorious ransomware operation
US Imprisons Bulletproof Hosting Providers
Two Eastern Europeans receive prison sentences for helping cyber-criminals to distribute malware
DOJ Sues Robocaller to Pay Massive Fine
US seeks to recover $9.9m from Montanan fined for making nearly 5,000 illegal and malicious robocalls
CISA Awards $2M to Cybersecurity Training Programs
NPower and CyberWarrior receive funding to train unemployed and underemployed
72% of Organizations Experienced a DNS Attack in the Past Year
Of those organizations impacted by DNS attacks, 61% were targeted on multiple occasions
#ISC2Congress: How to Mitigate Evolving Insider Threats
The changing nature of insider threats and how to mitigate them were topics of a talk by Lisa Forte
Threat Actors Abusing Discord to Spread Malware
Check Point researchers warn platform needs more in-built protections
US to Ban Export of Hacking Tools to Authoritarian States
Latest commerce department rule will include exemptions
Data Scrapers Expose 2.6 Million Instagram and TikTok Users
Information was found in a misconfigured Elasticsearch server
