Infosecurity News

  1. Vulnerability Exposes iPhone Users to Payment Fraud

    Researchers successfully bypassed an iPhone's Apply Pay lock screen to perform contactless payments

  2. Cyber Second Only to Climate Change as Biggest Global Risk

    Ransomware drives increasing awareness of threat levels

  3. API Flaw Exposes Elastic Stack Users to Data Theft and DoS

    Researchers reveal serious design implementation issue

  4. Cybersecurity CEO Arrested in Russia on Treason Charges

    Group-IB boss faces 20-year jail term if found guilty

  5. Canadian Vaccine Passport App Exposes Data

    Personal information of hundreds of thousands of PORTpass users allegedly viewable in plain text

  6. US Mulls Cyber-attack Reporting Mandate

    Critical infrastructure companies may be required to report cyber-attacks to federal government

  7. YouTube Pledges to Block all Anti-Vaccine Content

    The video-sharing site outlined its updated medical misinformation policy in a blog post published earlier today

  8. Mental Healthcare Providers Report Data Breaches

    Seattle’s Samaritan Center and Philadelphia’s Horizon House warn PHI may have been exposed

  9. More Than Two-Thirds of Organizations Are Targets of at Least One Ransomware Attack

    85% are more concerned about a ransomware attack than other cyber-threats, according to Fortinet survey

  10. ICO Reveals 60% Rise in Nuisance Contact Reports

    The UK's ICO received an average of 13,925 reports of nuisance calls, texts and emails per month in the first half 2021

  11. CISA and NSA Deliver New Security Guidance for VPNs

    Best practice advice will help to reduce corporate attack surface

  12. Most Third-Party Cloud Containers Have Vulnerabilities

    Researchers claim misconfigurations are also rife in cloud infrastructure

  13. SolarWinds Attackers Develop New FoggyWeb Backdoor

    Malware steals info from Active Directory Federation Services servers

  14. Cyber-attack Floors British Payroll Firm

    Giant Group initiates total system shutdown after “sophisticated” attack

  15. US Deports Convicted Cyber-criminal to Russia

    Operator of illegal online marketplaces who sold stolen card credentials is returned to native country

  16. Nebraska County Attorney Indicted for Cyber-stalking

    One alleged victim was so traumatized by the abuse that he was committed to a psychiatric ward

  17. New Emergency Fraud Hotline Launched in UK

    UK citizens can now call 159 to quickly connect to their bank's fraud prevention service

  18. Half of Regulated Firms See Pandemic Spike in Financial Crime

    A quarter of legal, financial and property companies fell victim in 2020

  19. FCC: Applications Open Soon for Huawei/ZTE Replacement Fund

    Small carriers can access $1.9bn pot to rip-and-replace telecoms kit

  20. Crypto Developer Pleads Guilty to North Korean Plot

    US citizen taught officials how to use tech to evade sanctions

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