Infosecurity News
Organizations Should Use Psychology to Promote Secure Behavior Among Staff
ISF digest sets out how orgs can positively influence staff behavior
Apple’s Head of Global Security Facing Bribery Charges
Thomas Moyer is accused of offering $70,000 worth of iPads to police officers
#BlackFriday: 84% of Consumers Willing to Risk Personal Data in Search of Bargains
Just a quarter of consumers are aware that scams are more common during Christmas and other sales shopping periods
Smart Doorbells Are Wide Open to Security Flaws
Report finds serious problems in many popular devices
TikTok Patches Bugs Enabling One-Click Account Takeover
Researcher gets nearly $4000 for high severity discoveries
Up to 350,000 Spotify Users Targeted by Credential Stuffers
Unsecured Elasticsearch database reveals all
US Police Make Arrest in $1m Airplane Scam
Houston man arrested over BEC scam exploiting sale of airplane down under
Louisiana Hospitals Report Data Breach
Cyber-attack exposes data of thousands of hospital patients of LSU Medical Centers
Anonymous Hacks Uganda Police Website
Uganda Police website downed by hacking collective in the wake of Bobi Wine’s arrest
A Fifth of Consumers Affected by Identity Fraud in 2020
A third of consumers are more concerned about fraud due to COVID-19
#COVID19 Drives Massive Multi-Cloud Adoption
AWS regional centers in the US and EU were top targets for attackers
Google Rolls Out End-to-End Encryption for Android Messages
Making users more secure will also make governments angrier
NCSC Issues Warning About Expected #BlackFriday Scams
As Black Friday and Cyber Monday loom, the NCSC warns about common scam tactics
MPs Bombarded by Nearly Three Million Monthly Email Attacks
Parliament’s defenses have blocked more than 22 million this year
Ransomware Suspected in Man United Attack
Club forced to shut down affected systems
Green Beret Passed Secrets to Russia
Former US Army Green Beret pleads guilty to role in Russian espionage conspiracy
Data Breach at Iowa Hospital
Social Security numbers and medical information of 60k patients exposed in Mercy Iowa City data breach
FireEye Acquires Respond Software
Respond Software acquired by FireEye for nearly $200m
#ISSE2020: Focus on 2020's Crypto Successes Rather than Efforts to Break it
Despite calls to break encryption, 2020 has brought successes for cryptography
CybExer Tasked With Enhancing Luxembourg’s Cyber-Defense Capabilities
Cyber-range will enhance the skills of the Luxembourg Directorate of Defense's cyber-personnel
