Cybersecurity gets a new pillar. Great news, Bletchley Park is creating a cybersecurity college. Teaching 16-19-year-olds cybersecurity skills along with maths, physics, computer science and economics. What better place for the college to be located than at Bletchley Park. The UK’s hub of codebreaking during the second world war, where the infamous Enigma Code was deciphered.
The incident. The US Navy announces today a major personal data breach. Back in October, due to a breach in a contractor’s laptop, someone accessed more than 130,000 accounts of its enlisted men. HP Enterprise Services notified the US Navy of the breach. They reported the “compromisation” of one of the Navy’s laptops operated by their employee supporting a Navy contract. Data accessed includes the names and Social Security numbers of 134,386 current and former Sailors. The Navy confronts data breach head on.…
OSquery, an open-source framework created by Facebook that allows organizations to look for potential malware or malicious activity on their networks, was available for Mac OS X and Linux environments until today.
The incident Yahoo recently informed the public about the theft of crucial information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts. The information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. Security advises Yahoo recommends users who haven’t changed their Yahoo passwords since 2014 do so. Their spokesperson said that account holders should also change passwords and security questions. Additionally, they should also change the answers for any other account they…
Great news for cybersecurity The UK government has announced an initiative that will see it join forces with some of the country’s hottest start-ups. They will fund the development of a start-up accelerator program that will help protect the UK from cyber attacks.
Apple has released iOS 9.3.5 update for iPhones and iPads to patch three zero-day security vulnerabilities. This happenned after finding a piece of spyware targeting the iPhone of a renowned UAE human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor.
Android backdoor exploited A newly discovered Android backdoor is using an innovative method of receiving commands: it connects to a Twitter account instead of a command and control (C&C) server, ESET researchers say.
Responsibility for securing enterprise applications has been moving down the development lifecycle, and for good reason. It not only makes the enterprise obtain security, but also saves companies time and money. In this article, we can talk about code security and what its impact.
NETMYSOFT Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Laxman Muthiyah spotted a freebooting vulnerability on Facebook‘s Rights Manager platform. Freebooting means the act of downloading someone else’s pirated content and uploading it on another online platform.
Specialists believe that cyber attackers used the toolkit, dubbed “HOMEKit” by Palo Alto Networks, to generate malicious Microsoft Word documents for various campaigns since 2013. Similar to the MNKit exploit generator, HOMEKit relies on the CVE-2012-0158 vulnerability in Office to deliver malware.
