Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
International co-operation between law enforcement agencies in eleven countries has put a stop to FluBot mobile malware which was spreading rapidly rapidly by text messaging between Android devices. This malware was stealing sensitive data such as passwords and banking information from infected Android devices around the world. The complex investigation …
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The headline says it all. About 142 million customer records were stolen from MGM Resorts, the data included names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. Rich pickings for any threat actor. MGM’s data breach was over two years ago and the data has been on sale since …
The ICO has taken action against Clearview AI Inc for using the images of UK residents to create a global face recognition database and has prohibited them from collecting images of UK residents from the internet. This was a joint investigation between the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) …
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To learn this lesson you do not have to pay anything – the New South Wales tax payers, thanks to experts hired by their politicians and government will pay for you. As part of the cybersecurity Master’s course, we had to set up an experiment to test brute forcing of …
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Phishing campaigns usually depend on social engineering and threat actors are always looking for new ways to exploit your trust: Phishing scam adds a ‘chatbot-like’ twist to steal credit card information and more – The Record by Recorded Future
