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  • "Law Enforcement Take Down Three Bulletproof VPN Providers"
    Law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands have seized this week the web domains and server infrastructure of three VPN services that provided a haven for cybercriminals.  The three services were active…
  • "FBI Warns of Ongoing COVID-19 Vaccine Related Fraud Schemes"
    A warning was recently issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) about scammers' continued efforts to…
  • "Rethinking Software and Risk to Protect the Public Sector"
    The current approach to cybersecurity in the public sector appears to be ineffective, as indicated by the continued growth in the sophistication and frequency of cyberattacks, in addition to the increase in spending on cybersecurity. More than $173…
  • "IBM Launches Experimental Homomorphic Data Encryption Environment for the Enterprise"
    IBM Security has launched a new service that lets companies experiment with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). This encryption scheme enables computers to perform operations on encrypted data without having to decrypt it, further enhancing the privacy…
  • "DDoS Attacks Hit Citrix Application Delivery Controllers, Hindering Customer Performance"
    Citrix has reported that its Citrix Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) were hit by a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. ADCs are networking products that allow security and network teams to manage application delivery speed and quality.…
  • "Email Threat Predictions for 2021"
    Dan Fein, the Director of Email Security Products at the AI cybersecurity company Darktrace, gave his predictions about new tactics and techniques that email attackers could use in 2021. According to Fein, attackers will attempt to commit more supply…
  • "Developing a Better Way to Address Vulnerabilities at the Source-Code Level"
    A team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Purdue University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) received a four-year, $3.9 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (…
  • "Network Operator Spend on Multi-Access Edge Computing to Reach $8.3B by 2025"
    In a new study, researchers found that the amount of money network operators will spend on multi-access edge computing (MEC) will grow from $2.7 billion in 2020 to $8.3 billion in 2025, as operators invest heavily in upgrading network capacities and…
  • "Only 30% Prepared to Secure a Complete Shift to Remote Work"
    Researchers at DTEX Systems conducted a new survey and discovered that that the biggest security concerns facing businesses are data leaking through endpoints (27 percent), loss of visibility of user activity (25 percent), and maintaining compliance…
  • "Lazarus Group Hits COVID-19 Vaccine-Maker in Espionage Attack"
    Researchers at Kaspersky have found that the advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Lazarus Group and other sophisticated nation-state actors are actively trying to steal COVID-19 research to speed up their countries’ vaccine-development efforts.…
  • "Apple Ships Hacker-Friendly iPhones to Security Researchers"
    Apple is sending hacker-friendly iPhones to security researchers. These iPhones allow researchers to examine the mobile OS for security vulnerabilities and report them easily. Researchers will be able to probe these iPhones for 12 months, which could be…
  • "New Decryption Platform to Combat Encryption Misuse"
    Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre have launched a new decryption platform that allows authorities to decrypt information gathered lawfully during criminal investigations. According to the…