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  • "4 in 10 Organizations Punish Staff For Cybersecurity Errors"
    To examine the prevalence of punishment in businesses and the impact of this on staff, a team of researchers led by Dr. John Blythe, Head of Behavioral Science at CybSafe, conducted a survey of cybersecurity awareness professionals as well as an…
  • "Interpol Warns of 'Alarming' Cybercrime Rate During Pandemic"
    The international criminal police organization Interpol has warned of the significant rise in cybercrime during the coronavirus pandemic.  An assessment conducted by the organization has revealed that cybercriminals have shifted their focus…
  • "Research Reveals Dangerous Design Flaws and Vulnerabilities in Legacy Programming Languages"
    Trend Micro shared new research conducted in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano that brings further attention to the design flaws in legacy languages and introduces new secure coding guidelines. The study provides details about how design flaws in…
  • "New Method to Defend Against Smart Home Device (IoT) Attacks Developed by BGU Researchers"
    A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) developed a new method that Telecommunications Service Providers (TSPs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can use to detect vulnerable…
  • "FBI Warns on New E-Commerce Fraud"
    The FBI is warning the public of a new wave of fraudulent shopping websites, often advertised on social media platforms.  The fraudulent shopping websites take orders for a wide range of products and then never deliver. The fraudulent sites tend to…
  • "Meetup Critical Flaws Allow 'Group' Takeover, Payment Theft"
    Researchers at Checkmarx have disclosed several critical flaws in the popular online social service, Meetup, which have now been fixed. Meetup is a platform used to find events and build groups based on similar interests. The exploitation of the flaws…
  • "'Hidden Property Abusing' Allows Attacks on Node.js Applications"
    A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered a new method for exploiting Node.js applications. The technique involves the abuse of hidden properties used to track internal program states. A remote attacker can use the…
  • "NetWalker Ransomware Gang Has Made $25 Million Since March 2020"
    Researchers at McAfee have discovered that the operators of the NetWalker ransomware have likely earned more than $25 million from ransom payments since March this year.  The $25 million figure puts NetWalker close to the top of the most successful…
  • "Travel Company CWT Avoids Ransomware Derailment by Paying $4.5m Blackmail Demand"
    According to reports, Minnesota-based business travel company CWT has been affected by a ransomware attack.  The reports show that the adversaries claimed they had scrambled files on 30,000 computers and uploaded 2 terabytes of company data.  …
  • "Election Cyber Surge Initiative Launches"
    The Cyber Policy Initiative (CPI) at the University of Chicago recently announced the launch of the Election Cyber Surge initiative. The initiative aims to help connect state and local election offices with volunteer technologists. According to CPI, the…
  • "Theoretical Technique to Abuse EMV Cards Detected Used in the Real World"
    Researchers from Cyber R&D Lab conducted an experiment in which they examined how 11 banks from the US, the UK, and the EU implement EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip cards on their networks. The researchers used tools similar to those used by…
  • "Hackers Breached Twitter Accounts by Targeting Employees by Phone"
    In a new update, Twitter clarifies some of the events around a July 15 breach in which attackers took over accounts belonging to former president Barack Obama, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, and rapper Kanye West to solicit bitcoin. The scammers…