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  • "New NIST Post-quantum Standards Make Use of Research by Prof. Chris Peikert"

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently announced the first standard series of quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms, a significant step toward securing digital data in a post-quantum world. The emergence of viable quantum…

  • "Researchers Propose Ephemeral Approach to IoT Privacy"

    An Internet of Things (IoT) device is likely collecting data about its user. The fact that many of these devices collect data on everyone around, regardless of whether they are the device owners or not, further compounds the possibility that this data…

  • "A Third of Mid-Sized Organizations Don't Have a Cyber-Incident Response Plan"

    The increase in ransomware and other attacks has made organizations prioritize cybersecurity more. However, a new study found that 36 percent of mid-sized organizations lack a formal incident response plan. According to Egnyte's report, which is based on…

  • "Aon Hack Exposed Sensitive Information of 146,000 Customers"

    Aon recently disclosed that 145,889 of its North American customers had their sensitive information exposed in a significant data breach.  The British multinational financial services firm that sells a range of risk-mitigation products stated that…

  • "HTML Attachments Found to Be the Most Malicious Type of File"

    Findings from the IT security firm Barracuda Networks reveal that adversaries use HTML attachments the most in cyberattacks. Olesia Klevchuk, Principal Product Marketing Manager for email security at Barracuda Networks, pointed out that these attacks are…

  • "Fortinet Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Several Products"

    Fortinet recently published security advisories to inform customers about vulnerabilities affecting several of the company's products.  The cybersecurity firm's latest batch of monthly advisories describes roughly a dozen vulnerabilities identified…

  • "10 Vulnerabilities Found in Widely Used Robustel Industrial Routers"

    Security researchers at Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence and research unit have identified several critical vulnerabilities in a widely used industrial cellular IoT gateway made by Chinese company Robustel.  The affected product is the R1510 router…

  • "Stealthy Cyber-Campaign Ditches Cobalt Strike for Rival 'Brute Ratel' Pen Test Tool"

    In a new campaign, hackers are abandoning the Cobalt Strike post-exploitation toolkit in favor of Brute Ratel C4 (BRc4). BRc4 is the latest upstart in the world of red-team tooling. It is an adversarial attack simulation tool designed for penetration…

  • "New Stealthy OrBit Malware Steals Data From Linux Devices"

    A newly discovered Linux malware, dubbed OrBit by Intezer Labs, is being used to steal information from backdoored Linux systems and infect all running processes. OrBit hijacks shared libraries to intercept function calls by modifying the LD PRELOAD…

  • "Experts Uncover 350 Browser Extension Variants Used in ABCsoup Adware Campaign"

    Russian users of Google Chrome, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox browsers are the target of an adware campaign involving a malicious browser extension with 350 variations disguising itself as a Google Translate add-on. The extensions are installed onto a…

  • "QNAP Issues Warning on New NAS-Targeting Checkmate Malware"

    Customers of the network-attached storage (NAS) company QNAP were urged to safeguard their equipment from cyberattacks involving the data-encrypting Checkmate ransomware. Attacks are mostly focused on accounts with weak passwords that are easy targets…

  • "How Daycare Apps Can Spy on Parents and Children"

    Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Westfälische Hochschule, and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, in collaboration with an industry partner, analyzed the security and privacy of 42 daycare apps from Europe and the…