Jun 30, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
What is the price for personal information, including credit cards and bank accounts, on the dark web? Privacy Affairs researchers concluded criminals using the dark web need only spend $1,115 for a complete set of a person’s account details, enabling them to create...
Jun 29, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
According to Wikipedia, the first known non fungible token (NFT) was created in 2014 and the first NFT project was launched in late 2015. It took a few more years and more projects for the concept to trickle into the consciousness of the general public, and then a few...
Jun 28, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Last week threat actors have stolen $100 million in cryptocurrency from the Blockchain company Harmony. The company reported the incident to the authorities, the FBI is investigating the cyber heist with the help of several cybersecurity firms. Harmony’s Horizon...
Jun 27, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ransomware has been a thorn in the side of cybersecurity teams for years. With the move to remote and hybrid work, this insidious threat has become even more of a challenge for organizations everywhere. 2021 was a case study in ransomware due to the wide variety of...
Jun 24, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor codenamed ToddyCat has been linked to a string of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. The relatively new adversarial collective is said to have commenced its operations by...
Jun 23, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cybersecurity is important for businesses of any size – even small ones. Here’s some pitfalls to avoid. For small businesses, cyberattacks might sound like something they don’t need to think about. Because cyber criminals only go after big, lucrative...
Jun 22, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Updated: Web domains and apps failed to connect on Tuesday morning, but the company says it has implemented a fix and is monitoring results. Cloudflare has apologized for an outage on Tuesday morning, tracing the problem to a configuration change during network...
Jun 21, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
HR consulting firm Robert Half has started informing customers that their personal and financial information might have been compromised after hackers targeted their RobertHalf.com accounts. Information provided by the company to the Maine Attorney General shows that...
Jun 20, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
A researcher has created a website that uses your installed Google Chrome extensions to generate a fingerprint of your device that can be used to track you online. To track users on the web, it is possible to create fingerprints, or tracking hashes, based on various...
Jun 17, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Mozilla says that all Firefox users will now be protected by default against cross-site tracking while browsing the Internet. This is because, starting today, Mozilla is rolling out and enabling its Total Cookie Protection set of privacy improvements for all Firefox...
Jun 16, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
An international law enforcement operation, codenamed ‘First Light 2022,’ has seized 50 million dollars and arrested thousands of people involved in social engineering scams worldwide. The operation was led by Interpol with the assistance of police in 76...
Jun 15, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Security researchers have uncovered a large-scale malicious operation that uses trojanized mobile cryptocurrency wallet applications for Coinbase, MetaMask, TokenPocket, and imToken services. The malicious activity has been identified earlier this year in March....
Jun 14, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Zscaler released the findings of its annual ThreatLabz Ransomware Report, which revealed an 80 percent increase in ransomware attacks year-over-year. In 2022, the most prevalent ransomware trends include double-extortion, supply chain attacks, ransomware-as-a-service,...
Jun 13, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
For small businesses, cyberattacks might sound like something they don’t need to think about. Why? Because cyber criminals only go after big, lucrative targets? Why would they target a small business? The unfortunate truth is that small businesses can make very...
Jun 10, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Any new technology that can offer benefits to the world has the potential to be abused by bad actors for their own personal gain. While cryptocurrency-based crime remains an important problem to solve, especially given that the raw value of illicit transactions is...
Jun 9, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
The next Mac operating system is macOS Ventura. Apple on Monday during its WWDC keynote took the wraps off of macOS 13 Ventura, the next major version of the Mac operating system. A beta test version of Ventura is available to developers now, with a public beta coming...
Jun 8, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
The latest OS updates drop support for a surprising number of devices It’s always exciting when Apple announces the latest version of iOS or macOS. Not only are there a bunch of new features to try, but it’s a good way to get an old device running like new again by...
Jun 7, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Upon being alerted by security researcher Anurag Sen, the company rubbished the sensitivity of the matter by labeling the exposed database as “an insignificant one.” Anurag Sen, a prominent IT security researcher has shared exclusive information with Hackread.com...
Jun 6, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Facebook has a shaky reputation when it comes to privacy, but it’s a useful tool for keeping in touch with friends and family. If you’re going to use the social network, there are a few things you can do to lock things down as much as possible. Consider What (and How)...
Jun 1, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Vishing (voice phishing) cases have increased almost 550 percent over the last twelve months (Q1 2022 to Q1 2021), according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from Agari and PhishLabs. In Q1 2022, Agari and PhishLabs detected and...