US pins SolarWinds attack on Cozy Bear, boots 10 Russian diplomats US and UK intelligence agencies have pinned the sprawling SolarWinds attack on Russia’s intelligence service. In a joint advisory posted on Thursday, they urged organizations to patch the top…
Office 365 phishing hides behind HTML that stacks up like Legos A recent phishing campaign used hidden building blocks of HTML code, stored both locally and remotely, to build a site that collects Microsoft Office 365 credentials. The code is…
$3 will get you private webcam feeds sold as home video tapes Thieves are selling private videos stolen from people’s home security cameras or from cameras secretly installed in public places. According to an undercover report carried out by Henan…
How many types of digital fraud are there? Might as well count the shades of color in a rainbow, says Dan Woods, vice president of F5 Networks’ Shape Intelligence Center: “I’d say they’re infinite.” The list of fraud that hits…
SCOTUS: Facebook’s still on the hook for nonconsensual user tracking On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to hear Facebook’s bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking internet users even when they’re…
Over $4.2 billion in cybercrime losses reported to FBI in 2020 Cyber crooks went on a crime spree last year, bilking us out of 20% more money than the year before. According to the annual report from the FBI’s Internet…
Raided phone network Sky ECC says no, police didn’t break our encryption On Wednesday, European police said they had arrested at least 80 people and carried out hundreds of raids after having shut down an encrypted phone network favored by…
Fake (right-wing) news does better than real news on Facebook Fake news gets more engagement than real news on Facebook, but only if it’s coming from the right-wing. Researchers at the Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University found…
Biden orders review of supply chain security The president’s executive order has a few goals: to address shortages of critical imported components such as batteries and pharmaceuticals, to wean the country off semiconductors manufactured overseas, and to review the security…
Dating-app video calls could have been spied on A vulnerability in an SDK that lets users make video calls in dating and healthcare apps could have let creeps spy on private calls.The affected dating apps include eHarmony and Plenty of…
