GoDaddy employees duped in cryptocurrency hack Social engineering was used to trick GoDaddy employees into transferring ownership and control over several cryptocurrency domains. This attack, which, according to Krebs on Security, happened on November 13, is the latest in a…

Worldwide campaign targets ZeroLogon exploit Security researchers at Symantec have documented companies in 17 regions being impacted by this campaign across automotive, pharmaceutical, engineering, and the managed service provider industries. The campaign has been linked back to the Cicada threat…

Trump’s tweets to lose protected status post-presidency US President Donald J. Trump isn’t like the rest of us, and he doesn’t play by the same rules, Twitter has acknowledged. Whereas you or I could have been banned for some of…

Trump fires CISA director Chris Krebs Krebs served as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) since its founding in November 2018. Mr. Trump fired him in a tweet late on Tuesday, citing a statement published by…

Apple responds to macOS privacy concerns Apple’s Gatekeeper security service was first released on Mac’s in 2012, and “performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer’s signing certificate is revoked.” Last week, the…

Qualcomm receives U.S. permission to sell 4G chips to Huawei Qualcomm Inc on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, an exemption to U.S. trade restrictions imposed…

Finland pushes through change to ID code law  The Finish government said it was preparing new legislation to allow citizens to change their personal identity codes in cases of data breaches that carry a high risk of identity theft. The…

Facebook extends ban on political ads In the announcement, the social network said that the ban would extend for another month. Facebook cited the delays in election results for extending the ad moratorium. The company did say there may be…

Biden aide Bill Russo attacks Facebook’s post-election role Mr. Russo, who is deputy press secretary to the US president-elect tweeted that Facebook is not doing enough to rein in pages that promoted conspiracy theories, calls to violence and disinformation in…

Inrupt launches enterprise privacy platform In 2017, Tim Berners-Lee launched a company called Inrupt to market products that used the open-source Solid system. Monday, Inrupt announced an enterprise product to let developers  build apps that use Solid’s Personal Online Data…