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New mac crypto-ransomware has no decryption ability so paying is pointless
A new macintosh ransomware variant found packaged in software supposed to 'crack' or give you access to free editions of paid software, has no ability to decrypt the files it has encoded. While an infected mac user might make a payment, that there is no way to get...
Arby’s investigates possible credit card data breach
Hundreds of thousands of people may have had their credit card data hacked into after buying Arby's fast food. The restaurant found that its computer systems and tills in some US stores were breached by malware, that allows attackers to remotely steal data from each...
InterContinental Hotel Group Confirms Data Breach at 12 Hotels
In late December 2016, we revealed that IHG had hired a security consultant to investigate whether they had been subject of a data-breach. Now we can confirm that the data breach is verified by IHG themselves in a press release issued late last Friday. IHG said it...
Windows Defender Shows a Warning with a Third Party Antivirus
In recent Windows Updates, there have been some changes to how Microsoft's own Antivirus, Windows Defender behaves on your system. The theory is, that if you have no antivirus, or Windows Defender is turned of, then it will remind you that this is the case, so that...
Texas Police Department Loses Evidence in Ransomware Attack
The Police Department in Cockrell Hill, Texas has admitted in a press release that they have lost years worth of evidence after the department's server was encrypted in a ransomware attack. Lost evidence included all body camera video, some in-car video, some in-house...
New Spora Ransomware Detected and on the Increase
G-Data recently published an analysis of a new ransomware called Spora, that appeared in January. It was first spotted by the folks over at ID Ransomware, and was mainly affecting Russian users, but it is venturing out into other areas of the globe now. Spora function...
Multiple Critical Apple Software Updates Issued Today
Apple has today issued multiple critical software updates from WatchOS, Safari and iOS which fix a variety of security holes as well as to introduce new features. With these releases, Apple fixed 56 vulnerabilities, with many of these vulnerabilities being shared over...
Cyber Incidents Hit 85% Of Firms Over Past 12 Months
Kroll is reporting that 85% of executives say they were hit with a cyber incident in the past year in their 2016/2017 Kroll Annual Global Fraud and Risk Report. Malicious insiders post the biggest threat. 33% of survey respondents suffered one or more virus attacks...
Data breach numbers reach all-time record high, increasing by 40% in 2016
U.S. data breaches tracked in 2016 hit an all-time record high of 1,093, according to a new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) and CyberScout (formerly IDT911). “With support from CyberScout, the ITRC has been able to heighten its efforts in tracking...
Gmail hack: Even savvy users fooled by sophisticated phishing technique
Even tech-savvy Gmail users are falling victim to hackers who are stealing their login credentials as increasingly sophisticated phishing techniques are being employed. How does it work? The hacker first sends you an email, which includes an attachment. If you click...
Privacy Matters: How to Opt-Out of FamilyTreeNow.com
By now you may have heard about a website called 'FamilyTreeNow.com' where anyone can track down your address, and former addresses. They can also see relatives and all sorts of personal details. This site is masquerading as a 'free family tree' website, but the...
Do the Update Dance: Adobe, Microsoft Push Critical Security Fixes
In the regular dance we like to call the 'Update Dance', Microsoft and Adobe each released security updates on Tuesday for software installed on hundreds of millions of computers. Adobe issued an update for both Flash Player and Acrobat/Reader. Microsoft released four...
US college pays $28k to get files back after ransomware attack
Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) has paid a public record of $28,000 in Bitcoin to extortionists after ransomware encrypted hundreds of thousands of files held on its servers. In a public statement shared on the College’s homepage, LAVC said the unnamed ransomware...
MongoDB Ransomware: Number of Compromised Databases Doubles in One Day
MongoDB is a powerful, flexible and scalable general-purpose database. It is an agile database that allows schemas to change quickly as applications evolve. It is a NoSql Database. It is being held ransom by a MongoDB Ransomware, and the number of compromised database...
Hello Kitty Breach: Stolen details of 3.3m Hello Kitty fans – including kids – published online
A year ago it was announced that 3.3 million database of Hello Kitty fans got exposed. Just over a year later, that status changes to exposed, stolen and published online. This has become a full-on 'Hello Kitty Breach'. Back in December 2015, Sanrio – the company the...
FTC Accuses D-Link of Unsecure Routers and IP Cameras
The Federal Trade Commission has voiced concerns in US district court that D-Link products have put consumers' privacy at risk. In what amounts to a very public rebuke of a company, the US Government department has filed a complaint in a US district court against the...
US warns of ‘imminent’ cyber-attack threat on electrical grid
An Energy Department report seeks new powers to deal with attacks and other emergencies. The reports that Russian computer attackers had hacked a Vermont electrical utility company have turned out to be baseless, but the nation's grid is in "imminent danger" of very...
Cyber Education for Children: Lessons in Online Safety are Essential
The Children’s Commissioner for England has called for more to be done to help educate children in online safety in a new study titled Growing Up Digital.
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