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Qatar Spyware
PRIVACY PRIVACY Everyone visiting Qatar for the World Cup needs to install spyware on their phone. Everyone travelling to Qatar during the football World Cup will be asked to download two apps called Ehteraz and Hayya. Briefly, Ehteraz is an covid-19 tracking app, while Hayya is an official World Cup app used to keep track…
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European Police Catch Suspected Car Hackers
PRIVACY PRIVACY Gang exploited keyless entry systems to steal vehicles Read More
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Wine Merchant Among Aussie Firms Breached, Exposing Millions
PRIVACY PRIVACY Vinomofo the latest to suffer a serious security incident Read More
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Halloween feature: Cheat codes for Cybersecurity and preventing kids from being “tricked”
PRIVACY PRIVACY This guest blog was written by an independent guest blogger. He is a high school freshman with some fresh perspective. October and Halloween are both fun and scary, just like cyberspace. Cyber Security Awareness Month is an excellent time for grown-ups to discuss cyber safety with us. It takes an informed cyber village…
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Pro-Russia Hackers DDoS Bulgarian Government
PRIVACY PRIVACY Killnet reportedly claims responsibility once again Read More
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Altruism under attack: why cybersecurity has become essential to humanitarian nonprofits
PRIVACY PRIVACY Humanitarian initiatives have always been of huge global importance, but perhaps never more so than over the past few years. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented shifts in weather patterns limiting resource availability and triggering mass migration, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and some of the largest rises in living costs for decades…
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BrandPost: Why Ease-of-Use is Central to Better Security
PRIVACY PRIVACY Here is an old joke from my days as a consultant. A customer asked, “How can I be sure my computer is protected from viruses?” My admittedly sarcastic response was that they should disconnect it from the network. Unplugging devices from the network has never been a practical solution, then or now. The…
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‘Prestige’ Ransomware Group Targets Organizations in Ukraine and Poland
PRIVACY PRIVACY The campaign had several features differentiating it from other ransomware tracked by Microsoft Read More
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Amazon Customers Receive Smishing Warning After Receiving Fake Texts
PRIVACY PRIVACY Which? said it has reported the fake URLs to the National Cyber Security Centre Read More
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Hacking Automobile Keyless Entry Systems
PRIVACY PRIVACY Suspected members of a European car-theft ring have been arrested: The criminals targeted vehicles with keyless entry and start systems, exploiting the technology to get into the car and drive away. As a result of a coordinated action carried out on 10 October in the three countries involved, 31 suspects were arrested. A…