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Italy Warns Organizations of Incoming DDoS Attacks
Italy Warns Organizations of Incoming DDoS Attacks
Italy’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) has issued an urgent alert on Monday to raise awareness about the high risk of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against national entities. “There continue to be...
Former US Marine Faces 15 Year Prison Sentence for Cyberstalking and Extorting Young Women
Former US Marine Faces 15 Year Prison Sentence for Cyberstalking and Extorting Young Women
A former US Marine has pleaded guilty to cyberstalking multiple young women in California in a sexual extortion campaign. According to court documents, California resident Johao Miguel Chavarri (also known as Michael Frito) allege...
Interview With Limecraft – Maarten Verwaest
Interview With Limecraft – Maarten Verwaest
Maarten Verwaest, one of the co-founders and CEO of Limecraft, told Aviva Zacks of Safety Detectives about his company’s audiovisual asset management services. Aviva: What motivated you and your co-founders to start your company?...
Ransomware Attack Forces New Jersey County to Use Paper Records
Ransomware Attack Forces New Jersey County to Use Paper Records
A ransomware attack on the Somerset County government in New Jersey froze email communications and forced staff to use paper records for some services. In a notice posted to its news site last week, county officials said a ransomw...
Turkish Based Airline’s Sensitive EFB Data Leaked
Turkish Based Airline’s Sensitive EFB Data Leaked
EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) information, including sensitive flight details, source code, and staff data, was left accessible. An AWS S3 bucket containing Pegasus Airlines’ “Electronic Flight Bag” (EFB) information was left withou...
Google: Predator Spyware Used Zero-Day Vulnerabilities to Infect Android Devices
Google: Predator Spyware Used Zero-Day Vulnerabilities to Infect Android Devices
State-sponsored actors have exploited five zero-day vulnerabilities to infect devices with Predator spyware, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) disclosed in a security report last week. The attacks were part of three malicious s...
FTC Fines Twitter $150M For Using Customer's Phone Numbers for Ad Revenue
FTC Fines Twitter $150M For Using Customer's Phone Numbers for Ad Revenue
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the US Department of Justice (DoJ) have ordered Twitter to pay a $150 million penalty for using customers’ phone numbers to target them with ads without explicitly saying so. The FTC said on...
Ransomware Attack Left Indian Airline Passengers Stranded
Ransomware Attack Left Indian Airline Passengers Stranded
Indian budget airline SpiceJet says that an “attempted ransomware attack” against its IT infrastructure caused flights to be delayed or canceled and left passengers stranded. Flights with the airline were disrupted by the cyber at...
DuckDuckGo Allows Microsoft Trackers on its Web Browser due to Search Agreement
DuckDuckGo Allows Microsoft Trackers on its Web Browser due to Search Agreement
DuckDuckGo’s web browser now allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement in the syndicated search content contract between the two companies. While DuckDuckGo does not store any personal identifiers with you...
Man Jailed for Hacking the Emails of Female Students, Stealing and Trading their Private Photos
Man Jailed for Hacking the Emails of Female Students, Stealing and Trading their Private Photos
A man was sentenced last week to over 9 years in jail after he was found guilty of breaking into the email accounts of his female classmates, and stealing their private nude photographs and videos. Michael Fish, 26, of Albany, N.Y...