Cyberattack on N-plant: What really happened?
NEW DELHI: After a day of denial, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India admitted on Wednesday that a malware attack had hit the NPCIL system + at the Nuclear Power …
Month: November 2019
Malware Meets Politics With Trump and Clinton Themed Infections
Just as people express their political views through art, malware developers express their political ideologies, hopes, and frustrations through the computer infections they create. While investigating a recent malspam campaign, …
Israeli spyware: WhatsApp hack raises global fears
In the middle of October this year, the world’s biggest messaging platform, WhatsApp, started sending out alerts to select users advising them that their security had been compromised. The messages …
California DMV data breach left drivers’ Social Security numbers exposed: report
Fox News Flash top headlines for Nov. 6 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.comThousands of California drivers had their Social Security numbers exposed in a data breach that …
BlueKeep Panic as RCE RDP Exploit Floods the Net
BlueKeep, a nasty vulnerability in RDP, by now should have been patched everywhere. Sadly, back in the real world, hundreds of thousands of unpatched hosts are connected to the internet. …
How Do You Ensure You Are Protected
It’s often said that if you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. And it would be comforting if that was true, but in a world dominated by Big …
Vulnerability in Asus Wi-Fi software put users at risk of fraud and robbery
Researchers have discovered a data leak in Asus Wi-Fi software which would’ve given hackers unprecedented access to users’ networks and made it possible to hijack smart home devices like Amazon’s …
Experts: Don’t reboot your computer after you’ve been infected with ransomware
Security experts don’t recommend that users reboot their computers after suffering a ransomware infection, as this could help the malware in certain circumstances. Instead, experts recommend that victims hibernate the …
Top 5 additional ways to fend off ransomware
In 2019, 23 city governments in Texas experienced a coordinated ransomware attack. Tom Merritt explains how they defended themselves and ways you can protect your own business. You have heard …
Government of Nunavut falls victim to a ransomware attack
The Government of Nunavut is the latest victim of a sophisticated ransomware attack. In an official statement, the Premier of Nunavut, Joe Savikataaq, stated he noticed a new and advanced …
