Tag Archives: cybersecurity

Eurofins, a UK-based forensics provider, recently announced that its voluntary ‘lockdown’ had been lifted. On the 2nd of June, the company’s servers got encrypted by a “highly sophisticated ransomware.” Albeit a rumor, it would see that Eurofins had no choice but to pay the ransom in order to regain access …

On Tuesday, a transnational cybersecurity company has trumped the discovery of a trailblazing Mac malware. According to Joshua Long, one of the online researchers who rooted out this second-gen ‘Mac-blaster”, revealed that this type of malware is quite unique, but very dangerous nonetheless. Intego’s Proof-of-Concept showed that the exploit could …

Medtronic, the medical company which manufactures wireless insulin pumps, has just made the public aware of its intentions of recalling some 4,000 products. In an official communiqué, Medtronic declared that recalled models were found to be susceptible to outside tampering. US’s Food and Drug Administration has also urged customers to …

And on the next episode of “hope in humanity lost for good,” I give you the story of an unknown hacker who hijacked a grieving support Facebook page just for the fun of it. According to Lynda Cheldelin Fell, Grief the Unspoken’s page manager and published author, the breach first …

Remember that old saying: “if you can’t beat them, join them.” Well, as far as cyber warfare is concerned, the hackers have turned this rusty saying into a credo. In an article published on The Next Web, Isaac Ben-Israel, ICRC’s director and the Chairman of Cyber Week, noted that AI …

It would appear that gathering real-time info is becoming increasingly difficult. Microsoft recently joined the traffic tracking crusade with its latest Canary update. When this option is switched on, companies and online advertisers will not be able to track your activity – good news for users who value their privacy, …

Still worried about your business email being hacked? Well, worry no more, because Google has recently released a couple of security updates for its G-Suite Enterprise and G-Suite Enterprise for Education products. According to the company’s statement, G Suite administrators will be able to bypass the usual security measure using …

This week the University of Tel Aviv will be the host of Cyber Week 2019 or, as I like to call it, the E3 of cybersecurity. The event will bring together the very best that online security has to offer – speakers, events, workshops, and more. For those of you …

We really don’t need to fear the little green man with lasers when we’ve got a bigger threat right here, on earth. A recently published report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General reveals that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s IT infrastructure has been compromised in early April 2018. The investigators discovered …

A new and insightful paper from Positive Technologies reveals that about 50 percent of Android apps are vulnerable to malware. Furthermore, as the paper states, the hacker doesn’t need to be in proximity to the device nor be around the device.  Differences in security between iOS and Android appear to …