September 3rd, 2021 by Admin
In the months and weeks leading up to the Tokyo Olympics, intelligence agencies and cybersecurity experts warned of the risks of cyberattacks and the need to exercise preventative measures to prevent the kinds of incidents we have seen in the previous Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, Sochi, Pyeongchang and London. Over the course of these games, it’s become increasingly clear that the organizers did indeed exercise preventative measures and that despite the challenges and limitations of holding an Olympics during a pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics have been a real success story from a cybersecurity perspective.
[ Source : securitymagazine ]
September 2nd, 2021 by Admin
A now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in WhatApp’s image filter feature could have been abused to send a malicious image over the messaging app to read sensitive information from the app’s memory. Cybersecurity firm Check Point Research, which disclosed the issue to the Facebook-owned platform on November 10, 2020, said it was able to crash WhatsApp by switching between various filters on the malicious GIF files.
[ Source : thehackernews ]
August 31st, 2021 by Admin
The stability of the global economy is under attack. While cyberattacks on the Colonial Pipeline, meat supplier JBS and SolarWinds have made big headlines, the truth is no business — from global conglomerates to young entrepreneurs operating out of their garages — is safe from cyberattacks. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, a business, consumer or device is attacked every 11 seconds and it’s only predicted to get worse. By 2031, they anticipate that rate increasing to every two seconds.
[ Source : Forbes ]
August 31st, 2021 by Admin
If you cast your mind back to early 2020, probably the main thing that you remember will be the launch of the Mobile Device Guidance. Since then we’ve been busy, migrating all our device-related content to the new format and, as of today, the collection will be known under the name – Device Security Guidance.
[Source : NCSC ]
August 31st, 2021 by Admin
The cybersecurity researchers at the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich have recently identified a critical vulnerability that allows any threat actor to bypass PIN codes on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro.
The most interesting and impactful thing is that on successful exploitation of this security flaw, a threat actor can easily abuse the stolen Mastercard and Maestro cards for contactless payments without having to provide any PIN codes.
[ Source : cybersecuritynews.com ]