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Under “usual circumstances,” AWS makes headlines for exposing databases of companies using its services. A few days ago (Oct 22, 2019), the world’s large cloud services provider – Amazon Web Services (AWS) – was hit by a series of DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) resulting in portions of it going offline for several hours. […]
Australia Holds World’s First Hackathon to Find Missing Persons. Whether hacking can be ethical or not, it is still a debatable point but law enforcement agencies in Australia have come up with an interesting new way to utilize hackers’ skills for societal welfare. Reportedly, Australian Federal Police took 354 hackers and investigators from all over […]
“There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story is a confession, then so is mine.” – Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now. 16:05, Atrium Bar President Hotel, London – Having spent a quarter of a century in information technology and thirteen years in one uniform or another […]
00:35 Ministry of Sound, London, UK – We all know what professional development is; I am going to talk about going to the opposite: professional degeneration. If you ask mid-and-advanced-career information security professionals about their jobs in information security, most of them may not express the kindest sentiments. That might be a gross understatement – […]
The popularity of vaping has been increasing over the past years. Many people that used to smoke traditional cigarettes are now switching to vaping. Some people have even argued that vaping can help a person stop smoking. Some proponents of vaping argue that the practice is less dangerous when compared to smoking conventional tobacco. However, […]
The prime suspect of the DDoS attack is China. An online forum used by activists behind the ongoing Hong Kong protests has suffered a DDoS attack forcing its servers to go offline for a short period of time. The targeted website called LIHKG, is a popular platform in Hong Kong often referred to as Reddit’s […]
Google and Facebook are ultra-successful giants in their respective fields. Facebook has over 2.3 billion monthly active users and Google has around 2 billion. The search engine helps millions of people connect with businesses and interact with them. Facebook helps people around the world connect by letting them make profiles, post pictures, and videos, create […]
MegaCortex ransomware was discovered in May this year. iNSYNQ, a United States-based Cloud hosting provider has been hit by a massive ransomware attack crippling its cyberinfrastructure preventing customers from accessing their accounting data. It must be noted that iNSYNQ provides cloud-based QuickBooks accounting software and services. The ransomware attack, according to iNSYNQ, took place on […]
And Again About Hosting Security! Today, there are still many people who think that the Internet is as a comprehensive encyclopedia of the world. However, their number is decreasing. There are more and more people who rightfully consider the Internet as a means of earning money. It can attract a large number of new customers […]
Cybereason, an Israeli-US security firm based in Boston, has reported that certain nation-state hackers managed to compromise the systems of no less than ten cellular carriers across the globe to steal metadata of specific users. Without naming anyone, the company claims that the targeted users and the attackers both belong to China. The campaign is […]
I have read a couple of books recently about different vulnerabilities in order to be able to better protect my projects/websites. Today, I want to share a story about how I managed to use this knowledge in practice. Disclaimer This material is posted for educational purposes only. The author is not responsible for its usage […]
It is unclear why Telegram was targeted or who was behind the DDoS attack. The popular privacy-focused instant messaging application service Telegram has suffered a massive DDoS attack in which its service in the United States and several other countries has been disrupted, the company has revealed. The DDoS attack began targeting Telegram’s servers around […]
Is Internet filtering at the state level good or bad? As always, there are different opinions. I do not want to give a definite answer to this question now. On the one hand, the degree of filtering and the profile of filtering can be different, on the other hand, partly the answer to this question […]
Cyber attacks are on the rise and it isn’t just the large corporations who are targeted, anyone who does anything online is at risk of being exposed or hacked. The problem with digital crimes is that the culprit could be continents away. However, it isn’t just the hackers that you need to be wary of. […]
Clinical laboratory firm Quest Diagnostics Inc. has admitted exposure of personal information of nearly 11.9 million customers after its web payment page was accessed by an unauthorized individual. In a press release, the company revealed that its billing system, which is managed by the Quest contractor called Optum360’s hired vendor American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), […]
Hackers managed to breach Flipboard’s security for sensitive database multiple times putting millions of users at risk. Just yesterday, it was reported that the online graphic-design tool website Canva had suffered a massive data breach in which a hacker stole over 139 million accounts of registered users. Now, the highly popular social sharing and news […]
A cyber attack can cripple critical infrastructure and businesses and generate negative press. In other cases, it could open you and your business to litigation. This and other factors can seriously hurt a business, and it forces many of them to pay for data recovery or IT security services to undo the damage. However, many […]
TeamViewer has only confirmed now that Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the company in 2016. The Germany-based company behind the world-famous remote desktop software TeamViewer has confirmed that in 2016 TeamViewer software was compromised. The confirmation comes right after the report published by Der Speigel, a German newspaper, regarding a successful cyber attack on TeamViewer. While […]
Based on security assessment results, penetration testers often recommend hiding an enterprise network’s ports behind a whitelist. However, corporate IT teams don’t always understand the need for such a countermeasure. Even some admins and DevOps specialists with tons of experience wonder why this is necessary. Let’s take a dive into the risks of keeping ports […]
Chinese hackers then used NSA’s hacking tools and technology to target American allies. Symantec researchers have discovered that in 2016, Chinese intelligence managed to repurpose hacking tools used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and exploit them to attack American private firms and allies across the globe. In the new report published by The New […]
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has allegedly attacked a building that serves as the hub of Hamas’s cyber operations on Saturday. The IDF claims that it has bombed the building after carrying out an operation in collaboration with the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Military Intelligence’s Unit 8200. It is also claimed by Israeli […]