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Information security service experts report that a Florida city agreed to pay a ransom of about $600,000 to a hacker group that took control of its computer systems; thousands of similar incidents have recently been reported around the world. Riviera Beach City Council decided, by unanimous vote, to yield to the demands of hackers, as […]
Perhaps many have not thought about it, but websites security experts claim that celebrities are frequent victims of hackers and online extortionists. A few days ago the music group Radiohead was the victim of a hacker who stole unpublished material; now, it is actress Bella Thorne who has suffered an extortion attempt. A hacker threatened […]
Medical services collection company American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) has just filed for bankruptcy after data breach reported a few days ago, web applications security audits specialists report. Reportedly, AMCA was hacked for about nine months, a fact that compromised the confidential information of AMCA’s business customers, including major industry companies such as Quest Diagnostics, […]
Digital forensics services researchers warn that Linux and FreeBSD operating systems contain vulnerabilities that allow hackers to remotely lock servers and disrupt admins’ communications. Operating system distributors have recommended that users install update patches as soon as they are released or otherwise modify the necessary settings to reduce the risk of exploitation. According to digital […]
Let’s justify the heading with this example. In the world of technology, floppy disks, beta max, and portable PDAs we have bid goodbye to them. Remember at one time it was an innovative technology, and today it is replaced by something better: the place of diskettes was taken by hard drives, external drives, USB drives […]
Facebook just revealed details about Libra, the company’s cryptocurrency that will allow users to make purchases or make transfers with fees close to zero. According to cybersecurity experts, Libra may be purchased or withdrawn online or at specific exchange points. The company today launched Libra’s white paper, in addition to announcing its testing network to […]
Cybersecurity isn’t easy. If there was a product or service you could buy that would just magically solve all of your cybersecurity problems, everyone would buy that thing, and we could all rest easy. However, that is not the way it works. Technology continues to evolve. Cyber attackers adapt and develop new malicious tools and […]
Cybersecurity researchers have released an updated version of GandCrab ransomware decryption tool that could allow millions of affected users to unlock their encrypted files for free without paying a ransom to the cybercriminals. GandCrab is one of the most prolific families of ransomware to date that has infected over 1.5 million computers since it first […]
Cybercriminals try to find all ways to circumvent security solutions and the defensive measures adopted by organizations, and hence it is always important that business organizations have dedicated professionals to take care of cybersecurity. It’s often the CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) who is in charge of cybersecurity for most organizations. But in today’s context, […]
A few days ago, information security specialists reported a massive data breach in American Medical Collections Agency (AMCA) that affected nearly 20 million patients in U.S. clinical companies; according to experts, records of credit cards and stolen clinical details may be sold for negligible amounts (less than $50 USD). What is the reason for the […]
Cybersecurity services specialists report the discovery of two vulnerabilities in Windows CE-operated Alaris Gateway workstations that support infusion pumps; according to the reports, if these flaws are exploited they could allow a remote threat actor to disable one of these pumps, inject malware, modify the information or even alter the dose of medication that these […]
Symantec, the information security services industry giant, minimized a data breach incident that, according to cybersecurity specialists would have allowed a threat actor to access the company’s passwords and a list of customers, including prominent private companies and government institutions in Australia. In this list of organizations working with Symantec are the main departments of […]
The Philadelphia online court system has been closed for a month due to a virus that has interrupted access to the network, report specialists from the IICS’s cybersecurity course. “Suddenly the systems started to fail, I even thought the problem was on my computer”, said one of the system managers. This incident, in addition to […]
According to information security services specialists, the music group Radiohead was the victim of a group of hackers which somehow managed to steal a set of archived sessions of the band in recent days, threatening to publish them if they did not receive a $150k USD ransom. However, instead of paying the ransom or trying […]
Nowadays all our activities highly depend on the Internet that includes shopping financial services, communication, entertainment and number of other services. The Internet empowers several techniques; on the other hand, it poses certain dangers. According to the recent reports, we can see a massive increase in various threats and the sophistication method followed by the […]
Cyberattacks have increased on an unprecedented scale. Reasons are many. The main reason obviously is our increasing dependence on computing devices (computers, smartphones etc) and the internet for our day-to-day needs. It’s today a world of quickly evolving technologies. The technology that we depend on today has interconnectedness as one of its salient features. This, […]
Two severe vulnerabilities in the popular open source multimedia player VLC have recently been corrected. According to experts in web security audit, one is a buffer overflow flaw and the other is an out-of-bond write vulnerability that had been corrected as part of a European Commission-funded bug bounty program. In January, the European Union, in […]
Website security specialists reported a data breach incident at Emuparadise, a videogame discussion forum that used to work as an emulator web portal, which affects over a million accounts from the website forums. The news even appears in Have I Been Pwned, a platform that verifies the security status of the websites, which has also […]
Blockchain Technology and the evolution of the digital world has led to a sizeable outbreak of sophisticated cyber attacks, with attackers continually refining their methods to find new vulnerabilities and chinks in the armor of organizations of all shapes and sizes. Hackers enjoy getting their hands on sensitive data, but an almost impenetrable technology, known as […]
Convenience vs Security, that is the frequently recurring theme when it comes to cybersecurity nowadays. Every time a new technology opens its doors to more convenience is when it becomes the new kid on the block when it comes to vulnerabilities. Here in hackercombat.com, we are eager to tell you over-and-over again our dear readers […]
Personal data of nearly 200,000 students and staff members of the Australian National University were in a “sophisticated” cyber-attack. The trend shows that a similar breach happened to the Chinese government last year. The university admitted that hackers were stealing data dating back 19 years and included banking information, passport information, as well as past […]