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President Donald Trump has recently fired his head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Christopher Krebs was heading up the federal government's election cybersecurity efforts but was recently fired via Twitter by the president. Krebs began to be a target of Trump's after the November 3rd election. Kreb's agency runs a Rumor Control blog, which has a list of reputed claims about election fraud and hacking. Many of these claims, however, have been stated...

Smartworld, one of the UAE’s leading technology providers, has today announced that it has joined the EMEA Partner Programme of Menlo Security, Inc. (Menlo Security™), provider of the world's first and only Cloud Security Platform built on an Isolation Core™. The Partnership provides UAE organizations the most effective way to eliminate all internet threats while protecting business and user productivity unlike traditional “detect and response” approaches that don’t protect against modern day threats such as...

On Monday Twitter assigned Pieter Zatko, also known by his hacker handle name Mudge, as their new head of security. Zatko will be responsible for recommending changes in the structure and functions of the social media giant. Zatko is under a 40 to 60-day review and will be reporting to Twitter's CEO, Jack Dorsey, during this time. During his residency in this role, Zatko will be taking over management of key functions. In an interview,...

A report by Motherboard says that the US military has been mining data from the Muslim prayer app, Muslim Pro. Muslim Pro is one of the "most popular Muslim apps", boasting over 98 million downloads. The app reminds users of their daily prayers and provides them with readings from the Quran. The app also tracks users' locations with this data sold to brokers. One of the buyers of the app's data is reportedly the US...

Microsoft has recently alerted governments across the globe that the North Korean hacker groups Cerium and Zinc, as well as the Russian hacker group Strontium, have been targeting organisations involved in COVID-19 vaccine research using brute-force, credential stuffing and spear-phishing attacks. Tom Burt, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for Customer Security & Trust, said in a blog post that nation-state actors have been targetting research organisations in France, Canada, South Korea, India, and the United States....

Coveware, the ransomware negotiation firm, have recently placed DarkSide operation on an internal restricted list following the threat actor's announcement to host infrastructure in Iran. DarkSide ransomware operation usually encrypts a network from which their affiliates will steal an unencrypted file from, which they will then threaten to release if their ransom is not paid. Therefore, their recent announcement for operations in Iran has caused concern among industry key figures.

Pluto TV are an online TV provider who offers ad-supported channels for various topics such as gaming, as well as real-life networks, such as NBC. Unfortunately, Pluto TV has recently suffered a security breach, affecting the millions of accounts linked to the platform since 2018, with the details for these accounts now available online. The hacking group ShinyHunters instigated the breach, and they have previously released the customer records of over 17 other companies and...

The World Economic Forum and the University of Oxford have published a 14-month long study examining the shift in technology and the impact it will have on the cybersecurity industry. The study is based on the expertise of over 100 leaders in the cybersecurity space, including those in businesses, government, civil society and academia. The study reports that the future of the cybersecurity industry, as well as that of everyone's personal data, relies on four...

Cybercriminal groups are scaling up their operations. According to BleepingComputer, the DarkSide Ransomware operation have claimed they are creating a distributed storage system in Iran to store and leak data stolen from victims. Since double-extortion ransomware became threat actors' attack of choice, law enforcement and security firms have been actively searching the stolen data in order to disrupt extortion demands. "Ransomware gangs are increasingly copying the models used by legitimate businesses. From Ransomware and Phishing-as-a-Service, it...

Research has revealed that the likes of Costco, Walmart and The Home Depot are more at risk to web-based cyberattacks then compared to their EU counterparts, according to findings from Outpost24. In a year that saw a global pandemic leading to a 30% surge in online shopping and exponential growth in cybersecurity threats for enterprises, Outpost24 analysed the web application attack surface for 20 of the biggest retailers in Europe and the US to evaluate...