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Katie Price has been forced to battle Facebook after hackers stole control of her account and changed it into a page for quotes and memes. The 41-year-old former glamour model has been locked out of her verified Katie Price account for weeks, and has accused mysterious repeat hackers of taking control of it for the third time. Katie's rep told Mirror Online: "She's been hacked - we've been trying to get it back via Facebook. Source: Mirror

New research has revealed 83 percent of IT security professionals feel more overworked going into 2020 than they were at the beginning of 2019, according to a Tripwire survey. The research, which was in partnership with Dimensional Research, examined how organisations and security pros are coping under the strains of the skills gap. Having surveyed 342 IT security professionals it was also found that 82 percent of security pros felt that their teams were understaffed....

Criminal groups are exploiting fears over the recent novel coronavirus outbreak in an email phishing campaign directed at the global shipping industry, according to a report issued Monday by a California-based cybersecurity firm. Source: Global News

Phishing emails have been uncovered that request a full rundown of personal data – even asking for photos of passports. A recently uncovered phishing campaign, targeting PayPal users, pulls out all the stops and asks victims for the complete spectrum of personal data – even going so far as to ask for social security numbers and uploaded photos of their passports. Source: Threat Post

The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) 54th Research Institute were charged for hacking the credit reporting agency Equifax in 2017. On January 28, 2020, a federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment alleging that Wu Zhiyong (吴志勇), Wang Qian (王乾), Xu Ke (许可), and Liu Lei (刘磊) broke into Equifax's computing systems and stole sensitive personal info of nearly half of all U.S. citizens and Equifax trade secrets. Source: Bleeping Computer

Facebook has been targeted by Saudi-based hacking collective OurMine after compromise of its Twitter and Instagram accounts. Red faces for security teams at both Twitter and Instagram, after the official accounts of Facebook and Messenger were briefly compromised on those platforms. Source: Silicon

As we all know, the world of cybersecurity is an ever-evolving, fast-growing industry that can be tough to follow at times. For example, we have seen a rapid upsurge in the use of smart devices and with that, an increased risk of cyberattacks. This has not been limited to private households either. Rather, the logistics industry and private vehicles are also at risk of being hacked. Indeed, as individuals and industries increasingly move online, this...

Following the recent opening of its headquarters in Ireland, OneLogin, a global leader in identity and access management, has appointed ex-DocuSign global information security business enablement director, Niamh Vianney Muldoon, as senior director of trust and security, EMEA. The appointment strengthens OneLogin’s Dublin team with a senior security expert to help drive sales, engineering and customer service activities across the EMEA region, while also supporting OneLogin’s allegiance to gender diversity and sponsorship of Women in...

New attacks discovered by Cofense can perform keylogging, steal data and completely hijack a mobile device. A new phishing campaign is attempting to deliver sophisticated malware that can completely hijack an Android mobile device to steal user credentials, install a keylogger and even hold a device’s data for ransom. Source: Threat Post

A misconfiguration in an election day app developed by Likud, the party of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, may have potentially exposed and compromised the personal details of almost 6,5 million Israeli citizens. The leak was discovered and detailed today by Ran Bar-Zik, an Israeli-born frontend developer for Verizon Media. Source: ZD Net