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If you plan to watch the upcoming final season of Game of Thrones (GoT), you might want to think twice before downloading the show illegally.A study by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has shown that cybercriminals are actively using pirated content to spread malware, and GoT files are the most at risk. Even though the numbers of users attacked by infected pirated files are declining, the firm said the trend should still give pause: “By dividing...

Overall customer satisfaction is falling, down 2.2 percent, from 94.6 percent in 2013 to 92.5 percent in 2018. But customer expectations continue to increase. Nearly half of customers have expectations higher than they were a year ago. San Francisco, CA-based customer service and engagement platform Zendesk has released its customer experience trends report which is based on industry research and global product usage data from 45,000 customers world-wide, 18,000 of them in the US.Younger generations,...

Global spending on public cloud services are expected to hit $214.3 billion, up 17.5 percent, according Gartner. Software as a service will account for the biggest chunk of spending at $94.8 billion for 2019.Of the various categories of cloud spending, infrastructure as a service will be growing the fastest in 2019, up 27.5 percent to $38.9 billion.Enterprises are generally adopting a cloud-first strategy, but hybrid models still abound. By 2022, Gartner is projecting the total...

According to a new report shared by an IT professional who wants to remain anonymous and tweets from @InfoSecIta, there are more than 26,000 Kibana instances that are currently exposed on the Internet, and unfortunately, most of them are reportedly unprotected.That’s because Kibana does not come with any security baked into it, like session management, though administrators can still manually configure it to use third-party plugins, like Search Guard, to enable authentication."Even if your server...

Notepad++ 7.6.5 has been released and is now being signed with a GPG signature so that users who download the program can verify its authenticity.In March, Notepad++ developer Don Ho stated that after a donated code signing certificate had expired, he had problems registering a new certificate under the "Notepad++" name as it does not exist as an organization or a company. Due to this process and exorbitant prices of code signing certificates, he stated...

An Israeli cyber watchdog said Monday it has uncovered a network of fake online accounts backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and slandering opponents ahead of next week's general election.In a new report the Big Bots Protect, which describes itself as a campaigner against social media abuse, said posts used "lies, libel and rumormongering" to attack Netanyahu's challengers.It found over 130,000 tweets from "hundreds of fake or anonymous accounts" without names or profile pictures, which did...

There is a new malware called vxCrypter ransomware in the digital space, and it will encrypt your files along and ‘improve’ your PC’s performance.Vccrypter is based on an unfinished, old ransomware called vxLock that utilized Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Rivest-Shamir-Adleman or RSA algorithm to encrypt files. Source: FOSSBYTES

Many Canadians were surprised this weekend when their phones were buzzed by an incoming spam text from an unexpected political source. The Conservative Party of Canada mass-texted millions of randomly generated phone numbers in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick, telling recipients that gasoline prices were about to spike, and they should fill up. The texts were meant to drum up political opposition to the Trudeau government's carbon tax, which came into effect Monday in...

Kaspersky says the majority of attacks are not targeted at control systems, but they could still exploit vulnerabilities. Phishing emails with malicious attachments are the main attack vector for penetrating industrial enterprises, according to a report by Kaspersky, which says the type of attack has become “route for workstations in the industrial sphere.”The phishing emails are “carefully crafted”, and appear to be sent from real companies masked as business correspondence, including commercial offers, invitations to...

More than a few restaurant-goers in the US will want to check their bank statements. Earl Enterprises has confirmed that hackers used point-of-sale malware to scoop up credit and card data at some of its US restaurants between May 2018 and March 2019, including virtually all Buca di Beppo locations, a few Earl of Sandwich locations and Planet Hollywood's presences in Las Vegas, New York City and Orlando. It's a fairly large data breach -  KrebsOnSecurity discovered that a...