Category Archives: Privacy and Security

The internet has long been a haven for criminals, from identity thieves and scammers to drug dealers and hackers. For many years, the dark web has been their preferred platform for buying and selling illicit goods and services. However, recent

Learn how IPFS is used in phishing attacks and why it’s especially tricky to remove the impacted pages, as well as how to protect from this security threat. The fraudulent use of the InterPlanetary File System seems to have increased

Cybersecurity agency shares the lessons learned from a red team assessment of a critical infrastructure organization. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has detailed how, during a cybersecurity red team assessment, it was able to gain access to

GitHub is instituting the requirement to help protect the open-source software supply chain from malicious threats. But the rollout will be gradual. To stop hackers from tampering with the software supply chain, GitHub will force users to adopt two-factor authentication (2FA) starting

Worried about privacy and Windows 11? This YouTube clip won’t be a comfortable watch It turns out things are very different these days – to no one’s surprise, really – and even before you connect to the internet, or open

The LockBit attack forced major companies to switch to manual trade processing A recent ransomware attack against ION Group has sent ripples throughout the finance industry and trading world, being so disruptive that the FIA global trading organization released a statement

The British postal service currently can’t handle any international mail due to the attack. British postal service the Royal Mail has been hit by ransomware, rendering it unable to send any mail internationally and causing a huge backlog of undelivered packages.

Analysis of chatter on dark web forums shows that efforts are already under way to use OpenAI’s chatbot to help script malware. The ChatGPT AI chatbot has created plenty of excitement in the short time it has been available and

Thought you could trust Microsoft-approved drivers? Think again Researchers at Sophos have identified that vulnerabilities in Microsoft-approved hardware drivers have been exploited in ransomware attacks by a group known as Cuba. A pair of files were found on compromised machines that Sophos says “work

The EU Court of Justice rules that Google and similar providers must remove search results on request when they’re ‘manifestly inaccurate.’ The “right to be forgotten” in the European Union now extends to false claims made about a person after