Highly sensitive files mysteriously disappeared from EUROPOL headquarters
Serious security breach hits EU police agency A batch of highly sensitive files containing the personal information of top Europol…
April 2024
U.S. Treasury warns financial sector, AI threats “outpacing” security
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: According to a new U.S. Treasury Department report, the financial services industry is extremely vulnerable to cyber threats…
XSS flaw in WordPress WP-Members Plugin can lead to script injection
A cross-site scripting vulnerability (XXS) in the WordPress WP-Members Membership plugin can lead to malicious script injection. Researchers from Defiant’s…
Understanding Brute Force Attacks: The Persistent Threat in Cybersecurity
Brute force attacks illustrate how persistence can pay off. Unfortunately, in this context, it’s for bad actors. Let’s dive into…
Binarly released the free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor
Researchers from the firmware security firm Binarly released a free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor Last week, Microsoft…
xz Utils Backdoor
The cybersecurity world got really lucky last week. An intentionally placed backdoor in xz Utils, an open-source compression utility, was…
Declassified NSA Newsletters
Through a 2010 FOIA request (yes, it took that long), we have copies of the NSA’s KRYPTOS Society Newsletter, “Tales…
The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 25 – 31 March 2024
37,376,751 known records breached in 2,109 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most…
Google agreed to erase billions of browser records to settle a class action lawsuit
Google is going to delete data records related to the ‘Incognito Mode’ browsing activity to settle a class action lawsuit.…
5 Reasons Why You Should Go Cashless Now
Here, I will show you essential reasons for going cashless. Over the years, the idea of having a cashless society…