Bitwarden surveyed 2,400 individuals from the US, UK, Australia, France, Germany, and Japan to investigate current user password practices. The survey shows that 25% of respondents globally reuse passwords across 11-20+ accounts, and 36% admit to using personal information in their credentials publicly accessible on social media (60%) platforms and online forums (30%). These practices […]
In the wake of a cyberattack that led to operational troubles, the city council for Leicester City, England, is still struggling with its city’s streetlights failing to shut off. Roger Ewens, a resident of Beaumont Leys, was among those who noticed the streetlights in Leicester were on day and night. “I noticed that down Anstey […]
The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed using a wide range of tools to retain access to compromised environments and steal valuable data. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky characterized the adversary as relying on various programs to harvest data on an “industrial scale” from primarily governmental organizations, some of them defense related, located in Source link
Earth Day is an annual reminder of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability, and an opportunity to come together and take action for a healthier planet and brighter future. Although the prevalence of plastic in our environment can be alarming, there are still meaningful ways we can make a difference, starting right here within […]
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Palo Alto firewalls: Public exploits, rising attacks, ineffective mitigationWhile it initially seemed that protecting Palo Alto Network firewalls from attacks leveraging CVE-2024-3400 would be possible by disabling the devices’ telemetry, it has now been confirmed that this mitigation is ineffectual. […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) became the victim of a cyberattack in late March, which also impacted the IT infrastructure of the city of Copenhagen, Denmark. The UNDP received word of a data-extortion actor stealing its data, some of it related to human resources and procurement. As the agency continues to assess the scope […]
What are the risks and consequences of having your health data exposed and what are the steps to take if it happens to you? Source link
A previously undocumented “flexible” backdoor called Kapeka has been “sporadically” observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022. The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the Russia-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as Sandworm (aka APT44 or Source link
In the 1960s and ’70s, the US firearms market saw an influx of cheaply-made, imported handguns. Legislators targeted the proliferation of these inexpensive and frequently unreliable weapons, ostensibly because they were believed to pose a risk to their owners and facilitate criminality. This was not an issue unique to the US or to that time […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2024-31497) in PuTTY, a popular SSH and Telnet client, could allow attackers to recover NIST P-521 client keys due to the “heavily biased” ECDSA nonces (random values used once), researchers have discovered. “To be more precise, the first 9 bits of each ECDSA nonce are zero. This allows for full secret key recovery […]