A new analysis of data from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that Nevada has more cybercrime victims than any state in the union by a large margin — 801 per 100,000 internet users, four times higher than the national average. The analysis performed by Surfshark, a privacy protection toolset developer based in…
Most contractors the Department of Defense hired in the last five years failed to meet the required minimum cybersecurity standards, posing a significant risk to U.S. national security. Managed service vendor CyberSheath on Nov. 30 released a report showing that 87% of the Pentagon supply chain fails to meet basic cybersecurity minimums. Those security gaps…
Action by a government standards agency on potential post-quantum cryptographic algorithms will strongly stimulate the PQC market over the next five years, according to an international research and advisory firm. In its recently released Post-Quantum Cryptography application analysis report, ABI Research predicted PQC revenues will jump 12% from US$196 million in 2022 to $218.6 million…
As if defenders of software supply chains didn’t have enough attack vectors to worry about, they now have a new one: machine learning models. ML models are at the heart of technologies such as facial recognition and chatbots. Like open-source software repositories, the models are often downloaded and shared by developers and data scientists, so…
A large-scale phishing campaign built on typosquatting is targeting Windows and Android users with malware, according to a threat intelligence firm and cybersecurity website. The campaign currently underway uses more than 200 typosquatting domains that impersonate 27 brands to hoodwink web surfers to download malicious software to their computers and phones, BleepingComputer reported Sunday. Threat…
Sharing high-resolution media online can unintentionally expose sensitive biometric data, according to a report released Tuesday by a cybersecurity company. That can be particularly dangerous, the 75-page report by Trend Micro noted, because people don’t know that they’re exposing the information. The report cited, as an example, the #EyeMakeup hashtag on Instagram, which has nearly…
The conviction of former Uber Chief Security Officer Joseph Sullivan may pose a chilling reassessment of how chief information security officers (CISOs) and the security community handle network breaches going forward. A San Francisco federal jury on Oct 5. convicted Sullivan of failing to tell U.S. authorities about a 2016 hack of Uber’s databases. Judge…
After rising and falling since 2021, new Linux malware hit record highs at year-end in 2022, growing by 117% over previous levels. While Linux malware reached never-before-seen numbers in 2022, the total number of new malware developments among other major computing platforms fell. Linux is regarded as one of the most secure operating systems. But…
One thing that small and medium-sized businesses have in common with large enterprises is that cybersecurity remains a persistent and complex problem. Hackers understand that SMBs are vulnerable when connected to the internet and that there is a market to monetize stolen data. The proof is in the numbers released on Oct. 20 in the…
Have you checked your online accounts lately? If not, make doing so a priority today. Account takeover fraud is on the rise and looking for new victims. The holiday shopping season is already underway, with more consumers relying on e-commerce than ever before. So, let’s hope that today is not too late. Got your attention?…
