Security

Image: Aqua For the past few months, a malware operation has been scanning the internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed on the internet without a password. Hackers are then breaking into unprotected hosts and installing a new crypto-mining malware strain named Kinsing. Attacks began last year and are ...

With the recent implementation of The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into effect on January 1, 2020, companies’ data collection policies will be affected. So how are users impacted – and what are their rights? The CCPA is the only state law that gives consumers the right to ...

Image: Charles Deluvio The current coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine periods imposed all over the globe have forced a large portion of the world’s population towards online shopping. But despite amid a dramatic rise in the number of people using online stores to buy food and supplies during this outbreak, security researchers ...

Your spying gadget needs an anti-spying gadget. Somewhere, John Le Carré sniggers. Paranoid It was the column that launched screams around America. Last week, I wrote about a UK law firm that suggested Amazon‘s Alexa and her cohorts should be switched off before you have any confidential work-related conversations. Now ...

Image: Peter Kruse Since May 2018, a malware botnet has been launching brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) databases to take over admin accounts and then install cryptocurrency mining scripts on the underlying operating system. The botnet, detailed in a report published today by cyber-security firm Guardicore and shared with ...

The FBI has issued an alert on Monday about state-sponsored hackers using the Kwampirs malware to attack supply chain companies and other industry sectors as part of a global hacking campaign. This marks the third alert about this particular group sent this year, in as many months, after the FBI ...

The iOS version of popular remote-working video app Zoom has been updated to remove the code that was sending user data to Facebook.  The update comes in response to a Motherboard analysis that found the Zoom iOS app was sending some analytics data to Facebook’s Graph application programming interface (API), even from ...

Lovable after all? Once, we were stupidly in love. Our lives had changed in a beautiful, limitless kind of way. Our new lover, the tech company, promised a better, richer, more fulfilling world. Our lover told us that, finally, the world would see us for who we really were — ...

Et tu, Apple? Image: Alisina Elyasi The thought is tattooed across my forearms every time I pick up an Apple product. Tim Cook’s company stands truly, madly, deeply for privacy. The likes of Google and Facebook stand for deep intrusion into every nook of your personal space. At least, that’s ...

With trade relations between China and the US still tense, efforts to cut out vendors such as Huawei from 5G implementations can lead to two separate ecosystems and varying industry standards. This may result in consumers losing out on benefits they have enjoyed from 4G, which has seen the adoption ...