Category: Green tech

CircleCI has sent out a notification to its customers that a phishing email scam is targeting their users, along with GitHub’s, in an attempt to harvest credentials. The CircleCI security…

As computer scientists march forward in the process of bringing quantum computing into the practical world, cybersecurity vendors and practitioners will need to be ready with encryption mechanisms that can…

A malicious package in the npms open source repository is heading for a social engineering ride on the “Tailwind” legitimate software library tool used by millions of application developers around…

London-based cryptocurrency trading platform Wintermute saw cyber attackers make off with $160 million this week, likely due to a security vulnerability found in a partner’s code. The incident shows deep…

Security practitioners must figure out how to achieve their security goals with the budget they have. They must also demonstrate that the security program is effective in protecting the organization….

A malicious campaign targeting Internet users in Slovakia is yet another reminder of how phishing operators often exploit legitimate services and brands to evade security checks. In this case, the…

Vulnerabilities in open source components — such as the widespread bugs revealed 10 months ago in Log4j 2.0 — have forced data scientists to reevaluate the open source code often…

While NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware may be the most high-profile surveillance weapon used by repressive governments against civil society, a newly discovered powerful mobile reconnaissance malware called Hermit has come…

A Sept. 8 ransomware attack on government systems in Suffolk County, New York continues to wreak havoc on area citizens, prompting overwhelmed 911 operators working without the aid of computers…

Enterprises worldwide are living dangerously, skating by with inadequate visibility and security into their mobile attack surface. While many organizations have adopted some level of governance over the mobile devices…

A 15-year-old bug in the Python open source programming language has remained unpatched in many places, making its way into hundreds of thousands of both open source and closed source…

A Florida teenager who served as a lackey for a cybercriminal group specializing in cryptocurrency theft was last week beaten and kidnapped by a rival cybercriminal gang. The teenager’s captors…

Ransomware is the biggest cyber security threat facing organizations today. But recently, executives from the National Security Agency and the FBI both indicated that attacks declined during the first half…

Microsoft released a hefty PDF on Tuesday detailing Windows 11’s new security-focused features, with a heavy emphasis on supporting zero trust. For a few years now, Microsoft, Google and Amazon…