Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Attention WordPress users! Your website could easily get hacked if you are using “Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder,” or “Ultimate Addons for Elementor” and haven’t recently updated them to the latest available versions. Security researchers have discovered a critical yet easy-to-exploit…
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Credit: Dreamstime Cyber criminals are taking advantage of the Christmas season by making postal presents and party invites their latest target of attack. One hack circulating currently is a text message scam that takes advantage of people expecting parcels from Australia…
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Malware obfuscation comes in all shapes and sizes — and it’s sometimes hard to recognize the difference between malicious and legitimate code when you see it. Recently, we came across an interesting case where attackers went a few extra miles to…
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Home > Security News Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, tucked legislation to protect the U.S. energy grid from cyberattacks into the finalized 2020 Defense Authorization Bill. The Securing Energy Infrastructure Act, which King introduced with Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, aims to safeguard…
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans You can’t rely on the words, intentions, or security measures of others to guard your company, customer and brand. One misconfiguration can compromise nearly all of an entire country’s financial data in the new realm of third-party risk management. Witness the…
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans 2 min read A staff member stands at the front desk of Huawei’s Cyber Security Lab on July 29, 2019, in Dongguan, Guangzhou. (Image credit: TechNode/Shi Jiayi) Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei has won a bid from one of Germany’s biggest…
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Home > Security News > Vulnerabilities Intel on Tuesday distributed 11 new security advisories, disclosing 16 total vulnerabilities that affect various software or firmware products. None of the bugs was deemed critical, but there were seven high-level issues, including an escalation…
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans North Korea’s Lazarus Group – of Sony breach and WannaCry fame – is among the first customers. The operators of the prolific Trickbot banking botnet have begun offering advanced persistent threat actors access to a sophisticated new attack toolset called Anchor…
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Contents Growing stronger Taming the behemoth According to a recent report by digital asset management firm CoinShares, China is now responsible for 66 percent of Bitcoin’s total hash rate, which represents a six percent increase from July. Notably, China is currently…
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans New ESG research points to fundamental problems, a need for scalable security data pipelines, and a migration to the public cloud. ESG research recently completed a new research project focused on security analytics and operations. As part of this project, ESG…
