Last Saturday night, a blackout in New York left the entire Manhattan area without electric power; interestingly, the incident occurred on the anniversary of the massive blackout that happened inRead More →
The government of La Porte County, Indiana, paid a ransom of about $130k USD after suffering a ransomware attack that encrypted access to all their files. According to information securityRead More →
Officials at Monroe College, a private university based in New York, recently reported a cybersecurity incident that affected its operations. According to system audit specialists, the hackers in charge ofRead More →
Since 2018 multiple digital forensics specialists started to reveal the existence of severe Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, which affect Intel’s advanced processors. Now, new researches have uncovered new flaws inRead More →
IT security audit specialists report a ransomware attack incident occurring in a municipality in eastern Ontario, Canada, in late June. The little city management reported that their systems have justRead More →
According to network security specialists, the LED lights on the Caps Lock, Num Lock and Scroll Lock keys on a USB keyboard can be used to extract data from aRead More →
According to IT security audits specialists, a machine to supply anesthesia widely used by hospitals around the world is vulnerable to hacker attacks and can be controlled remotely through aRead More →
This week, Austin Thompson, a 23-year-old from Utah, US, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison after being charged and found guilty of deploying a series ofRead More →
Specialists in ethical hacking from the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky reported the discovery of a new ransomware variant much more dangerous than encryption malware conventionally used by threat actors. This newRead More →
Ethical hacking specialists from the security firm Kaspersky reported the discovery of a new malware variant used by hackers to infect ATMs and extract money with illicit transactions in MexicoRead More →
