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 →
Data protection specialists report on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decision to apply a $5 billion USD fine to Facebook due to multiple practices that violate several social mediaRead 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 →
According to ethical hacking specialists, the U.S. government’s interest in implementing facial recognition technology at airports has increased especially since the starting of Donald Trump’s administration, this despite opposition fromRead More →
According to reports from information security experts, Premera Blue Cross, the Pacific’s largest insurer, agreed to pay about $10 million in 30 states after a data breach incident was revealedRead 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 →
Web application security experts reported the presence of a vulnerability in the Apple Watch that, if exploited, allowed threat actors to spy on users of iPhone devices. The vulnerability wasRead 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 →
Web application security experts claim that a group of government-sponsored hackers broke into the computer systems of ICS-Forth, the organization responsible for managing domain codes in Greece. The Institute ofRead More →
