WannaCry Still Causing Trouble a Month On
More than a month after the WannaCry ransomware began making its way through networks around the world, the worm still is causing serious trouble in some places. Honda this week had to shut down an auto assembly plant temporarily due to a WannaCry infection, and the ransomware also has hit traffic cameras in Australia. Officials […]
Lawsuit Filed After Personal Data of Nearly 200 Million Voters Exposed
By Jonah Berg-Ganzarain A few days after the personal data of nearly 200 million registered American voters was accidently exposed online due to an “improperly configured security setting”, some of the people affected by the breach have filed a class-action lawsuit against the analytics company responsible for the leak. A total of 1.1 terabytes of data […]
Microsoft Makes Edge Bug Bounty Permanent
Microsoft is making the bug bounty for its Edge browser a permanent program, a significant change to the way the company incentivizes researchers to find vulnerabilities in the application. It’s been a little less than a year since Microsoft launched the bounty as a temporary offering with the Windows 10 Insider Preview. The idea was […]
Malvertising Campaign Tied to Ransomware Attack on UK Universities
The mobile ransomware infections that hit a number of universities in the U.K. recently have been traced back to a malvertising network and the Astrum exploit kit. The attacks against several universities, including University College London, emerged last week and initially there were fears that they were connected to the WannaCry ransomware outbreak. But researchers at […]
Looking Forward | Call Center Week
Delivered by the International Quality and Production Center (IQPC), the 18th annual Call Center Week will be taking place from June 26-30th this year in Las Vegas. As the largest conference dedicated to the customer experience, there are over 2,000 expected attendees, in addition to 155 expert speakers, as well as 200 sponsors and exhibitors. […]
South Korean ISP Nayana Pays $1M Ransom to Decrypt Servers
An ISP in South Korea that was hit with a deep ransomware infection in recent days has agreed to pay more than $1 million to recover access to its encrypted data. The company, Nayana, said that it had been hit with the Erebus ransomware about 10 days ago, and spent several days trying to recover […]
EU Parliament Seeks Ban on Crypto Backdoors
The European Parliament is considering a draft proposal that would effectively prohibit the introduction of backdoors in encryption systems and other kinds of interference with confidential information. The proposal, introduced before the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, comes at a time when legislators in a number of countries are discussing the […]
California Lawmaker Seeks to Restore Broadband Privacy Rule
Three months after Congress voted to repeal some privacy protections that prevented ISPs from sharing customers’ browsing history and other sensitive data without consent, a California legislator has introduced a bill in the state assembly that would restore those protections. The federal legislation passed in March essentially rolled back a rule that the FCC had […]
Europol Hits Group Allegedly Selling Security Evasion Tools
Europol has arrested six people as part of a wide-scale operation to crack down on cybercriminals who sell tools such as crypters and anti-AV that help attackers evade security defenses. The operation involved authorities in several countries and over the course of several days earlier this month, Europol officials made arrests and conducted interviews in […]