Build security into your IoT plan or risk attack

There’s huge potential with the IoT, but security must be built into a company’s plan and not tacked on at the end. The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer some futuristic thing that’s years off from being something IT leaders need to be concerned with. The IoT era has arrived. In fact, Gartner forecasts there will be 20.4 billion connected devices globally by 2020.

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How AI Can Help To Define Governments National Cybersecurity Strategies

AI and National Cybersecurity Strategies When we speak about cybersecurity threats, there is nothing riskier and troublesome than the complexity of a modern country, where the digital has taken over all day-to-day operations. Moreover, governments and the state's administration held millions of citizens data and all sorts of sensible data. However, in many cases, their …


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Vulnerability exposes location of thousands of malware C&C servers

A vulnerability in a tool used by cyber-criminal gangs is now helping researchers expose the locations of thousands of malware command-and-control (C&C) servers.

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New flaws in 4G, 5G allow attackers to intercept calls and track phone locations

Three new security flaws in 4G and 5G, which they say can be used to #intercept phone calls and track the locations of cell phone users.  The findings are said to be the first time vulnerabilities have affected both 4G and the incoming 5G standard. “Any person with a little knowledge of cellular paging protocols can carry out this attack,”     

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The Role of cybersecurity in Fintech

Fintech companies rely mostly on their rapid adaptability to emergent changes. That is to say that these companies – the likes of Revolut, Monzo, TransferWise, Acorns, Addepar etc, just to name a few – owe their very existence to their ability to meet their ever-changing user's needs quickly and practically on-the-go. To be able to … 

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PayPal Processes Payments for ‘Stalkerware’ Software Sold to Abusive Partners

The booming industry of spyware to spy on romantic partners doesn’t exist in a vacuum: Companies need financial and tech giants to process their payments and advertise their wares.

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Android App with Over 10 Million Downloads Has Nasty Spyware

Android App with Over 10 Million Downloads Has Nasty Spyware, Triout, first detected last May, reads text messages, takes screenshots, copies photos and records phone calls, videos and GPS location from infected phones. Read Full Article 

Xiaomi Electric Scooters Vulnerable to Life-Threatening Remote Hacks.

Xiaomi Electric Scooters Vulnerable to Life-Threatening Remote Hacks. Researchers find that due to improper validation of password at the scooter’s end, a remote attacker, up to 100 meters away, could send unauthenticated commands over Bluetooth to a targeted vehicle without requiring the user-defined password.

Report: Nation-State Malware Attack Could Cripple US

Nation-State Malware #Attack Could Cripple #US. Without improved coordination, the U.S. government and private companies could be caught flat-footed if a nation-state hit the software supply chain with #malware or a #worm.

Half of IoT devices let down by vulnerable apps.

Disappointingly, 31% of the apps (corresponding to 37 devices out of 96) had no #encryption at all while another 19% had hard-coded encryption keys an #attacker might be able to reverse engineer.

Airline e-ticketing systems put passenger data at risk

Airlines could be putting the personal data of their passengers at risk by using unencrypted links, according to a new report. #Dataprivacy cybersecurity encryption

Patch your Android now against critical .PNG image bug

Android users are being reminded to be careful about the files they open on their smartphones, after the discovery that harmless-looking image files could be harbouring malicious code.

The Role of AI in the Cybersecurity

Many digital companies have embraced Artificial Intelligence technology as a way to optimize their resources to the limit. This buzzword has become mainstream thanks to Alexa, Siri or Cortana, human-like AIs capable of answering simple questions and place orders online, amidst other mundane tasks. They all are quite of a breakthroughs, as never before a …

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Will AI and Blockchain Shape The Future Of Cybersecurity

There is one shared statement amongst today's cybersecurity experts: evolve or fall against an ever evolving enemy. IT development has been characterized for releasing new and improved systems over time. However, these improvements in user interface and user experience, reliability and quicknesses, and overall system response, have forgotten one crucial aspect : security. It doesn't …

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Cybersecurity Role in Digital Forensics Part 1

Cyber security breaches have become rapidly one of the main concerns among all kinds of organizations. Even though companies are investing in complex new solutions against undesired guests, the task has never been easier. 

What is Digital Forensics?

What is Chain of Custody?

What are the challenges companies face in the dawn of new technological developments and how a Digital Forensics Lab can tackle each one of them?

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Is Blockchain That Safe? 

In whatever place we look at we always read the same story: how Blockchain is a new technology offering trust and security due to the way it is structured. But is that so? Is blockchain really so hacker proof as it praises itself to be? When we look …

What is blockchain?

Is Blockchain that safe?

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