Peloton

Does Biden’s Peloton Present a Security Risk?

President Biden’s commitment to maintaining his health is admirable but may have given rise to some concerns about the nation’s cybersecurity. Specifically, the President...
Vishing

FBI Warns Companies of Vishing Attacks

The FBI warned that companies and organizations are increasingly being targeted voice phishing, or “vishing,” attacks.  In the January 14 Private Industry Notification (PIN), the...

Third Certainty #35: IoT in 2021

While security vulnerabilities in IoT devices are commonplace, using them to spread sophisticated malware may be a new trend in 2021. 

Third Certainty #34: Deepfakes

While deepfakes didn’t trigger the doomsday scenario many worried about during the 2020 election, they’re going to become more common and harder to detect...
Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Reserve Bank of New Zealand Data Breach Caused by Antiquated Third...

The data breach of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand has been attributed to the compromise of a third party file sharing service. “A third...
Parler

Hacker Scraped 80 TB of Parler User Data, Cites Poor Security

A hacker and security researcher claims to have downloaded and archived over 99% of the posts, videos, and images uploaded to Parler, a right-wing...
trump RAT

Trojan Disguised As Trump Illicit Video Found by Researchers

Hackers have been using a novel method of spreading remote access trojan (RAT) malware. Researchers with cybersecurity firm Trustwave have identified an email campaign containing...
Capitol Riot

The US Capitol Riot is a National Cybersecurity Emergency

The rioting in the Capitol gives rise to cybersecurity issues as well as some basic concern regarding traditional modes of spying. There is no way...

US Government: Russia “Likely” Behind SolarWinds Breach

The Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG), a task force composed of U.S. cybersecurity, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies, announced earlier this week that Russia...
SolarWinds

There Are Thousands More SolarWinds Hacks Waiting to Happen

When SolarWinds was compromised it set the stage for the infiltration by Russian-backed hackers of Fortune 500 companies and several branches of the U.S....