09.11.25 Security News Bites 45 New Domains Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Salt Typhoon is the group that hacked all the big telephone companies including the FBI’s wiretap portal. Recently the FBI says that the group hacked over 200 US companies. Now researchers have identified more domains being used by Salt Typhoon and another Chinese […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cost of Recent UK Retail Cyberattacks is $350 to $600 Million Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of £270-440 million ($362-$591 million). Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Harrods were all targets. That is a lot of money for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days If you are responsible for a website, this applies to you. TLS certificates, the tech behind making HTTPS:// work on your website, has been changing over the years. A website owner used to be able to buy a certificate and it would be valid for 10 years. But […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Information security experts say that China could retaliate against US tariff in a different way. What if President Xi calls in his army of hackers, rumored to be in the neighborhood of 300,000 to go after the United States? He could do this in one of two ways. The first way is to go after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is that person staring at you on Zoom really your boss? Or, is it a deep fake trying to get you to “gift” some hacker your company’s money? Last year that is exactly what happened to one Hong Kong company — to the tune of $25 million. iProov, a company that sells facial recognition identity […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It was always difficult to separate fact from fiction when it came to breach information. Too many players had their own agendas to know what was real. Now there is another player in the room and it is FEAR, UNCERTAINTY AND DOUBT. Over the past four months alone, the press, social media accounts, and some […]
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