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April 2021 Release
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Zoom Snooping: How Body Language Can Spill Your Password
Researchers found a way to read what people are typing during a video call (via Zoom, Microsoft Skype or Google Hangouts) by analysing shoulder movements. Since most users are typically doing other stuff while on video calls and a lot of those tasks involve typing, a...
10 security awareness training tips for employees who work from home
Providing good security awareness training needs to become a top priority when it comes to your business, especially when your employees work remotely because it might very well save your business. Nowadays, the marvels of technology enable people to work from...
Joe Biden: Ransomware threat becomes National Security Priority
As the ransomware threat against companies, institutions, and organizations in the U.S. is becoming increasingly present and likely imminent, Joe Biden plans on taking strategic action against it after elevating it to National Security Priority. Biden to set up...
LinkedIn breach with 92% of users’ data exposed
A second massive Linkedln breach exposes the personal data of 700 million LinkedIn users (nearly 92% of the total 756M users). Data has been sold on the dark web, with records including phone numbers, physical addresses, inferred salaries, and geolocation data. Based...
Security awareness training and 6 security basics your employees need to learn
Security awareness is mandatory, especially these days, and we all know that “the bad guys” always attack the most vulnerable. Of course, it is almost impossible that your business’s IT leader to be the victim of a cyberattack; it will always be the employee on the...
Cyberattack hits Spain’s Ministry of Labour and Social Economy on June 9
On June 9 this year, the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Economy (MITES) was hit by a cyberattack, only three months after a previous incident in March. Having an annual budget of nearly €39 million, this ministerial department is in charge of coordinating and...
Top 5 ataques de malware más famosos del 2020
En los últimos años, la seguridad informática ha sido cada vez más afectada por los ataques de malware de todo tipo. Los ciberdelincuentes se han aprovechado de nuestra confianza y desconocimiento para introducir en nuestras computadoras programas destinados a...
Denmark’s Central Bank compromised for 7 months by Russian hackers
Russian attackers accessed Denmark's central bank network with the use of a hidden malware. This granted them access to the institution's systems for seven months without being noticed. U.S. attributed the illicit operation to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service,...
Ransomware: 6 essential aspects
Although they have been around since as early as 1989, ransomware attacks have gained traction in the last years, causing great financial harm to both companies and people. But what makes this threat so special? Well, the term "ransom" must ring a bell as to what it...
Microsoft accidentally signed a gaming driver containing rootkit malware
Microsoft signed a driver being distributed in the gaming field, a malicious network filter rootkit. The driver is called “Netfilter,” a rootkit that redirects traffic to Chinese C2 IPs and aims to spoof gamers’ geo-locations to deceive the system and play from...
Akamai reported pandemic-bored scammers attacking the gaming industry in 2020
Cyberattacks on the video game industry increased during the pandemic year, shooting 340%, showing Akamai’s gaming report from 2020. Who is Akamai Technologies? Akamai Technologies Inc. is a global content delivery network (CDN), cloud service, and cybersecurity...