Cisco launched a $10 million scholarship program and enhancements to its security certification portfolio to address the cybersecurity skill shortage being felt by businesses and government organizations globally.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), the country's official state news broadcaster, has confirmed that it suffered a wave of cyberattacks orchestrated by a hacktivist aligned with the Anonymous collective.
On Sunday, 12 June, a Twitter account called Anonymous Africa claimed responsibility for launching a series of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the broadcaster's websites in a protest of alleged news censorship.
In recent weeks, following an episode of 60 Minutes, you may have heard of the SS7 protocol or SS7 network. For anyone unfamiliar with the technology – and you’re in the majority – the SS7 protocol underpins the world’s mobile networks. It possesses more daily users than the internet and must be used in every instance to send a text or make a phone call, among other uses.
Citi is launching voice biometric verification for customers in Singapore to help to cut user authentication time.
The bank has already implemented voice biometrics for consumer customers in Taiwan, with Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia to follow soon. The service will be available to all 12 of Citi’s consumer banking markets in Asia-Pacific by 2017.
Researchers have found what they say is a flaw in the Telegram that allows messages of any size to be sent.
The unpatched flaw demonstrated in a proof-of-concept shows how attackers can send mesages of any size over the popular encrypted communications app by skirting restrictions.
Telegram has been contacted for comment. Iranian researcher Sad Ghaf did not pinpoint the flaw in a bid to prevent others exploiting it, and says he could not find a way to report the flaw to Telegram.
Just days after Facebook czar Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts were found to be hacked, it appears that more folks will need to change their passwords.
ZDNet reported that a Russian hacker claimed to have a massive cache of millions of Twitter account logins for sale, for 10 bitcoins or about $5,807. LeakedSource, which indexes hacked credentials from data breaches, noted in a blog post that the database, of which it received a copy, contains more than 32 million accounts.
L33tdawg: As seen at #HITB2016AMS - Peering into the Depths of TLS Traffic in Real-Time
Security firm Bitdefender has found a vulnerability in public cloud infrastructures which it said allows a third party to eavesdrop on communications encrypted with transport layer security (TLS) protocol.
Digital megabreaches have lately become so commonplace as to be almost indistinguishable on the alarm scale—a hundred million passwords stolen from one social media service one day, a few hundred million more the next. It all becomes a depressing blur. But not all password disasters are equally disastrous. And the difference between a Three Mile Island and a Hiroshima sometimes comes down to an arcane branch of cryptography: hashing.
A hacker that has targeted several American social media sites has now hit the Russian version of Facebook.
On the heels of several American social networking site breaches including LinkedIn, Tumblr and Myspace, a hacker has obtained a database containing roughly 171 million user accounts associated with the Russian-based, Facebook-inspired, social networking site VK.com.
“Is your company vulnerable?”
This is one of the first questions any IT pro needs to ask themselves when starting a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace.
