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Western nations have been criticised for his or her routine behavior of disposing previous servers, stuffed to the brim with delicate info, in overseas nations, opening up the chance to hackers to check their abilities in extracting personal info and holding it for ransom. Usually it's the case that the previous servers are being changed with newer {hardware} tools and workstations, and being offered to personal corporations in distant areas with out utterly eradicating confidential and delicate information which have the potential to determine people and impair authorities programs. Alas, this unguarded information is a hacker’s jackpot. An nameless supply ...

The DPC is aiming to finally complete works on its case management system by Q2 2021, five years after first proposing upgrade. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has yet to complete a major IT overhaul that it once suggesting would be critical to effective GDPR enforcement. The DPC is one of the most important data protection regulators across Europe and plays a critical role in cross-border GDPR enforcement given that many of the world’s biggest tech companies are headquartered in Ireland. However, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has revealed, through freedom of information (FOI) requests, that a ...

The threat has been fixed alongside 55 other bugs in the latest Patch Tuesday round of fixes. Microsoft has patched 56 flaws in its latest Patch Tuesday round of fixes including a critical vulnerability in the win32k component of Windows 10 that could allow hackers to escalate privileges on a targeted device. The critical zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-1732, is under active exploitation and is rated 7.8 on the CVSS threat severity scale. It’s been exploited to allow hackers to run malicious code on a targeted system with elevated privileges, according to researchers with DBAPPSecurity, who first discovered the flaw. ...

Google’s impending takedown of third-party cookies in Chrome is a big win for privacy. And Google Google Chrome is ditching third-party cookies for good. If all goes according to plan then future updates to the world’s most popular web browser will rewrite the rules of online advertising and make it far harder to track the web activity of billions of people. But it’s not that simple. What seems like a big win for privacy may, ultimately, only serve to tighten Google’s grip on the advertising industry and web as a whole. Critics and regulators argue the move risks putting smaller ...

Coveware data shows that the average payment decreased by 34% to £112,800 in the fourth quarter of 2020The average ransom payment to hackers decreased by more than a third in the fourth quarter of 2020 as more victims opted not to pay up.That’s according to cyber security company Coveware, which found a sharp decline in the average and median payments that ransomware victims paid to attackers.Coveware’s data, gathered from ransomware incidents the company helped companies respond to in Q4 2020, showed that average ransomware payments decreased by 34% to $154,000 (around £112,800) while median payments dropped 55% from $110,532 (£81,000) ...

Three severe flaws across Orion and Serv-U FTP can be exploited to launch remote code execution attacks and steal data With more people than ever working from home, it’s vital to ensure that laptops, mobiles and PCs are secure Your staff may be keeping their distance during the COVID-19 pandemic, but cyber criminals aren’t. 2020 saw a huge increase in cyber attacks as workers moved outside of the company firewall – often on laptops that lacked proper protection against intrusions and malware. Barely a day passes by without news of a security breach. The UK government's Cyber Security Breaches ...

Security researchers discovered new delivery and evasion techniques adopted by Agent Tesla remote access trojan (RAT) to get around defense barriers and check its victims. The Windows spyware that spreads through social engineering techniques now targets Microsoft’s Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) in an attempt to defeat endpoint protection software and also employs a multi-stage installation process and makes use of Tor and Telegram messaging API to communicate with a command-and-control (C2) server. Two versions of Agent Tesla — version 2 and version 3 — currently found in the wild. The cybersecurity firm Sophos said that these changes are another sign ...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) disclosed a ransomware attack which caused disruption in its services and may have led to data theft. The cyberattack has affected two of the group’s services: a portal used by the Brussels-based UK Research Office (UKRO) and an extranet, known as the BBSRC extranet, which is utilized by UKRI councils. UKRI which was launched in 2018 is a public body supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Nine councils come together under the brand to manage research grants and to support innovative businesses and opportunities in the United Kingdom. UKRI stated ...

Hackers inserted malware in NoxPlayer Android emulator A new supply chain attack that compromises the update mechanism of NoxPlayer, a free Android emulator for PCs and Macs were disclosed by security researchers. The Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, dubbed the highly targeted surveillance campaign “Operation NightScout” which involved distributing three different malware families through tailored malicious updates to victims based in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Sri Lanka. NoxPlayer is an Android emulator which was developed by Hong Kong-based BigNox. It allows users to play mobile games on PC, with support for keyboard, gamepad, script recording, and multiple instances. It is estimated ...