Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) accompanied by ransom requests to stop the malicious campaign had a significant increase in the fourth quarter of 2021, growing 175% compared to the previous period. That’s what a report released by Cloudflare on Tuesday (10) points out. According to the firm specializing in...
The search for news about the covid-19 pandemic and the spread of the ômicron variant is already the target of scams on the internet. The Fortinet Security Lab identified a new type of cybercrime that takes advantage of the topic to steal information from careless users. According to the report,...
One of the most controversial pieces of equipment in the US, smart weapons, which only fire in the hands of authorized users, have finally started to be sold in that country. An Idaho company, LodeStar Works, announced its 9mm smart pistol Friday at a shareholder event, and SmartGunz LLC said...
Microsoft, in its first Patch Tuesday of 2022, fixed 96 vulnerabilities of the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems, Microsoft Exchange Server, Office, RDP, cryptographic services and Microsoft Teams. Elevation of privilege (EoP) bugs accounted for 42% of security vulnerabilities fixed this month, followed by remote code execution (RCE)...
In November of last year, Panasonic confirmed that hackers accessed information from the company’s internal servers and stole data. This past Friday (7), it was confirmed that malicious individuals stole personal information from company job applicants and internships. Apparently, the hacker attack was not carried out only for this purpose,...
THE Goal, the company that owns Facebook, took another step in the development of technologies that allow the establishment of the company’s dreamed metaverse. Now, the company has received the registration of hundreds of US government patents involving Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality technologies. However, according to a report on...
the hotel chain Nordic Choice found a creative solution that could become a standard to reduce the damage of a ransomware attack against corporate servers. In a press release, the company informs that it switched the infected devices, which used Windows as an operating system, to an infrastructure entirely based...
A new leak has revealed some news about the new Microsoft Defender for Windows 11 and Android OS — and it shouldn’t take long to be released. The novelty will replace the current Windows Defender, considered one of the best antivirus on the market. The new application was discovered in...
The Bernalillo detention center in the United States suffered a ransomware attack on January 5th. The entire New Mexico prison system went offline between midnight and five in the morning, disabling security cameras and door opening and closing mechanisms. The database with information on crimes and records on prisoners was...
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data privacy and usage regulator, wants to discuss with the Goal, owner of Facebook, regarding possible security mechanisms for children to access platforms of the metaverse with safety. According to the newspaper The Guardian, the entity is concerned about the lack of parental...
On Monday (10), exactly one month after the hacker attacks that destabilized them, the data systems of the Ministry of Health were reintegrated, according to a statement issued by the ministry. According to the ministry, the systems had already been re-established, separately, on December 23, but the integration between them...
Every day in 2021, cyber defense firm Kaspersky identified 380,000 new malware and malicious software files on the internet, up 5.7% from the previous year. This growth is in line with the continued increase in the number of devices used globally, such as computers, tablets or smartphones. The majority of...
