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What Does It Take To Be a Cybersecurity Researcher? Behind the strategies and solutions needed to counter todays cyber threats are—dedicated cybersecurity researchers. They spend their lives dissecting code and analyzing incident reports to discover how to stop the bad guys. But what drives these specialists? To understand the motivations for why these cybersecurity pros do what they do, we decided to talk with cybersecurity analysts from around the world. To get viewpoints from across Europ...

Read more about New timings for govt offices in certain Karnataka districts due to heat on Business Standard. Karnataka government on Sunday said its offices in certain northern districts of the State would function from 8 AM to 1.30 PM from April 12 till May- end because of the summer heat.

Hackers From China Target Vietnamese Military and Government A hacking group related to a Chinese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam. The attacks have been attributed with low confidence to the advanced persistent threat (APT) called Cycldek (or Goblin Panda, Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes), which is known for using spear-phishing techniques to compromise diplomatic targets in Southeast Asia, Ind...

A hacker has posted the phone numbers and sensitive account details of nearly 533 million Facebook users -- about a fifth of the social networking platforms entire user base -- including over 61 lakh Indian users which has been dumped on a public cybercrime forum. The leaked data includes Facebook ID numbers, profile names, email addresses, location information, gender details, job data, and other details. "All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free. This means that if you ha...

Tim Nyberg cowrote "On Thin Ice," covering a wide variety of cybersecurity topics. Written By: Rebecca C. Mariscal | 6:00 am, Apr. 3, 2021 × Tim Nyberg, of River Falls, helped write the cybersecurity book "On Thin Ice." Submitted photo RIVER FALLS -- A River Falls man has hit the Amazon best-seller list for his contributions to “On Thin Ice,” a book on cybersecurity covering a wide variety of topics. Tim Nyberg teamed up with other leading information technology p...

  When the chips are down, we find that governments, businesses, communities and individuals all depend upon each other. We need look no further than our collective successes and failures in managing the COVID-19 pandemic to see this. And the same is true in managing the escalation of conflict in cyberspace: We need to work together. Unfortunately, we’re not. State-led and state-sponsored cyberattacks have transformed the internet into a new battlefield. This wartime metaphor implies, howeve...

Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) A number of prominent U.S. colleges have become the newest, unlucky recipients of a cybersecurity migraine currently affecting dozens of organizations all over the world. Advertisement You may have heard something about Accellion—the global cloud provider whose secure-file transfer product (called FTA) was beset by a hacking campaign back in December. If you haven’t heard about it, you can read a recent run-down of the whole trainwreck here. All you really...

Look out, n00bs. Hackers are apparently deploying fake game “cheats” for Call of Duty: Warzone. They sure won’t help you merk your opponents, but they will inject a crapload of malware onto your computer. Advertisement A recently disclosed report from game publisher Activision shows that discussion of such schemes was recently observed on several different dark web forums. Criminals discussed tricking unsuspecting gamers into downloading a dropper—a malicious program that can be cus...

Hackers Set Up a Fake Cybersecurity Firm to Target Security Experts A North Korean government-backed campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware has re-emerged with new tactics in their arsenal as part of a fresh social engineering attack. In an update shared on Wednesday, Googles Threat Analysis Group said the attackers behind the operation set up a fake security company called SecuriElite and a slew of social media accounts across Twitter and LinkedIn in an attempt to trick unsu...

DeepDotWeb Admin Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges DeepDotWeb (DDW), a "news" website that "served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces." According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar, 37, an Israeli citizen residing in Brazil, operated DDW alongside Michael Phan, 34, of Israel, starting October 2013, in return for which they received kickbacks from the operators of the marketplaces in the form of virtual currency amounting to 8,155 bitcoins (worth $8.4 million at th...