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By Christian Contreras, Oct. 31, 2023 The annual Cybersecurity and Awareness Fair at Cal Poly Pomona returned Oct. 26 in the Bronco Student Center with workshops, presentations and hands-on demos accessible to anybody with an interest in cybersecurity. In its 19th year, the CSAF provides a forum for experts, professionals, students and interested individuals to gather

Officers of high integrity were selected to replace corruption-tainted 38 airport customs superintendents and air customs officers after the FPJ expose on the GPay digital extortion racket at Mumbai Airport.

A new report by Interpol has revealed that South Africa is at the heart of cybercrime in Africa in 2022 It also indicates there are huge concerns in Ghana as well, as the country was among those who recorded between 10 million to 50 million overall cyber threat cases in that year. In…

Our lawyers provide an overview of some of the most significant developments in cybersecurity and data privacy in the United States in 2022 and look ahead to trends for 2023.

On October 6, 2021, the DOJ announced two new initiatives: the Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative and the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.

Key Points - On October 6, 2021, the DOJ announced two new initiatives: the Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative and the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team. ...

The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack The attack came despite President Joe Bidens threat of retaliation to Russian President Vladimir Putin if they continued The massive scale of the attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies on Friday  John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs said the criminals targeted a software supplier called Kaseya  Kaseya earlier in the day had said in a press release that the potential ...

-The risks for Ethereum By Greg Peel This is the third part in FNArena’s series on the world of crypto. Part I explains just what bitcoin is and how it works. Part II compares bitcoin and gold as stores of wealth. Links below. Proof of Work As explained in the first part of this series, bitcoin is backed by the blockchain ledger system. Critical to bitcoin’s existence is the verification of each block in the chain, which is provided by solving a complex algorithm available in “open source...

Researchers discovered an unidentified malware that created a 1.2TB database of personal records stolen from 3.25 million PCs between 2018 and 2020.