Author: Admin

Entertainment company Sky took more than 17 months to fix a security flaw that impacted roughly six million routers belonging to its customers.  The DNS rebinding vulnerability was discovered in May 2020 by Raf Fini, a researcher at British cybersecurity company Pen Test Partners.  Six router models were affected by the flaw: Sky Hub 3, Sky Hub 3.5, Booster 3, Sky Hub, Sky Hub 4, and Booster 4.  “It affected users with the default router’s admin password (admin:sky),…

Looking for a Hot High Paying Cyber Security Job?  Look No Further – Enter CyberDefenseProfessionals.com In the third quarter of 2021, Cyber Defense Media Group, the cybersecurity industry’s leading publisher and provider of daily infosec news from around the globe, initiated the service of Cyber Defense Professionals, a free Online Cybersecurity Jobs Portal, after spinning out from Ingersoll Lockwood, Inc. COST OF CYBERCRIME: “Cybercrime has surpassed Drug Crime as the largest form of global thievery…

A British man has admitted being a member of an international video piracy ring that illegally distributed “nearly every movie released by major production studios.” On Thursday, before United States District Judge Richard M. Berman, George Bridi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Bridi, who is 52 years old, has been part of Sparks Group – described by Europol as “one of the biggest online piracy groups…

The United States has charged two Iranian computer hackers in connection with a cyber-campaign intended to influence the outcome of America’s 2020 presidential election. An indictment unsealed in New York on Thursday alleges that 24-year-old Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and 27-year-old Sajjad Kashian conspired with others to intimidate and influence American voters, undermine voter confidence, and create societal discord. Starting in approximately August 2020, Kazemi, Kashian, and other co-conspirators allegedly began a four-pronged campaign that included…

Best practices to defend and respond to cyber-attacks, drawing on analogies with the COVID-19 pandemic, were set out by Brian Honan, CEO, BH Consulting, during this week’s IRISSCON 2021. Honan began by warning organizations: “What you put in place to defend or secure your network won’t stop the attackers. It will delay the attackers, but a sophisticated attacker will get by your systems eventually, so what you need to do is design your security to delay…