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On January 19th, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) charged four Chinese nationals—Cheng Qingmin (程庆民), Wu Shurong (吴淑荣), Ding Xiaoyang (丁晓阳), and Zhu Yunmin (朱允敏)—with computer fraud and economic espionage. According to the DOJ, these men are linked to APT40, a hacking group associated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security. Under a front company, Hainan Xiandun Technology Development Co., APT40 disguised the Chinese government’s role in stealing confidential information from foreign governments and…

If you want people to trust the photos and videos your business puts out, it might be time to start learning how to prove they haven’t been tampered with. Image: Lightspring/Shutterstock Great (or terrifying) moments in deepfake history: The argument about whether a video of President Joe Biden talking to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House was real (it was). The Dutch, British and Latvian MPs convinced their Zoom conference with the…

With Real Examples & Screenshots of Cyber Attacks on Water & Wastewater Facilities By Michael Yehoshua, VP of Global Marketing, SCADAfence Over the last few months, cybersecurity journalists and the ICS security community have been discussing the Oldsmar Florida water system cyber-attack and other similar attacks on water infrastructure, almost ad nauseam. While many people have been talking about this “news” topic, we’ve actually been treating this issue with many of our customers over the…

 There’s a lot of conversation going on right now around digital apps; only it’s not about TikTok or Twitch. Instead, it’s about the spike in the number of app scams taking place every day—many of them impacting younger consumers.  In a recent report from The Washington Post, nearly two percent of the apps downloaded from the Apple store in a single day were scams costing consumers an estimated $48 million. A similar report this week in Tech Republic estimates more than 170 Android apps, including 25 on Google Play, have attempted to scam people by offering cryptomining services for a fee but then…

 There’s a lot of conversation going on right now around digital apps; only it’s not about TikTok or Twitch. Instead, it’s about the spike in the number of app scams taking place every day—many of them impacting younger consumers.  In a recent report from The Washington Post, nearly two percent of the apps downloaded from the Apple store in a single day were scams costing consumers an estimated $48 million. A similar report this week in Tech Republic estimates more than 170 Android apps, including 25 on Google Play, have attempted to scam people by offering cryptomining services for a fee but then…

Jihana Barrett, CEO of Cybrsuite explains the security needs from not just from an enterprise perspective but for day-to-day life. She also tells us about how her organization, Tech Sorority, provides valuable professional support and guidance for women in tech. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UDKiGLlzxhiGnd6FtvEnmStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-tripwire-cybersecurity-podcastRSS: https://tripwire.libsyn.com/rssYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgTfY3TXF9YKE9pUKp57pGSTaapTLpvC3 Tim Erlin: In the latest episode of the Tripwire Cybersecurity podcast, I had the opportunity to speak with Jihana Barrett. Jihana is the CEO of Cybrsuite, a company which offers cybersecurity…

With the regular and much needed update to critical standards such as HIPAA, auditors and compliance experts need to be continuously on their toes to review and acquaint themselves with these new developments. One of the latest such updates is the Health Information Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Enforcement rule, which has caused quite a stir in the industry due to confusion about its applicability. To set certain things clear, HIPAA Enforcement will not be applicable…

The ai-based dark web monitoring capability provides a visual representation of cyber events, revealing a larger, graphically displayed picture as inter-connected dots of information based on collected data By Udi Levy, Co-Founder, and CEO, Cobwebs Technologies Cobwebs Technologies announced today that several enterprises have deployed its AI-powered WEBINT platform for dark web monitoring to gain insight into emerging threats, or clues to breaches or attacks already in progress, aimed at them. Sites and content on the…