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A South African man has admitted carrying out a cyber-harassment campaign against his neighbors in an attempt to extort money.  Residents of the same quiet street in a Durban suburb that Dharmesh Singh calls home were subjected to weeks of abuse with no idea that the person behind it was their immediate neighbor.  Twenty-three-year-old Singh used unregistered SIM cards to create fake social media profiles from which he sent threatening messages to residents of Battersea Road,…

European consumer groups have accused video-sharing app TikTok of failing to protect minor users from inappropriate content and hidden advertising. The Chinese-owned app was the target of multiple complaints from organizations in 15 different countries on Tuesday for allegedly violating European consumer rights. Along with its treatment of children and teens, the app was slammed for its allegedly unfair terms of service, misleading data-processing practices, and virtual gifts feature critics say modifies the exchange rate so transactions are financially in the…

Many applications can take advantage of GPU acceleration, in particular resource-intensive Machine Learning (ML) applications. The development time of such applications may vary based on the hardware of the machine we use for development. Containerization will facilitate development due to reproducibility and will make the setup easily transferable to other machines. Most importantly, a containerized application is easily deployable to platforms such as Amazon ECS, where it can take advantage of different hardware configurations. In…

By Udi Levy, CEO & Co-Founder at Cobwebs Technologies With a growing number of malicious cyber activities, threat intelligence has become an integral part of many organizations. Most threat intelligence solutions available in the market still rely on analysts or investigators collecting, processing, and analyzing huge amounts of data for actionable insights. Collecting and processing these millions of data points and indicators is just too much for human analysts to effectively identify threats and process…

Balancing Digital: Helping Your Family Manage Ongoing Stress Editor’s Note: This is part I in a series on helping families protect their mental and digital health in times of chronic stress. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice or treatment. The data continues to confirm that living with the stress of a prolonged pandemic is taking a toll on the mental health of both the young and old. Add increased…

Google revealed that Gmail users from the United States are the most targeted by email-based phishing and malware. A joint five-month study conducted by Google with Stanford University researchers analyzed over 1.2 billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users to determine what are factors influence the risk of attack. Experts discovered that malicious campaigns are typically short-lived and indiscriminately target users worldwide. “However, by modeling the distribution of targeted users, we find that…

Fraudulent product reviews for goods sold on Amazon’s Marketplace are available to purchase by the bundle, according to an investigation by consumer group Which? The group identified 10 different websites including AMZTigers from which Amazon sellers could purchase positive reviews at prices starting from £5 each. In return for their services, reviewers accept free products, discounted products, or payment.  Sellers could also purchase “packages” of fake reviews ranging in price from £15 for one package up to…

What is your organization’s readiness for the emerging eXtended Detection Response (XDR) technology? McAfee just released the first iteration of this technology, MVISION XDR. As XDR capabilities become available, organizations need to think through how to embrace the new security operations technology destined to empower detection and response capabilities. XDR is a journey for people and organizations.  The cool thing about McAfee’s offering is the XDR capabilities is built on the McAfee platform of MVISION EDR, MVISION Insights and is extended to other McAfee products and…

Analysts from Trend Micro rate DDoS attacks and electronic jamming as some of the highest cybersecurity risks for connected cars. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto A new report from Trend Micro analyzes a day in the travels of a connected car to identify the cyberattacks most likely to succeed. “Cybersecurity for Connected Cars: Exploring Risks in 5G, Cloud and Other Connected Technologies” puts the overall risk at medium. Among the millions of endpoints in a connected car’s…

Spyware activity spiked in 2020, and the malware-as-a-service business model got more sophisticated. Image: kaptnali, Getty Images/iStockphoto The 2021 State of Malware Report from Malwarebytes found that cybercriminals are learning from the past to build smarter software and starting to modularize their products to make distribution easier. Those are some of the findings in the Malwarebytes report released today. The report examined what malware was most active during 2020, as well as trends in attacks…