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An investigation has been launched after cyber-criminals targeted one of the 30 teams in America’s National Basketball Association.  Cybersecurity experts hired by the Houston Rockets are working closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine the precise nature and extent of the security incident. Reuters reports that an unknown attacker tried to install ransomware on the basketball franchise’s internal computer systems but was largely unsuccessful. “The Rockets organization recently detected suspicious activity on certain systems in…

Someone with the right know-how can obtain your phone number and email address when you try to share a file from your iPhone, say researchers at the University of Darmstadt. iPhone users with AirDrop enabled may unknowingly expose certain personal information to a complete stranger. In a report released last week, researchers at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Darmstadt in Germany revealed their discovery of a security hole in Apple’s AirDrop….

The United States is to launch a dedicated joint cyber center to promote integration between US Space Command and US Cyber Command. News of the center was shared by the commander of US Cyber Command, General James Dickinson, during a 2022 fiscal budget hearing with US Strategic Command and Space Command last week.  “We are standing up a joint cyber center within the command as we speak,” said Dickinson. Detailing what else was in the works for space and…

If you’re like me, you love a good heist film. Movies like The Italian Job, Inception, and Ocean’s 11 are riveting, but outside of cinema these types of heists don’t really happen anymore, right? Think again. In 2019, the Green Vault Museum in Dresden, Germany reported a jewel burglary worthy of its own film. On November 25, 2019 at 4am, the Berlin Clan Network started a fire that destroyed the museum’s power box, disabling some…

A former IT pro turned end user explains why blending your work and personal tech was, is and always will be a bad idea for you and your employer. In the age of remote work, it’s easier than ever to blur the lines between our personal and professional tech. Maybe it’s sending personal texts or emails from your work phone, editing personal documents or photos on your work laptop, or joining a virtual happy hour…

E-commerce fraud is set to spike 18% from 2020-2021 to top $20 billion globally this year, according to the latest research from Juniper Research. The value of online losses will grow from around $17.5 billion in 2020 as scammers continue to target the growing number of internet shoppers forced online by the pandemic. According to the new report, Online Payment Fraud: Emerging Threats, Segment Analysis & Market Forecasts 2021-2025 Market Research, merchants are increasingly on the…

Republicans in Arizona still smarting after Joe Biden’s win there have hired a little-known cybersecurity consultancy to perform an election ‘audit’ in the state’s most populous county, according to reports. Florida-based Cyber Ninjas has no previous experience in managing election recounts and is run by a man who has shared conspiracy theories online about the supposed illegitimacy of the US election results last November, according to The Guardian. The report cited Doug Logan as claiming his…

A major oil drilling specialist has admitted it suffered a ransomware attack which may have led to the compromise of data belonging to current and former employees. Houston-based Gyrodata claims to be one of the world’s leading suppliers of technology and services designed to extract hydrocarbons from the earth. However, late last week it published a statement revealing the security incident, which was discovered on February 21. There’s no information on whether the ransomware itself caused…

Lane Thames, PhD and principal security researcher at Tripwire explains the challenges you might not have considered in IT/OT convergence. 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: Welcome to the Tripwire Cybersecurity Podcast. I’m Tim Erlin, vice president of product management and strategy at Tripwire. I am joined by Lane Thames, principal security researcher at Tripwire. Today, we’re going to talk about industrial cybersecurity and the IT-OT divide that we see in the industry. Lane…

So, your computer screen has been hijacked by ransomware and the criminals behind the attack are demanding money to return your systems. Now what? That’s a question countless organisations are asking themselves nowadays, with attacks increasing and, according to Mimecast’s The State of Email Security Report 2020, organisations suffering three days of downtime on average following a ransomware attack. If you think that doesn’t sound so bad, the true scale of the issue is much…