RSS_Virtulization

A rights group is suing the US government over what it claims to be the latter’s secret purchasing of mobile phone location data to track individuals. The GPS data used by many apps is regularly sold to other companies for marketing and other purposes. However, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week claimed that, according to reports earlier in the year, some of these companies are selling it on to government agencies. That raises…

Third-party plug-ins driving most retail sites can open doors to attackers by Mounir Hahad, Head of Juniper Threat Labs at Juniper Networks In the unprecedented year of 2020, the rise in cyberattacks has been an unfortunate side effect of the global pandemic. Magecart is more of a threat this year than ever before, both because a) more shoppers have moved online so the volumes are higher, and b) in the rush to introduce new online…

The emails impersonate a member company of the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain to harvest account credentials, says IBM Security X-Force. weerapatkiatdumrong, Getty Images/iStockphoto A calculated cybercriminal operation is targeting companies in the coronavirus vaccine supply chain with phishing emails that appear to be designed to steal sensitive user credentials, IBM Security X-Force said in a report released Thursday. The targeted organizations are all associated with a COVID-19 cold chain, a component of the overall supply…

Attacks against COVID-19 vaccine developers will continue, while more reports will surface about patient data leaks in the cloud, says Kaspersky. Anatoliy Babiy 2020 has been a rough year for everyone, from individuals to organizations. One sector that’s been hit especially hard is healthcare. Under pressure to help those afflicted with the coronavirus and work toward a vaccine, hospitals and healthcare facilities have also been hurt by cyberattacks that have threatened not just the data…