Scammers are increasingly leveraging call centers to carry out cyberattacks and infect their victims with malware after first roping them in by using PayPal invoices and even tickets to Justin Bieber’s upcoming 2022 world tour as lures, experts have warned. According to a new report from Proofpoint, the firm’s security researchers have observed an increase in attacks that rely on victims to call scammers directly and initiate the interaction after receiving an email with their…

If you pick up your teen’s phone on any given day, chances are the next stop you make will be Google. That’s because, if you’re like most parents, you’re beyond baffled by texting language kids use.   It’s okay, you are not alone if you feel out of the loop. As parents, we’re not invited to the party—and that’s okay. Slag belongs to the generation that coined it. And few of us are aching to use words like “sus” and “simp,”…

The US CISA shared a list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited in the wild and orders US federal agencies to address them within deadlines. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a catalog of 306 actively exploited vulnerabilities and has issued a binding operational directive ordering US federal agencies to address them within specific timeframes and deadlines. The directive applies to all software and hardware found on federal information systems managed…

A security expert raises concerns that a lack of identifying and tracking unusual data activity can have dangerous consequences. Image: Shutterstock/Funtap There’s usual data activity, unusual data activity, and then there’s dangerous data activity. Christian Wimpelmann, identity and access manager (IAM) at Code42, expresses concern that not enough emphasis is placed on paying attention to data activity at the company level. In the article When Does Unusual Data Activity Become Dangerous Data Activity?, Wimpelmann looks…

School districts in Ohio have been given a new online resource to help them improve their cybersecurity posture. The launch of the Ohio Department of Education Cyber Security Resources web page was announced by the Ohio Department of Education’s Cyber Security Steering Committee on November 3. The new resource was developed through the combined efforts of the Ohio Department of Education’s Cyber Security Steering Committee: the Center for Internet Security, the Department of Homeland Security, Filament Essential Services, Information…

Growing numbers of network engineers turn to this IT mindset to address mounting concerns of network safety in an age of hybrid work and edge commuting By Simon Pincus, VP of Engineering, Opengear Today, NetOps (network operations) utilizes a combination of automation, virtualization and orchestration, to make networking operations and functions faster and more accessible. While the potential for greater productivity may seem to be the main pull for engineers to adopt the current NetOps…

A digital forensics tool capable of retrieving previously unrecoverable data is now available to license from the United States Department of Defense’s Cyber Crime Center (DC3). DC3’s Advanced Carver was invented by digital forensics expert Dr. Eoghan Casey to salvage corrupted data files from almost any digital device. The tool can be used to recover digital content, including documents, databases, videos, images, and executable files, from devices such as smartphones, laptops, and cameras. “DC3 Advanced Carver was created…