While we’re enjoying the fruits of digital life—our eBooks, movies, email accounts, social media profiles, eBay stores, photos, online games, and more—there will come a time we should ask ourselves, What happens to all of this good stuff when I die? Like anything else we own, those things can be passed along through our estates too. With the explosion of digital media, commerce, and even digital currency too, there’s a very good chance you have…

The spyware tries to steal passwords and other sensitive data and accesses your contact list, warns the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. Image: Artyom Medvediev, Getty Images/iStockphoto A new malicious piece of spyware is targeting Android users in the U.K. in an attempt to snag their passwords and other private information. Last Friday, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an advisory cautioning people to beware of the new spyware dubbed FluBot. Affecting Android…

With on-premises infrastructure, securing server workloads and applications involves putting security controls between an organization’s network and the outside world. As organisations migrate workloads (“lift and shift”) to the cloud, the same approach was often used. On the contrary to lift and shift, many enterprise businesses had realized that in order to use the cloud efficiently they need to redesign their apps to become cloud-native. Cloud native is an approach to building and running applications that exploits…

Two email campaigns discovered by Armorblox impersonated Chase in an attempt to steal login credentials. Image: Tim Clayton/Corbis Sport/Getty Images Have you ever received an email apparently from your bank claiming that there was something wrong with your account? Even those of us savvy enough to watch for malicious messages and scams may pause for a moment, concerned that this warning just might be legitimate. And that’s when criminals hope you’ll take the bait. SEE: Social…

The targets of the latest attacks are C-suite executives in the video game industry, says BlackCloak. scyther5, Getty Images/iStockphoto Any organization can be vulnerable to cyberattack. But some have proved to be susceptible, especially over the past year as the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc with traditional work environments. A report released Tuesday by cybersecurity provider BlackCloak describes how cybercriminals have been targeting the video game industry and key executives. SEE: Video game career snapshot: Industry…