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A team of White Hat hackers recently unearthed the personal details of over 100,000 workers of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) after finding the credentials to Git repositories as well as to multiple exposed.git directories on UN…
A wave of attacks against companies in Columbia uses a trio of Remote Access Trojans (RATs) to steal confidential, sensitive data. The campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax, was revealed by ESET researchers on Tuesday. In a blog post, the cybersecurity…
Economic turbulence and the impact of Covid-19 is expected to contribute to an increase in cybercrime across South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria this year, says cybersecurity multinational Kaspersky in Africa Enterprise cybersecurity adviser Lehan van…
A new combination of two older types of malware, which provides hackers with access to almost everything a user does on an Android smartphone, is up for sale on underground forums for as little as $29.99 – providing even low-level cyber…
On January 6th, the first day of the New York legislature's 2021 session, NY lawmakers proposed Assembly Bill 27 (AB 27), the Biometric Privacy Act. The legislative purpose of AB 27 is to provide safeguards for consumers regarding their biometric…
Mastercard announced on Monday the launch of its Mastercard Trust Center. According to Mastercard, the Mastercard Trust Center helps small businesses defend their most important assets, their business and reputation, through free online access to…
Leon Medical Centers was hit by a malware attack in November that exposed patients' protected health information, the Doral, Fla.-based hospital announced Jan. 8. The hospital discovered Nov. 8 that portions of its computer network were infected…
In 1981, IBM introduced the first personal computer, code-named “Acorn”. It used Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, had an Intel chip, two floppy drives and an optional colour monitor. It started the shift to placing computers…
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