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Cybersecurity Headlines

CYBER SECURITY HEADLINES

Cyber Security Headlines November 23, 2020

GoDaddy employees duped in cryptocurrency hack Social engineering was used to trick GoDaddy employees into transferring ownership and control over several cryptocurrency domains. This attack,...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 20, 2020

Worldwide campaign targets ZeroLogon exploit Security researchers at Symantec have documented companies in 17 regions being impacted by this campaign across automotive, pharmaceutical, engineering, and...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 19, 2020

Trump's tweets to lose protected status post-presidency US President Donald J. Trump isn't like the rest of us, and he doesn't play by the same...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 18, 2020

Trump fires CISA director Chris Krebs Krebs served as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) since its founding in November 2018....

Cyber Security Headlines – November 17, 2020

Apple responds to macOS privacy concerns Apple's Gatekeeper security service was first released on Mac's in 2012, and “performs online checks to verify if an...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 16, 2020

Qualcomm receives U.S. permission to sell 4G chips to Huawei Qualcomm Inc on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 13, 2020

Finland pushes through change to ID code law  The Finish government said it was preparing new legislation to allow citizens to change their personal identity...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 12, 2020

Facebook extends ban on political ads In the announcement, the social network said that the ban would extend for another month. Facebook cited the delays...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 11, 2020

Biden aide Bill Russo attacks Facebook’s post-election role Mr. Russo, who is deputy press secretary to the US president-elect tweeted that Facebook is not doing...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 10, 2020

Inrupt launches enterprise privacy platform In 2017, Tim Berners-Lee launched a company called Inrupt to market products that used the open-source Solid system. Monday, Inrupt...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 9, 2020

Trump lawsuit site to report rejected votes leaked voter data The website, called DontTouchTheGreenButton.com was launched by the Trump campaign in relation to the recently...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 6, 2020

Facebook updates its premature victory policy On election night, Facebook told the Wall Street Journal that it's policy to label candidate posts claiming premature victory...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 5, 2020

Facebook and Instagram add pop-up banners about election results The banners inform US users that the results of the US election have not been determined,...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 4, 2020

Instagram banner mistakenly advertises Wednesday as Election Day for some subscribers On Tuesday, a subset of Instagram subscribers saw a notification that stated “Tomorrow is...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 3, 2020

Twitter clarifies its election results policy The company had previously said it will label misleading tweets claiming premature victory in the US presidential election. Now...