According to some security reports published by (Checkpoint) the specialized company in discovering security flaws in Whatsapp, the application includes a very dangerous flaw that allows hackers to change the content of the messages. Apparently Whatsapp is already aware of this flaw, but they didn’t take a step towards solving this problem so far. According...
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said that some hackers hacked his phone. He has received this information from the ministry of justice, according to his tweet. The ministry announced later that four hackers targeted Bolsonaro’s phones and they have been suspended in Sao Paulo, but the ministry never disclosed If the hackers reached the data on...
Google has admitted that some of its enterprise customers’ passwords have been erroneously stored in plaintext, in a security issue dating back 14 years. The tech giant’s VP of engineering, Suzanne Frey, explained that the problem occurred when it introduced a new way for G Suite domain administrators to upload and manually set new passwords...
It’s no secret that the security industry suffers from a severe skills shortage. Amongst the many cybersecurity positions companies are currently challenged to fill are penetration testers’ roles. However, of all the skills that are in high demand and short supply, pen testing shouldn’t be one of them. Pen testers are the rock stars of...
Cyber-criminals continue to grow more sophisticated, developing advanced attack methods, including tailored ransomware, according to the Q1 Global Threat Landscape Report, published today by Fortinet. In addition to targeted attacks, criminals are also using custom coding, living-off-the-land (LotL) and sharing infrastructure to maximize their opportunities, the report said. Despite a decline in previous high rates of ransomware,...
