Blog Akamai Finds 13 Million Malicious Domains Each Month October 22, 2022 by Vertical Axion According to a new Akamai analysis, the company’s experts classified about 79 million domains as dangerous in the first half of 2022; based on a NOD (newly observed domain) dataset, this is about 13 million malicious domains per month, representing 20.1% of all the successfully resolved NODs. According to Akamai, a NOD is any domain […] Read more » Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology Technology News
Blog Intel Confirms Leak of Alder Lake BIOS Source Code October 20, 2022 by Vertical Axion After a source code leak was posted by an unidentified third party on 4chan and GitHub last week, the technology giant Intel has confirmed that confidential source code related to its Alder Lake CPUs has been leaked. The disclosed information comprises UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) code for the company’s 12th-generation CPUs that were released […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology Technology News
Blog Cloudflare Revolutionizes CAPTCHAs October 18, 2022 by Vertical Axion Turnstile, an ambitious new project from Cloudflare, aims to do away with the CAPTCHAs that are now being used on the internet to confirm users are not robots. Turnstile utilizes a revolving set of “browser challenges” to verify that visits to a website are not, in fact, bots. This service is free for all website […] Read more » Recent News Security Technology Technology News
Blog DDoS Attacks Target Major U.S. Airports October 17, 2022 by Vertical Axion Some major U.S. airports’ websites were inaccessible early on Monday, October 10, 2022, due to a coordinated denial-of-service assault orchestrated by professional hackers. However, officials said flights were unaffected. The assaults, in which participants bombard sites with garbage data, were planned by a mysterious organization named Killnet. The group posted a target list on its […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Cybersecurity Attack Hits U.S. Healthcare System October 15, 2022 by Vertical Axion On October 4th, 2022 a cybersecurity incident has disrupted CommonSpirit Hospitals. With more than 150,000 employees, 20,000 physicians, and serving 21 million patients, CommonSpirit Hospitals is the second-largest nonprofit hospital system in the nation. In 21 states, CommonSpirit operates more than 1,000 care sites and 140 hospitals. CommonSpirit Hospitals announced it is investigating an “IT […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Updated Malware Attacks Point of Sale Devices October 13, 2022 by Vertical Axion This year, security experts have found three updated versions of Prilex malware that target point-of-sale systems. In 2014, Prilex was a type of malware that targeted ATMs. It switched to PoS (point of sale) devices in 2016, but it wasn’t until 2020 that the malware reached its peak. After that, it faded away in 2021. […] Read more » Business & Finance General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Microsoft 365 Accounts Targeted In New BEC Scam September 30, 2022 by Vertical Axion Recently, researchers at Mitiga have sounded the alarm about a new Business Email Compromise (BEC) campaign. They discovered evidence of the campaign responding to another incident and have watched the campaign grow in scope and scale over time. Here’s how the attack works: The individual targeted by the campaign receives an email that appears to […] Read more » General Interest Microsoft Office 365 Phishing Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Modern Security Solutions For Evolving Ransomware Attacks September 29, 2022 by Vertical Axion Based on a recent survey conducted by the folks at Titaniam, a solid majority of organizations have robust security tools in place. Yet nearly 40 percent of them have fallen victim to a ransomware attack in the past year. How can this be? With conventional tools in place, how can this still be happening? The […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Ransomware Recent News Security Technology Tips
Blog Oracle Cloud Infrastructure New Vulnerability Patch September 28, 2022 by Vertical Axion In June, Wiz engineers discovered and reported #AttachMe, a critical cloud isolation flaw in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Due to its potential to affect all OCI customers, the #AttachMe cloud vulnerability is one of the most severe vulnerabilities discovered to date. The majority of the time, cloud isolation flaws only impact a single cloud service. […] Read more » Recent News Security Technology Technology News
Blog DuckDuckGo Email Privacy Service Beta Released September 26, 2022 by Vertical Axion DuckDuckGo has a reputation for protecting the privacy of its users far more than most other companies. Last year, the tiny search engine announced that they were experimenting with a free service designed to dodge email trackers as a means of further protecting the privacy of its users. The company’s Email Protection service works by […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection New Technology Recent News Security Technology News
