Due to the pandemic Google developers re-enabled FTP support for Chrome
Most recently, I wrote that Firefox developers plan to remove from their browser support for the FTP protocol, as consider it to be unsafe. At the same time, Google re-enabled…
COVID-19 pandemic raised interest in pirated sites
Currently, hundreds of millions of people remain at home and occur global changes in the Internet traffic trends. In particular, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, raised interest in pirated sites.…
Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so criminals would not do it
The well-known IS journalist Brian Krebs drew attention to an interesting fact: this week Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so that criminals would not do it. The sum of transaction…
NASA staff faces exponential increase in number of hacker attacks
Representatives of the space agency said that recently NASA staff and home-based agency contractors suffered from increase in the number of hacker attacks, and their devices are constantly trying to…
82.5% of Microsoft Exchange servers are still vulnerable
Information security experts from Rapid7 reported that more than 35,000 Internet-connected Microsoft Exchange servers are still vulnerable to the critical vulnerability CVE-2020-0688 that was fixed in February. The vulnerability affects…
Vulnerabilities allowed access to cameras on Mac, iPhone and iPad
Apple paid $75,000 to the IS researcher Ryan Pickren in the frameworks of the bug bounty program for vulnerabilities in Safari, due to which it was possible to access someone…
The number of “coronavirus” cyberattacks increased to 5,000 per day
Check Point experts estimated that the number of “coronavirus” cyberattacks increased to 5,000 per day, and number of attacks on sites posing as Netflix services doubled. Researchers say the total…
Specialists published PoC exploits for SMBGhost vulnerability
The March "Tuesday of updates" did not include a patch for the vulnerability CVE-2020-0796, information about which was mistakenly published by experts from Cisco Talos and Fortinet in the public…
IS researcher found that the Tesla Model 3 interface is vulnerable to DoS attacks
Researcher Jacob Archuleta, known on the network under the pseudonym Nullze, found that the Tesla Model 3 interface is vulnerable to DoS attacks (Denial of Service). The bug received the…
Due to pandemic, RDP and VPN usage grew by 41% and 33%
Amid of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of remote access technologies such as RDP and VPN has grown significantly, as many companies have transferred their employees to remote work, and…
Dharma ransomware source code put for sale
ZDNet reports that the source code for one of the most profitable ransomware of our time, the Dharma ransomware, was put for sale on two hacker forums last weekend. Sources…
Attackers exposed the American company to a rare attack via BadUSB
Trustwave experts published a report, in which they said that the American company was exposed to a rare attack through BadUSB. An unnamed American hotel company was mailed a fake…
