Sicherheit im Netz

Macy’s and Bloomingdales join a long list of retailers hit with cyber breaches this year, including Adidas, Under Armour, Forever21, Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor. In a notice sent to affected customers, Macy’s said it first detected suspicious login activity from certain Macys.com accounts on June 11, 2018:

Google is rolling out a redesign of its Gmail service, but federal cyber security authorities are voicing concerns over one particular new feature. This feature is called, “Confidential Email.” Confidential Email gives recipients access to content via a link and is designed to allow users to prevent the forwarding, copying,

Phishing emails are on the rise and can have devastating results, including unauthorized purchases, the stealing of funds, or identify theft. It occurs when an attacker, masquerading as a trusted entity, dupes a victim into opening an email, instant message, or text message. The recipient is then tricked into clicking

Today, the Japan Times reported that dozens of networked Canon surveillance cameras throughout Japan had been hacked. Limited information is available, but it appears surveillance for nursing homes to waterways and other public areas were completely taken offline by the hackers and the cameras were rendered useless. When installing camera

Windows recently rushed out security patches to fix their operating system, creating even more headaches for their customers. It’s no wonder most customers are switching to cloud-based services where they don’t have to worry about these issues. Anyone running a video management system (VMS) on Windows Server @008 R2 or

The SamSam ransomware virus hit the Colorado Department of Transportation for the second time. In the first attack detected on February 21, 2018, over 2,000 computers running Windows and McAfee security software were taken offline after their files were encrypted. After approximately 20% of those systems had been restored, a

The WannaCry ransomware virus recently infected 160 computers in 11 different Connecticut government agencies, according to the state’s CIO. The WannaCry ransomware virus infects computers by scrambling its data before the program displays a screen, which demands you pay money to gain back access to your files. Typically the price

Introduction Spectre and Meltdown are most egregious in the case of arbitrary third-party code execution, such as in shared-tenancy situations (e.g. cloud service providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud) or in desktop operating systems. This, in short, iswhy these vulnerabilities are so scary to companies like Amazon since

Last year Mirai malware hit 500,000 IoT devices and launched DDoS attacks. Now, a new malware has been identified by researchers at CheckPoint that is surpassing Mirai by hitting millions of IoT devices worldwide. On October 19, 2017, Checkpoint, announced that they’ve been tracking a „massive“ IoT botnet „forming to

Video Monitoring Centers are taking unnecessary cyber security risks daily just by working with video surveillance providers that are not cyber secure. But just because the video surveillance market stays behind the times on cyber security, does it mean the Video Monitoring Centers should, too? Read further to understand the