Information Security (Page 38)

Alcohol producers and distributors in Russia were prevented from shipping products to their customers after a large-scale failure of the State’s Automated Alcohol Accounting Information System (EGAIS) generated by whatRead More →

Rodrigo Chaves, president of Costa Rica, confirmed the declaration of a national emergency due to the dangerous cyberattacks deployed by the Conti ransomware operation against government agencies. Recently it wasRead More →

Since it was acquired by Facebook, Instagram has become one of the five most popular social media platforms in the world, accumulating some 500 million active users a day andRead More →

A hacking group allegedly linked to Russian government is threatening to disrupt the proper functioning of ventilators in British hospitals after one of its alleged leaders was arrested by UKRead More →

Kubernetes announced that it will begin including cryptographically signed certificates in order to add an additional layer of protection against supply chain attacks. This will be possible thanks to theRead More →

Representatives of the Indian government announced the patching of a security issue in eHospital, its system for the management of healthcare information, which would have resulted in the exposure ofRead More →

After issuing a Red Notice at the request of the Beijing Police, Interpol confirmed the arrest of a Chinese national allegedly in charge of a fraudulent investment scheme. The 46-year-oldRead More →

Researchers from security firm Nozomi Networks detailed the finding of a critical vulnerability residing in uClibc, a standard C library used by large enterprises around the world. This library isRead More →

Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall, a popular security plugin for WordPress websites, is affected by a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability whose exploitation would allow threat actors to compromise users withRead More →