< Newsletter 2024 August #2
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Google’s Online Search Dominance Is Ruled Illegal
Online Search Monopoly: A US Federal court has ruled that payments to make Google the default search engine on other browsers broke antitrust rules. read more
Dark Angels Score Record Breaking $75m Ransom
Extortion Pays: An undisclosed corporate victim has paid Dark Angel hackers $75 million in ransom, higher than any previous publicly known amount. read more
Disinformation On Social Media Inflames Anti-Immigration Riots
Modern Britain: Algorithms spreading fake news across social media have generated a chain reaction of anger & protest, leading to riots, following the murder of three children. read more
Millions Of US Voters Exposed Online
The exposed databases contained documents with lists of 4.6m available or active voters, absentees, early mail-in voting records & duplicate voters. read more
Cyber Security At The Paris Olympics:
More Than Just Gold Medals Are At Stake: The Games are a major target for cyber criminals, who see an opportunity to cause major disruption. By Steve Bradford read more
Websites Must Comply With New Security Certificate Rules
Google and Mozilla have lost confidence in Entrust and will soon no longer accept Digital Certificates from the company, which is one of the most widely used certification authorities. read more
Russian Cyberwar Methods Are Evolving
Russia's changing priorities may be an indication that cyber weapons are becoming a more effective alternative to their conventional weapons. read more
KnowBe4 Duped Into Hiring A North Korean Hacker
Laptop Mule Farm Espionage: North Korean threat actors attempting to penetrate US organisations by posing as remote IT workers. read more
App Security Testing: Understanding Technology Risks
The Pros & Cons Of Different Approaches: It is important to be familiar with the different approaches in app security to choose the right solutions. read more
ArtificiaI Intelligence At The Olympics
The 2024 Games in Paris are using a variety of AI tools across many applications, but the large amounts of data being generated risk being used for malicious purposes. read more
Cyber Crime Hothouses In Myanmar
Slave Labour: Online fraud in Southeast Asia continues to grow, with organised crime syndicates generating an estimated $64 billion annually. read more
Hackers Target Maritime Facilities With Malware
Sidewinder: An Indian APT is using spear-phishing to deliver malicious payloads to conduct espionage and trigger new chains of attack. read more
Building Resilience In A Changing Threat Landscape
Minimising Attacks: Businesses need to arm themselves with AI-enabled defences that are stronger than AI-enabled threats. By Duncan Bradley read more
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