What Is Vulnerability Scanning? Vulnerability Scanning is an automated process of identifying network, application, and security vulnerabilities. Vulnerability scanning is performed by the technology department of an organization or a third-party service provider. Vulnerability scanners […]
2020 – November 09 Breaches Reported The group Luxottica (who owns LensCrafters, Target Optical, and EyeMed) just recently disclosed a data breach that occurred on August 5, 2020. The breach came from their online appointment […]
Back on October 20, 2020, the United States National Security Agency (NSA) published a cybersecurity advisory about Chinese state-sponsored malicious cyber activity. This post we will be covering 5 of those vulnerabilities. “Since these techniques include exploitation […]
October 26, 2020 DeFi Offering $100k Reward A decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol is offering a $100k reward for help in contacting its alleged cyber-attacker. Tweet posted a week ago that Harvest Finance had allegedly been targeted by an unknown […]
Security researchers from Google Project Zero team has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Windows OS and that it is currently being exploited in the wild. Credited: Mateusz Jurczyk and Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero […]
October 19th, 2020 Vizom malware Researchers have encounter a replacement malware variant, dubbed Vizom, that’s being actively utilized in a lively campaign across Brazil. The malware is currently being used to compromise bank accounts via […]
Researchers at Stanford recently published a paper exploring the harvesting of demographic information from an unlikely source: Google Street View. By using a method of deep learning called “Convolutional Neural Networks”, the researchers successfully determined […]
A just-released pair of new surveys confirm that people still love their weak passwords. SplashData reveals the worst passwords of 2017, while EPC Group shares interesting password trends by gender, location, and other factors. The […]
SCS’s 2016 Cybersecurity Outlook In 2015, we witnessed a number of high profile cyberattacks and data breaches that affected a wide variety of industries. The swiss cheese defense of some of the nation’s largest healthcare […]