Topic: cybersecurity

Zoom users top 300 million as ban list grows

Zoom users top 300 million as ban list grows

Reuters
Posted at Apr 23 05:34 PM

Zoom video conferencing app's user base grew by another 50 percent to 300 million in the last three weeks, as the company fought to quell a backlash around security and safety that has seen a number of governments and firms ban its applications. Read more »

Elite hackers target WHO as coronavirus cyberattacks spike

Elite hackers target WHO as coronavirus cyberattacks spike

Raphael Satter, Jack Stubbs and Christopher Bing, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 24 10:47 AM

WASHINGTON/LONDON - Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month, sources told Reuters, part of what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks. Read more »

Hackers see opening as COVID-19 prompts mass work from home: experts

Hackers see opening as COVID-19 prompts mass work from home: experts

Steven Scheer and Raphael Satter, Reuters
Posted at Mar 19 11:11 AM

Government officials in the United States, Britain and elsewhere have issued warnings about the dangers of a newly remote workforce, while tech companies are seeing surges in requests to help secure out-of-office employees. At Cisco Systems Inc, for example, the number of requests for security support to support remote workforces have jumped 10-fold in the last few weeks. Read more »

MGM Resorts says data breach exposed some guests' data

MGM Resorts says data breach exposed some guests' data

Michael Levenson, The New York Times
Posted at Feb 20 11:33 AM

MGM did not disclose the number of customers affected, but Under the Breach, a firm that monitors cybercrimes and provides intelligence about potential data breaches to companies, said 10.6 million people were affected. Read more »

Huawei loses legal challenge of US federal purchase ban

Huawei loses legal challenge of US federal purchase ban

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 19 03:42 PM

Huawei filed the suit last year and claimed Congress had failed to provide evidence to support a law that stopped government agencies from buying its equipment, services, or working with third parties that are Huawei customers. Read more »

Bitcoin loses steam, keeps love from cybercriminals

Bitcoin loses steam, keeps love from cybercriminals

Nathaniel Popper, The New York Times
Posted at Jan 29 08:44 AM

The continuing growth of illegal transactions underscores the difficulties that Bitcoin has had in moving past its reputation as a refuge for scoundrels, even as Wall Street institutions have begun buying and selling the digital tokens. Read more »

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