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Australian consumers reported over AU$110,000 in monthly losses from NBN scams in the January-May 2019 period, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Compared to the average monthly losses of AU$38,500 in 2018, this is a near 300% increase. “People aged over 65 are particularly vulnerable, making the most reports and losing more than AU$330,000 this year. That’s ...

The data was compromised after AMCA’s payment system was breached on August 1, 2018, and remained vulnerable till March 30, 2019. AMCA has started notifying consumers whose credit card number, social security number or lab test order information may have been accessed. Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh is alerting Marylanders that their medical and other private information may have ...

The attack caused services outages primarily in South and North America. However, users in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Australia, and China also faced connection issues and network disruptions. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Telegram messenger caused service outages and connection problems for users at certain parts of the world. Which countries were impacted? ...

ASCO factory in Zaventem, Belgium was hit by a ransomware infection causing major downtime as most of the plants IT systems were infected. ASCO shut down production in factories across Germany, Canada, and the United States. What is the issue? ASCO, one of the largest airplane parts manufacturer, suffered a ransomware attack crippling production in factories across four countries. What ...

Adobe Adobe has released security updates to fix major vulnerabilities in its Adobe Flash, Adobe ColdFusion, and Adobe Campaign software products. The update for Flashpatches a critical use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2019-7845) that can lead to arbitrary code execution (ACE) attack. The ColdFusion updates also address three critical ACE vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-7838, CVE-2019-7839, and CVE-2019-7840) in the platform. On the other hand, seven vulnerabilities that existed ...

The vulnerability could allow an attacker to perform DoS on any Windows server such as IPsec, Internet Information Services (IIS), and Microsoft Exchange Server. The researcher found out that any program on the system that processes the X.509 digital certificate will trigger the vulnerability causing deadlock. A vulnerability researcher at Google, Tavis Ormandy, uncovered a vulnerability in the primary cryptographic ...

The ‘Triple Threat’ ransomware program had combined three different methods of attack to target the City’s network systems. This has forced the city’s email systems, land-line phones, and credit card services to shut down. The Lake City Police Department is investigating a ransomware attack on their city network systems that resulted in the shutdown of several emergency services. The ransomware ...

The spam campaign, which specifically targeted UK users, relied on DNS TXT records and redirected users to a fraudulent trading site. IP addresses associated with the campaign are likely linked with Necurs botnet. A new malspam campaign targeting UK users has been spotted in the wild. MyOnlineSecurity.com which came across a number of spam emails related to this campaign found ...

The scammers are leveraging phishing attacks to target users in this scam. The emails contain a link that exploits a common default feature of Google Calendar to include automatic addition and notification of unwanted events & invitations. Multiple cases of a sophisticated scam targeting consumers through unsolicited Google Calendar notifications has been observed recently. The main purpose of the scam ...

Fifty-six percent of consumers in North America and Europe are concerned about biometrics, and 81 prefer passwords for online payments due to security concerns, according to the report “Lost in Transaction: The end of Risk?”. Forty-eight percent of consumers have already authenticated a payment using some form of biometric authentication, rising to 54 percent in the UK. n mCommerce and biometric identification is marked, ...