US Cyber Games announced today that Allied Esports will produce their US Cyber Games Draft Day taking place on October 5, 2021 at 2:00 PM EST. The even will simulcast the first-ever US Cyber Team draft on Allied Esports’ Twitch channel and TikTok live stream.
The U.S. government today announced new resources and initiatives to protect American businesses and communities from ransomware attacks. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), together with federal partners, launched a new website to combat the threat of ransomware.
The 2020 SolarWinds cyberattack is the worst cyberattack in our nation’s history. It is literally “beyond measure” at this point. In fact, the government may never know how badly the attack compromised our nation’s digital infrastructure.
Today, Facebook filed separate lawsuits in federal court against four individuals providing services intended to artificially inflate likes and followers of Instagram accounts, a practice known as fake engagement.
Although Activision has yet to comment on the incident, it’s common knowledge tonight that the company has sufferered a major data breach. The credentials were leaked publicly and first reported on Twitter.
The massive Twitter security breach that took over the accounts of President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Apple and more. The one that appeared to be the work of state-sponsored attackers or organization criminal organizations. Yeah, it was two teens and a 22-year-old from Florida.
It was pretty clear from the start that the hack against Twitter was more than a simple security breach of a handful of user accounts. The smash and grab attack struck celebrities, politicians, and billionaires including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kayne West, Binance and companies like Apple,…
If you or your ISP are running BIG-IP devices, they are almost certainly under active attack right now. On Wednesday, F5 Networks issued patches for a remote code execution vulnerability in BIG-IP devices. Within hours, security researchers reported targeted attacks against BIG-IP devices.
Researchers just announced the discovery of a UPnP vulnerability that impacts any UPnP device exposed on the Internet. The attack, called CallStranger (CVE-2020-12695), is being used for massive DDoS attacks , to exfiltrate data, and to scan ports from Internet-facing UPnP devices. How the CallStranger exploit works The attack takes advantage of a Callback header…
The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a division of the Russian military intelligence service, have been attacking email servers running the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA). Also known as “Sandworm,” this group has been hacking Exim servers since August 2019 by exploiting a critical…
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