Monthly Archives: April 2020

To be sure, contact tracing for infectious diseases is not new. This practice is vital for combating contagious viruses and has been around for a very long time, so why the controversy about it now? In bygone eras, if you were afflicted with an infectious disease, you would likely sit […]

Contact Tracing and Privacy

This entry was posted in COVID-19 Data Protection on April 29, 2020 by Steven Bowcut

One of the notable perks for a journalist covering the security industry is the occasional opportunity to test and review security products and solutions. Over the last couple of weeks, I have had the chance to try three products from Kingston Technology and I am happy to provide Brilliance Security […]

Device Review – Kingston DataTraveler and Nucleum Devices

This entry was posted in Data Backup Data Protection Product Review and tagged Kingston Technology on April 28, 2020 by Steven Bowcut

By Dan Baker, Content Writer with SecureTeam In recent months the word has been shocked by the spread of the Coronavirus which continues to dominate the news and forcing many people into a lockdown. In response to this crisis, many businesses are embracing working from home or working remotely in […]

8 Cybersecurity Tips For Working Remotely During The Coronavirus Lockdown

This entry was posted in COVID-19 Cybersecurity Guest Contributor Work From Home on April 24, 2020 by Editorial Staff

TechCrunch reported yesterday that New York payments startup, Paay, exposed millions of credit card numbers. The massive database storing millions of credit card transactions is now secure after spending close to three weeks exposed publicly to the internet. The report said, “because there was no password on the server, anyone could access the […]

Unsecured Paay Database Exposes 2.5m Card Transaction Records

This entry was posted in Breaking News Cybersecurity Expert Commentary on April 23, 2020 by Editorial Staff

New data from security firm Tessian found that 673 domains related to the $2T stimulus package have been registered since the U.S. government announced on March 19 it would issue checks. The domains use common questions or keywords (such as whereismystimuluscheck or COVID-19-stimulus), banking on the fact that many will […]

Over 670 Stimulus-Related Domains Registered Since U.S. Gov Announcement

This entry was posted in COVID-19 Cybersecurity Expert Commentary on April 22, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Following a routine iOS Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) investigation, ZecOps found a number of suspicious events that affecting the default Mail application on iOS dating as far back as Jan 2018. ZecOps analyzed these events and discovered an exploitable vulnerability affecting Apple’s iPhones and iPads. ZecOps detected multiple […]

Apple iPhone May Be Vulnerable to Email Hack

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Expert Commentary and tagged ZecOps on April 22, 2020 by Editorial Staff

Did you see the new report published by DivvyCloud? It was their 2020 State of Enterprise Cloud Adoption and Security report, and they released it in early April. This report shows that, as Thomas Martin, the founder of NephōSec, put it, “…in almost all cases, legacy IT processes and policies […]

New Report Shows Cloud Adoption Ambivalence

This entry was posted in Cloud Security Industry Report and tagged DivvyCloud on April 15, 2020 by Editorial Staff

The Mysk Blog reported this week that they tricked TikTok to connect to their fake server. They say they hijacked the timeline so the app shows spam videos about COVID19 A summary of the Mysk Blog, dated April 13, 2020, says, “TikTok app uses insecure HTTP to download media content. […]