Cyber Security News

January 2021

31.

IRS Deploys Bots to Streamline Procurement Processes

32.

Racism, Misinformation, Anti-worker Policies Are 'Undermining' the Internet: Mozilla

33.

New Cyber Crime Tool Can Build Phishing Pages in Real-time

34.

519 Data Breach Notifications Include 33 From Australian Government Entities

35.

How Ghost Accounts Could Leave Your Organization Vulnerable to Ransomware


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36.

Criminal Hackers Foiled By International Police Operation

37.

Many WordPress Sites Affected By Vulnerabilities in 'Popup Builder' Plugin

38.

Hezbollah's Cyber Unit Hacked Into Telecoms and ISPs

39.

Big Rise in Threats to Overload Business Networks: DDoS Attacks

40.

Don't Use It to Snoop on How Staff Are Feeling, Says Watchdog: Facial Recognition


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41.

Here's What Happened When We Were Hacked Back in 2019: Stack Overflow

42.

Pirated Themes and Plugins Are the Most Widespread Threat to WordPress Sites

43.

A Month After a High-level Cyber Attack, Charity Says Many IT Systems Are Still Offline

44.

Data Protection Biz Nears $1.4B Value After VC Investments

45.

DIU Scaling Up Commercial Cyber Threat Deception Platform


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46.

Emotet Botnet Disrupted in International Cyber Operation

47.

CISA Warns Of New Malware Threat to Vulnerable SolarWinds Orion Tech

48.

Netwalker Ransomware Site, Emotet Botnet Taken Down in Global Effort

49.

Stack Overflow Shares Technical Details on 2019 Hack

50.

A Blow to Cyber Crime, But Don't Drop Your Guard: End Of Emotet



51.

Nakivo to Use AWS Object Lock as Anti-ransomware Tool

52.

Justice Notches Major Win with Global Botnet Takedown

53.

Prolific Botnet Is Disrupted By Six-Nation Enforcement Team

54.

Law Enforcement Planning Emotet Cleanup Operation Following Botnet Takedown

55.

10-years-old Sudo Bug Lets Linux Users Gain Root-level Access



56.

Predictive Policing Is Just Racist 21st Century Cyber Phrenology

57.

OAIC Orders Home Affairs to Compensate Asylum Seekers Over Data Breach

58.

Singapore Must Return Data Control to Users to Regain Public Trust

59.

European Regulators Imposed €158m in GDPR Fines in the Last Year

60.

NetWalker Ransomware's Sites Seized By Law Enforcement

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