Displaying items by tag: Malicious activity

Malicious activity targeting shoppers on Valentine’s Day has increased, warns cyber threat intelligence provider Check Point Research.

Forty-four percent (44%) of cloud privileges are misconfigured and users often have overly-broad privileges which are mis-assigned due to a security team oversight or malicious activity, according to cybersecurity company Varonis’ latest security risk report.

Hacking and surveillance are not necessarily bad, if the good guys are doing it...right?

Researchers from the CSIRO's Data61 digital arm say they have found that about half of the most popular websites are at risk of malicious activity because they depend on a number of third parties for ad provision, tracking and analytics services and content distribution networks.